Mt Tsukuba New Year’s Ride

Today’s route: Today around 25 members of Semas Racing did our annual New Year’s ride to a temple. ‘hatsumoude‘. The last three years we had been going to Narita-san but it is always very crowded and not easy to park 30 or 40 expensive bicycles safely. This year we put forward different ideas and Mt. […]

New Year’s Resolution

Usually it is to lose weight but that usually fails so I’m going to ambush that one with this one. 12000km for the year. That’s 1000km per month. That’s 33.707865168539325842696629213483km per day. Today was the annual New Year’s Day family get together at the in-law’s house. That means partaking in the traditional ‘osechi’ New Year’s […]

Last Post For 2009

I have been extra lazy this month so I can attack 2010 with no excuses. My yearly mileage tally was lower than the previous 2 years and because of that I haven’t added the last months figures to the total. My PDA that was recording this had also not been used much and the battery […]

Seo Festival 2009

Even though I wasn’t going to race, I was going to ride. Up bright and early and took a leisurely 58km ride to get to Shimoufusa Friendly Park race venue. Here is the route I took This is the first Seo Festival that I watched as a spectator and not a participant. Having been dropped […]

MTB in Noda 2009

On Sunday, I took the Fondriest down the Edo to the Tone canal and then across to the Tone river to where the annual Noda MTB race was held. For the last four years I’ve wanted to go and watch or even participate. After watching this year, I may even give it a try next […]

Piranha Golf In Japan

On Saturday I had the honored pleasure to represent Piranha Golf of Australia at the Kouyou Cup Autumn Golf tournament. (as I mentioned in yesterday’s post). Here are some pics of the prize winners. 1st: Martin Phillips (Set of Piranha irons + golf bag) 2nd: Grant Fleming (Set of Piranha wedges) 3rd: Joachim Hinne (Piranha […]

Sunday Video Training

After playing a dismal game of golf yesterday was in no mood to do anything physical today so I took the shopping bicycle across the bridge to test out the new video camera. Today is the day that I normally race in Saiko for the Nikkan Sports Nakano Memorial race. I’ve done the last 5 […]

Rides of Late

Have not been keeping this blog up to date with my rides because I haven’t really been riding much and have the Autumn riding blues where I tend to get slack because it’s starting to get cold. Bought a new set of rain jacket and cycling rain pants today to force me to ride to […]

Airedaling

Over the last 3 weeks I haven’t ridden much and spent a bit more time with the dogs. Here Sora and Sky had a father and son’s day at a grooming get together on October 4th and then a dog show and sport’s day last Sunday the 25th. Sky’s sister Momo came to both events […]

Watarase

With the annual Tour De Chiba on this weekend training was cancelled. A lot of them went on the night bus to ride today’s stage. As I bought my bike to save money I don’t actually like paying to ride unless it’s a race fee. Instead I did my own tour of Chiba today. I […]