Very cold tonight and I didn’t feel like going out and sprinting and getting torn calf muscles and catching a cold etc. Yet, I got my gear ready, saddled up and TREKked out into the darkness. Nobody there, so I did a lap warm up, and still nobody there. Did another lap thinking that maybe […]
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Tuesday Night Training 2008 10 28
Was feeling good tonight and went and did a 15km warm up by myself and then joined the Apex crew for their 10 laps when they arrived at 8:55pm. Seeing as I was warmed up already, I decided it was a good chance to win the first sprint, and I did. Yay! 2nd sprint I […]
Japan Cup Cyling 2008 Basso & Cunego battle!
Great race! This short clip is about 100m from the finish where Cunego is just overtaking Basso for the win. What a great day! It was raining when I left this morning and the 2 guys who were coming with me didn’t show at the meeting point. (guys in my team). They were waiting near […]
Saiko Nikkan Sports Cycling Course Training Video
Saiko Nikkan Sports Cycling Training Video This is my favorite race ever. Next November 9th will be my sixth attempt to WIN! So far I’ve managed a 3rd out of 5 attempts but the other attempts have been close to embarrassing. Here is a video clip I took of the course at just a bit […]
Saturday Castle
Did my usual castle ride. 20km each way. Lots of high school kids blocking the whole path on the way so came home on the opposite side. Japan Cup tomorrow. 43km in total.
Rain!
I couldn’t go to training tonight due to rain so went to the gym instead. Seeing as I tentatively entered the Tokyo Marathon I’ve added a tiny bit of running to my regime. Tonight I warmed up on the running machine for 20 minutes before hitting the other machines. abdominal crunch machine 45kgs X 15 […]
Yoruren October 21
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 […]
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.