ACT time trail championships

In a moment of weakness, Tanya talked me into going in the ACT time trial championships on the weekend. She said it be good preparation for the Tour of Bright which I, also in a moment of weakness, have agreed to enter. As you would expect for someone who had no idea, no preparation and […]

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Autumn Series Finale 2014

During the autumn season in the Tarn (district #31) the FSGT, Federation Sportive et Gymnique du Travail, puts on a cycling road-criterium series. There are five races in the series each with a race distance of approximately 60km, for my category #5 anyway, with laps between 2 and 10km in length. Due to my travels […]

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Avoiding road works in France

Not wanting to lengthen our roadie ride an extra 30km around some inconveniently placed road works, we decided to take a hiking track up and over. Looks like the cyclocross season has started in earnest!

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Trail Building – Benny Style

 Fixing the hole Big Jeff made on Saturday when trying to stick close behind when we were riding Sideshow 🙂

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K is for Kowalski, Karr-Boom & Karma

After coming back to earth from our recent race in BC Canada, my usual Wednesday rides with Al have been dedicated to getting the trails ready for the 2014 Kowalski Classic. The forestry guys have been thinning in East Kowen this year and we had to do a lot of uncovering, re-routing and some new […]

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More than a cup!

So I raced another local roadie event, but this time it involved a 9+km loop with damn climbing. … i hate climbing … We 50+’ers had to complete 6 laps with a climb early and then again to the finish line. I sat in the whole first lap hiding from the climbs and it gave […]

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Hanoi Criterium

So I’ve been riding a bit around Hanoi since I’ve been here and fallen in with a good group largely of ex-pats, who ride regularly on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. We ride about 40-45km, average about 30-35kph, we drink coffee at the end of the ride – sound familiar so far? One of the Vietnamese […]

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More international exposure

3FIDI kit got snapped for a newspaper article, while I was participating in the local club’s first MTB event (un-timed) where I met the 2004 MTB world champion Kiara Bisaro, who had just moved to the area.

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