Running a Marathon

I love my cycling. I hate running. I’ve never liked running. I did the Great South Run in the UK in 2002, untrained, unfit and overweight, but managed it. In fact it was a bit of a family event with my sister and brother-in-law running it too.
OK, so we weren’t International runners and we weren’t [...]

Mr Grumpy goes to the hills

Today was another venture back into the hills with Craig. I was feeling up for it and chose a route off MapMyRide that another local cycling group are intending to ride tomorrow (no I won’t be doing it again tomorrow!). I uploaded the route onto my new Garmin 705 (that’s another post) so we could [...]

Weekend rides

Saturday
I was going to go for a group ride on Saturday morning with South Perth Rouleurs, but a good few beers, a rough night’s sleep and what felt like arctic conditions put an end to that. I decided instead to just head out for a short ride on my own at my own pace. Well, [...]

Quietly planning

I’ve not updated here much lately. Reason? I’m still off the bike. 2 weeks off in fact. I believed it was a saddle sore that was keeping me off and by the end of last week I was definitely feeling a bit better with no signs of soreness just sitting in the saddle.
So yesterday I [...]

Riding with a hangover (not me)

Met up with Craig again today for a ride around the river. I went for a few beers after work on Friday and after ‘tweeting’ a pic of my beer, Craig took the P*** about my ‘carb loading’. Well this morning was payback time! Craig also went out for beers, more beers than me, waaay [...]

Saddle sores

It’s my own fault. I felt some soreness last weekend, but thought it was just a little too much time in the saddle so carried on riding. By Wednesday it was feeling really sore. I took Thursday off and arranged a Good Friday ride with friends up into the hills.
Come Friday the discomfort was pretty [...]

Cyclogz – Review

Continuing my series of reviews of solutions for training logs, this review is of Cyclogz. Like BikeJournal it’s web based, but is a new kid on the block. Firstly I should point out that developer Subbu Allamaraju declares the site as still alpha so this should be taken into consideration when reading this review and [...]

Cyclemania Group Ride

Group ride with Cyclemania around the Swan river

Training properly

For ages I’ve been meaning to start training properly. My current regime is just cycling to commute 4 times a week taking Fridays off. I try and get in a longer ride on Saturday mornings either with Cyclemania group 2 or a longer solo ride and then ride a slow short ride on Sunday mornings [...]