Cycling

Have sworn off end of year Christmas parties in order to get a head start on New Year’s Resolutions. For the last 3 days have been on fruit and veggies. (except for a little salami for dinner day 1 & 2). Lots of apples, pumpkin, spinach, tomatoes, onion, eggplant, hot water with ginger, garlic…and a

After not having used the home DVD player in a long long time, I thought it would be good to train on the roller while watching my favorite cycling DVD. 30km of serious rolling is about as much as I can bare and that’s a good distance for my Hitachinaka training for June. Nasu: Summer

After riding to work yesterday and coming home through a chilling wind, I didn’t feel like going to training again two hours later. I just wanted to thaw my feet out in a hot bath and go to bed. That would have been an extra 40 or so more kilometers for my mileage. Work today

But I don’t care about any of that, and here’s why. Twenty minutes into my test drive I pulled round a leafy bend, enjoying the birdsong – and spotted those damned Spider-Man cyclists. Knowing they wouldn’t hear me coming, I stepped on the gas, waited until the split second before I overtook them, then gave