Gym (too much rain)

Having my 3rd long weekend in a row. School entrance exams tie up all the teachers with extra work so they cut a lot of days.  I am taking 3 students, a science teacher to a factory tomorrow that my father in-law organized for them to test some bio-diesel fuel they made out of pig […]

Wednesday Night Sprint Training

6 riders. 10 laps.3 wins, 2 seconds, 1 3rd, and the rest I didn’t contest. Not bad for me. Felt good although still having problems keeping with the pack around the course. I think it must be some psychological thing and I need to work on sticking with the group no matter what. I manage […]

96km

Finished work early around lunch time and met up with a friend at Abiko station and went for a roundabout ride. From home, down the Edo river to the Tone-Unga canal. Followed that to Tone river to Abiko and up to the station. From the station we headed straight down to the Tega-Numa (swamp) lake […]

Allan Davis Wins Tour Down Under

A story of determination. Allan has been in the TDU 11 times in a row. He had never won a stage there until this year and he won 3 of them this week. Enough time bonuses to keep my favorite Stuart O’Grady 25 seconds back in 2nd place. Lance Armstrong also using the race as […]

Walkies

Finding it hard to get out of bed on Sundays and I was late this morning for training. My two Airedales Lunar & Sora always want to go with me, so this morning I took them across the bridge to the halfway point for the Semas Cycling group and took a few photos with everybody. […]

Snowing

I really want to get some kms in on the bike but it’s just too cold. Friday. Gym Check in. Blood pressure: 139/81 Heart rate: 52 Weight: 85kg Warm-up on the running machine 58 minutes, while watching Police Academy Five. Machines: Abdominal Crunch: 50kg X 15 X 1 Back Extension: 55kg X 15 X 1 […]

Sunday Semas

Was cold as usual and hard to get out of bed. Arrived about 5 minutes late and not wanting to cool down too much I decided to do the warm up by myself and headed off back up the river alone. I held them rest off till just before Noda brodge which was 13km. At […]

Saturday Run

Just as I was about to go for my run today I noticed thatthe dogs had picked the lock to the front gate and gone for their walkies. My sons and I spent the next 45 minutes racing around on the shopping bikes looking for them. Luckily they had eaten no children, killed no cats […]

Roller Training Fitness Test

I have a roller similar to this one here. Got on the roller tonight; as for a long time I’ve only been using it to warm up at races. Having missed two night trainings this week due to a lack of members and cold I dusted off the cobwebs and put my new training plan […]