Tag Archives: Road Cycling

Completing the 500km Festive Week Challenge

Continuing on from the last post, today I complete the Rapha 500km Festive Week Challenge. Sixth ride I got guilt tripped by my wife into spending time with her.  This is all part of the challenge that I talked about … Continue reading

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500km Festive Week Challenge

A week ago I clicked a button on Strava to accept a challenge – to ride 500km anywhere and everywhere around Adelaide, Australia, between the 23rd and 31st December 2011.  As if riding 500km within 8 days isn’t enough of … Continue reading

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Back in form

After a not particularly good race performance on Sunday, and a not so consistent training regime since our Queensland holiday broke my momentum, I’m pumped to get back into it and break my plateau of the last few weeks. Tonight … Continue reading

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Hiking and Windy Cycling

Yesterday Morven and I went for a walk part way up to Mt Lofty.  At the point where the first one of us had had enough, we sat and watched some Rainbow Lorikeets. Today I’ve been for a windy road … Continue reading

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120km of pain, falling trees, and magpie attacks

I’ve just did a road ride of epic proportions, although it wasn’t really supposed to be. It started off as a beautiful day, sun shining, although slightly overcast.  I got some good times climbing up to Lobethal, where I stopped … Continue reading

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