Posted by: stevecaddy on: Sunday September 5, 2010
34km and 580m of climbing, (via Neil’s blog), but the most important things are best described with pictures anyway. This goes up: This goes down: Moody and Neil’s mate Andrew Downie joined us for a 2.5 hour joyride from the bottom of the Stockyards, up over the ever-awesome link track to swoop and giggle our way speeder-bike style [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Tuesday August 24, 2010
The thrusters/pushups WOD from earlier in the week did a number on my arms, to the extent that I spent the remainder of the week out of the gym. Claire has been on-again off-again sick, and sleep has been inconsistent so it didn’t seem like a bad idea (to bludge the 2nd half of the [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Monday July 19, 2010
Jumping straight into a solo six without any significant miles in the legs and only a modicum of metabolic conditioning might sound like a stupid idea, but the rationale was sound at the time: Without an excuse to get out and ride for six hours, getting on the bike for six hours is just never [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Monday July 12, 2010
When I agreed to come out for “a couple of hours of fun trails, easy pace” with Jim, Neil, BJ, Ash, I expected to get smashed. When the one guy I didn’t know, Brendan Spink, was introduced to me as “the guy who tears our legs of on TdB” I’ll admit I was nervous. As [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Tuesday May 25, 2010
In today’s road race I worked hard on the front, in the wind. Some others did too, but a few did the minimum. Last season it made me mad, this season I just wonder what racing looks like to those guys. They are often there at the finish contesting the sprint. Sometimes they post decent [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Tuesday February 23, 2010
I went into the race with a completely open mind. I liked my target time of 6-6.5 hours because a) it was respectable and, b) it meant I’d be off the bike in 6-6.5 hours, and that sounded like plenty. We got to Forrest with plenty of time to spare for registration, toodled into Apollo [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Thursday February 18, 2010
Maybe you know it? The first time I entered I was rendered to spectatorship and the best riders I knew crawl out of the forest, broken men. Monsters ordinarily, their faces were fixed into grimaces and thousand-yard stares well before the finish line. Jim pulled out, sat down and wouldn’t stop yabbering about umbrellas, such was [...]
Posted by: stevecaddy on: Wednesday January 20, 2010
Workout Just an easy-ish ride to work, via creche, with Claire in the trailer. About 35 minutes each way. Food 3 eggs in butter + olive oil, a plum, some blueberries and a few almonds Coffee Fruit salad and muesli w yoghurt (natural) Ferrero rochere chocolate Apple, almonds Almond cookie (it was free!) Bacon and [...]
