Monthly Archives: October 2012
One Gear Stage 1: Sponsored by iScrip
Tweet Day 01 – woooohooooooooooooo! And it begins! It is so surreal to think that we start riding on Friday. A literal year of planning coming to fruition… Friday’s stage takes us from the heart of the mother city out on the Dubanville road to Wellington. The stage is a 73 km long and is … Continue reading
Categories: Stage Sponsors, Stages
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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
Categories: BioDynamics, Training
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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
Categories: BioDynamics, Training
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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
Categories: GPS Tracks, Sponsors, Training, USN
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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
Categories: Sponsors, The Exercise Laboratory, Training
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BMX Direct to the rescue
Tweet I am getting fit and making sure that I am strong enough to complete the grueling 1500km but if a bike part were to fail and that ended up being the reason the One Gear dream was not realised it would be very sad. BMX direct to the rescue! The guys at BMX direct … Continue reading
Categories: BMX Direct, Sponsors
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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.
Categories: GPS Tracks, Training
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