Food - the leading killer in the Western world

If you care about what you out in your body and the effects it has on you, please watch this talk.

Sloan Wilson quote

"The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride a bicycle. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realisation that this is what the child will always need can hit hard."

Ride postponed

The alarm sounded at 4.50am and my body would not respond. My training schedule had be down for a slow 15km this morning - oops. And I can't cycle tomorrow morning as I have an early start with Gr11 Visual Arts to go and visit the Warhol Exhibition in Shanghai... Saturday morning, then, will be my next opportunity and will have to be another fairly long one to catch up.

On a more positive note, my new Boardman Team Carbon is delivered tomorrow! Yey!

70km - but it really should have been easier than it was. Endoftermitis?

My new bike

Hopefully this is now sitting in its box waiting for me to arrive in France and unpack it. I have started a programme to train for a Century ride (that's 160km to us metric users) and this will be the tool of my training in France. I probably won't make the final ride in France though, and will complete that on my Specialised Tarmac 2009. I also just MVP-ed in MapMyRide, and can now autogenerate routes (including hill specifications and distances) from my front door, using GoogleMaps. How cool is that? Planning at some stage to to Saulzais to St.Avis...

I am exonerated!

Course Map

I've just upgraded my MapMyRide app to include all sorts of fancy gizmos to motivate me to train more seriously. I've set myself a 10 week goal of riding a 160km ride - The Century! (in miles)

This is my morning training route. Not sure how it will show up, or if it gives times etc, so I shall see...

View this Course on MapMyRide