Today, as usual running late for training after feeding the dogs so I did a little 5km warm up on the rollers before heading out into the cold. Some electrical tape repair work on my shoe covers kept my toes warm today. I ordered a new pair of shoe covers on amazon the other day but they are taking their time. They may even have to wait till next year before they get used. If tape can fix the Apollo 13 then it should be able to fix a lot of my old cycling gear. And all of my stuff is starting to look on the ‘it’s about to break’ side.

Joined up with the crew and had our break photo at Shinzakaya.

A lot of the super fast guys weren’t there today so I opted to go in the first group. I was dropped though at about the 4km mark after a second ‘slow down’ section. I’m not very good at getting my momentum back after losing it more than once. Chasing all the light weight guys from a dead start really puts my heart rate over the limit.

Forgot to keep switching my garmin back on after stops today so the records may be a bit haywire. Will upload them in an hour or so.

After a cup of hot chocolate and a chai tea I was feeling raring to go and headed off to Tokyo Bay by myself to make sure I did over 100km today to get my daily average back to near where it should be.

Stop one, after following the Edo river all the way on the Western bank to Kasairinkai Park
When my brother came to see me the first time we were both in Japan together I took him here with my wife (then girlfriend). That was over 18 years ago now and it hasn’t changed all that much.

Was nice to smell the sea air.

Then across the bridge to Disneyland where I did a lap of both Disney Sea and Disneyland and then headed home up the other side of the river via Gyotoku.

A bit of a headwind on the way home just to make sure I was working out and not rolling along.
Some sporadic Garmin data:
Today’s mileage: 115km
Yearly total: 508.52km
Daily average: 29.912941176470588235294117647059km
Daily average goal: 33.71km