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16 turned up tonight which is a record. Fine weather and Hitachinaka brought them all out of the woodwork. Almost everybody with their race deep rimmed wheels. (me included). I also dropped my handle bars down to the lowest possible position tonight. (Raised the seat a centimeter yesterday). This seemed to help with the cornering […]

While waiting for the team to turn up for training last night I squeezed in a 20km warm-up. With a few new riders and enough starters to make two teams we picked two aces and let them pick their teams. We warmed up for 3 laps and then put about a 1.5km gap between the […]

Woke up at 4a.m looking forward to a special team training run amongst the Chiba boso hills only to hear the rain pelting down outside. Back to bed and a quick wink and it was 8:30a.m. Still raining but not as heavy. I got my cycling gear on anyway determined to go for a ride […]

Second week of Friday night football. 3 of us doing the Wednesday ight course with the Tuesday night sprint finish. I had 2 cars block the lanes on my lead out tonight that ensured a win. There was no room for anybody to pass. A 47km good pre-race ride. Not sure if I’ll wake up […]

The full ranking for Monocle’s Quality of Life 2009 is: But they don’t have good sushi in Zurich or Copenhagen… 1. Zurich 2. Copenhagen 3. Tokyo 4. Munich 5. Helsinki 6. Stockholm 7. Vienna 8. Paris 9. Melbourne 10. Berlin 11. Honolulu 12. Madrid 13. Sydney 14. Vancouver 15. Barcelona 16. Fukuoka 17. Oslo 18. […]

This will be my third attempt at the D class 30km race on this course. Two years ago I was quite unfit and took the lead just before the last bend and had absolutely no power left and got dropped in the last km. Last year I was fit and in the pouring rain panicked […]

Got up early enough to get in a quick 50km before training BUT after getting all the dogs fed and secure I was running 15 minutes late. At Shinzakaya where we take a photo and divvy up into teams to go back I downed a can of Mountain Dew. Was going to get a tea […]

C-san, A-san, K-san and myself had a special light run tonight. C-san and I started about 30 minutes early and had a nice warm-up. 54km for myself for the night. Now 2 beers and the Dauphine on TV. Long weekend too…

Tonight’s 61st Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, is 42,4km and that’s about exactly what I just rode for the Wednesday night sprint group. I had jelly legs all day today after last night’s effort and was hoping it was going to rain so I could go to the gym or stay home. A call from Cab […]