Training
Russel picks up a scent
Tweet I could see the glint in Russel’s eye as he realised that this was his last chance to go to work on my legs! I have mentioned before his sadistic ways; well he said we would take it easy today and he would just do some “releases”. Ooooh ah ah! He carried on shooting … Continue reading
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Last Bio Session
Tweet I keep saying the word “last”! We leave for Cape Town on Monday and suddenly this is all becoming very real. I am off to go see Russel in about 30 minutes time and it will be our last session. He is going to help me with strapping and teach me the right … Continue reading
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Last Big Training Ride
Tweet So Russel (Biodynamics) has told me that I need to start tapering from next week so I went out for one last big ride this morning. I got in 80km which is about 10km more than what we will need to average on a daily basis! Holy crap, as I wrote that with my … Continue reading
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Second Vo2 Max test results just in
Tweet I just got my results from the guys at the Exercise Physiology Lab for my second Vo2 max test. They have done a comparison to show improvements from the last time I did the test with them in April. And yes…there were improvements! Hopefully this bodes well for a successful 1500km ride approaching fast! skreeeeeeeeeeeeek! Vo2 … Continue reading
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MB Training Ride
Tweet They say you can multiply the off road KM’s ridden by 2 to get the equivalent on road distance (obviously – so if you do the math this was a 93.64 KM training ride – Just saying! And yes “they” are the scientific community and its all very scientific and…stuff.
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Mo Training – Some stats
Tweet For those of you who are numbers geeks like me you might enjoy seeing some of my training stats. If you have a gander at the last chart you will see that I have done 1300 km’s this year…now I have to do that and more in in under 25 days – skreeeeeeeeeeeeeek:
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This is for real
Tweet Before I start this post I need to qualify that this is a true story and in no way fabricated to punt my sponsor. In other words this is not a cheesy sponsor pressured product placement post (how’s that alliteration). I went riding on Saturday for the first time in my new First Ascent … Continue reading
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The Black Hole
Tweet I grew up in Rivonia but for some reason the neighboring suburb of Bryanston has always been a black-hole to me. To this day I still get lost driving through there. So when I ventured in on my bike this weekend it was with a little trepedation – no not really. But I did find myself riding … Continue reading
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In the mind
Tweet Its not like I have made some kind of breakthrough in the field of psychological research by saying that your perception of a distance, or more accurately, how long it seems to cover that distance, is affected by your state of mind before you set out but this has become more and more apparent … Continue reading
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An Evil Laugh
Tweet For all his evil laughing I have to say that Russel from BioDynamics has done some crazy good work with me. I rode over 85 km this past weekend and my gammy knee is feeling stronger than ever. This post is meant to be a little peek into Russel’s creative, although marginally sadistic world … Continue reading
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