McEntyre of 野田市

Tuesday Morning Training

The puppies woke me up at 4 a.m and after attending to them there was no excuse for me to miss the Tuesday morning ‘new’ training group. Last week I went straight back to sleep and felt guilty. I arrived about 5 minutes early (5:15)by lazy car and there was nobody there. Then they all […]

Ride Ride Golf

Had a short 25km over to Fukuda to check out another secret training course and will probably go this Tuesday morning for a 5:30 a.m hard work out. This morning’s training run was pretty much as usual. Still lots of rape seed flowers out and millions of insects buzzing around them, up my nostrils and […]

Puppies Day 18

Last night’s training really burnt me out. Feels like a bad head cold…. Didn’t do much today but watch TV, sleep and look after these wonderful dogs.

Tuesday Night Hanami

I woke up at 4:15a.m this morning with the intention of going to my first morning run in Fukuda but within about 5 seconds decided to go back to sleep. Feeling guilty about that most of the day I did a lot. Well, a lot more than I usually do. 1: Home center. More pebbles […]

Sunday Morning Hisashiburi

Today was my first Sunday morning in a long time. Last week was puppy sitting, the week before was Tokyo Marathon, the weeks before then were running or raining. I got the puppies weighed and checked before 6:30, had the bike ready by 7 and was at the start right on time at 7:30. My […]

Eyes Opening

Tonight three of the puppies had their eyes open and some of them were walking rather than squirming around like slugs with legs. Here are the daily weigh ins. Every morning while Lunar is out for a toilet break I take their weights. Girls Green/Gold 364 402 428 460 480 510 560 600 645 690 […]

Tuesday Night Training

Finally managed to slip away from puppy duties and get on the bike. It was a fast paced training. I did 10kms before the others arrived then we started about 9:30pm. One guy escaped on the first lap and we never caught him. We tried pretty hard to catch him too. Considering I hadn’t been […]

Day 12 Puppies

All is well.

Day 10 Lunar & Sora & Puppies

The puppies are usually sleeping and not too active yet, so to liven up these daily youtube clips I’ve got Sora to do a few Beckham impersonations and Lunar is doing a Vitoria Spice one. Not sure when I’ll be able to post a cycling message again. Hopefully tomorrow night if I resume training.

Airedale Puppy Tail Docking

Well, I was quite surprised at how painless and easy this was. Our local vet wanted to charge us 25000 yen ($250)per puppy for the procedure and they had never done an Airedale before. We shopped around and decided to go to Sora’s (father) mother’s vet who did each puppy for 7000 yen ($70). That […]