I turned up early as usual and did 2 laps before anybody else arrived and had a Zero Coke. Then there were 2 or 3 Apex riders who had also turned up and I started out at 9:00pm and did 2 laps with them at their usually very very fast pace. Most of them appear […]
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Asaren October 19th
Today there was a nice cool Northerly blowing which helped me get to the starting point but made the warm up back up the river a bit of a challenge. Today a lot of our faster riders went to Gunma for a 100km race. I therefore had a go in the fast group sprint from […]
Saturday October 18th
Today’s recovery ride after a hard work week, Wednesday gym and Thursday night training with the Apex team I was a little burnt out. 20km to Sekiyado into a head wind. Trying to keep my cadence above 100rpm. After warming up was not too hard to go at about 110rpm. There were many cyclists at […]
Sekiyado Castle
Sekiyado Castle I almost ride here every Saturday morning or whenever I have time to do a 40km TT. It’s exactly 20km from my front door, straight up the Edo river to the end where the Tone river meets.
Noda to Hakuba (report)
I survived. All I can say is it was HELL ON WHEELS! Woke up at 3.a.m. One glass of orange juice. Left at 4a.m. I started up the river and visibility was good; about 50 or 60m with lots of light bouncing off the clouds. Was in no hurry as it was a bit cold, […]
Noda to Hakuba
If I get all my work done by Wednesday morning and the weather is good, I plan on a long ride to Hakuba. Will be a good test for my Garmin 705. First I need to buy a battery USB adaptor to make sure it won’t go flat when I’m lost in the mountains at midnight in the […]
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 […]