Omiya Keirin ‘Try the Bank’

Last time was 2006 when I did the 500m TT and 1000m TT. Today I did the same plus the 4000m scratch group race. Results: 500m TT 43.2 seconds….25th out of 38. 1000m TT 01.25.80…29th out of 53 which was exactly 1.38 seconds slower than what I did in 2006. Very disappointed. 4000m scratch race. […]

Edo River Flooding!

Been a lot of rain lately and the river next to where we live (Edo river) has risen quite a lot. It usually gets this high about 3 times a year. I took my MTB for a spin on Friday to the other side from where we live and took a few pictures of the […]

Japan is a Clean country!

The sign says ‘Don’t Dump Garbage’. This is near where I train every Tuesday night and as funny as this is not!!! People often break rules just to show off their arrogance and stupidity. I can never understand how these people think or why they have to show off a bit of anarchy. Who are […]

Garmin Edge 705 GPS Unit

My last blog was about my beloved Polar 720Si. I’ve now gone to the other side of the fence to try out the Garmin 705. Why didn’t Polar come up with a GPS model earlier? I want a GPS so I can go out and take routes that I would never have dreamed of and […]

Polar Heart Rate Monitors

I have a Polar 720Si that I have been using for some years now. Check out the graphs of my Tuesday night training and the Hakuba hill climb. The graphs speak for themselves mostly and I use similar graphs of race data (races I’ve already done once) and simulate the same heart intensity on my […]

Hakuba Hill Climb

Took the long weekend up to Hakuba with my son, dog & brother from Singapore. There is a nice hill climb from central Hakuba up the old route 406 towards Nagano. It’s only about 13km to the top from the house we stay in and there is about 8 or 9km of climbing involved to […]

Hitachinaka Tour Du Japon D class 30km

I was wet and cold and started my sprint about 300 to 400m too early. After escaping the bunch I ran out of gas about 50 to 100 m before the finish line and finished in the middle of this group 3.6 seconds away from 1st place. Stooopid me. All I had to do was […]

Half year almost down….

Well I had a slow start to the year and didn’t have enough miles on the clock in Jan or Feb. In Feb not feeling the best of health I joined the gym. Weighing in at an unbeleivable 95kgs at gym orientation I decided that that was enough. I began to rebuild myself. I hit […]

Hakuba

4 days up in Hakuba Nagano. I took my 2 dogs a bbq and my MTB up to Hakuba for a few days while my students were doing their mid term tests. Had my first hill climb up Route 406 that is the old road from Hakuba over the mountains to Nagano city. Was easier […]

2008 Points Race Shimofusa

My results were fair. Race one. 2nd (personal best). A guy who broke away and won this race won 4 out of the 5 races for the day. I wasn’t going to catch him but I tried and I made ground on him. I made my big break away with about 600m to go and […]