Day two for us at the Tour Down Under began under grey skies, and with the hint of a cooler day. En route to the markets once again for our days supplies we came across one team’s stenciling efforts: Arriving in Unley forty minutes before the start we got to see a little more rider…
Greetings from the city of churches! We got in to Adelaide last night, having missed the first two stages of the TDU, but with a plan of action for seeing the best of the next four stages. After some inspired food shopping at the Adelaide markets this morning (last week’s heatwave has made for some…
Just back from watching the Nationals Road Race with Katrina, Benny and Simon. After surviving some weird google navigation failures, which saw us dodging cows on back roads, we made it out to the course: We spent most of the day on the Mt Buninyong climb and around the top of the course. Katrina and…
Following on from my previous post, I’ve learned a few things in the post-crash recovery phase of the past few weeks. This post has a wound photo, so if you don’t want to see that, scroll up from the bottom to the ‘Keeping Focus’ subheading. Healing Wounds Despite the fracture, the most aggravating physical issue…
After being forced off the bike with injury for the first time, the past couple of weeks have been a learning experience. I’ve learned how to manage the post-crash experience, from insurance issues to wound management, to keeping focus on a return to riding. If you ride hard, you’re going to hit the floor at…
I received a comment, that the blog painted an interesting picture of where I’d ridden. Using the map on the activities page of VeloViewer, I was able to put together the following image, encompassing all my rides, since I began recording them. Unlike Strava’s heat maps, all rides are given equal visibility on the VeloViewer…
2013 was a good year on the bike … 2013 stats at a glance (excluding trainer): Rides: 215 Total distance: 13,386 km Total elevation: 234,500 m Total time: 20d 10:08:14 2013 race stats*: Races: 7 Race wins: 2 Top Tens: 6 *8, 3 and 7 if you count the Warrandyte Festival TT 2014 is going…
On Sunday December 22, I woke early to the sound of rain on the sheet metal awnings outside our bedroom windows. The night before I’d suggested to Katrina that I might race the last crit of the year, organised by Northern Cycling out at Campbellfield, but now I was sure it would be called off.…
A summary of events in late November – early December. First time in the Dandenongs. After focussing on racing every weekend through October and November, I decided to take some time out and just have some fun. Since I’d taken up road cycling all my training had been done in the Kinglake Ranges, Nillumbik and…
I’d started racing at the end of the club road racing season. There were other CA / CVic road races I could have gone in, like Stratford to Dargo and the Tour of Bright, but I was considering these too late to prepare for mentally. As the clubs turned to crit racing I figured I…
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