This article mainly focuses on what to carry for a long day in the saddle. We’ll assume you’ve done your training, your bike is ready and you’ve done suitable carbo loading the night before. Firstly I’ll say there are plenty of ways to prepare but this is just from my experience having done the 165km, the 207km event and this year I’ll be doing the...
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Welcome to my King of the Mountains V2.0, now with improved elevation calculations thanks to some good folk on the Vikings cycling forums I discovered how extract the data from Garmin TCX files so I could graph the actual data and not rely on the rather clumsy screen grabs. In addition I have used Tableau to graph the data, which allows you to select and...
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To start with, what a great weekend of racing that was. As usual a big thanks to the Canberra Cycling Club, Jason Parkes and all the volunteers for putting on another great tour. Even though this was the lowly D2 race, the grading was just right which made for good competitive racing. Saturday Stage 1 – was a nice 79km stage (which ended up...
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For those of you lucky enough or mad enough to be going to the 2009 National Masters Road Championships here is a break down of the competitors for the events and the grades. For those you who are from the flatter parts of Australia you are not going love the course for the Road Race. Come to think of it the ITT course isn’t much...
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Firstly let me say a big thank you to the organisers and volunteers of the tour of Canberra, they did an excellent job and all grades were well looked after. Well from my view in D2 all I can say is I am so over the three sisters climb,3 times in 2 days is enough for me. Having to haul my 90kg body up those...
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