Musings from a financial translator in Tokyo (and now London)
Posted in Cycling on May 20th, 2010
Story here. Wow. He spends 4 years telling everybody he’s innocent, blames everybody – the media, the French, doping officials – for making him a pariah in his sport…so now his course of action is some lame attempt at making himself feel better by throwing his entire sport under the bus? Including all the people [...]
Posted in Cycling on Apr 5th, 2010
Well, I did the London Phoenix Easter Classic today. My goal was to do the 112km (about 70 miles) in under 5 hours. As it turned out, I did 112km in under 4:40 – good enough for ‘bronze medal’ standard. However, my total ride turned out to be around 140km. Our group missed one of [...]
I’m doing a 112km ride tomorrow – the third annual London Phoenix Easter Classic. It’s been a long time since I’ve ridden more than 50 miles. I did about 40 miles last summer with one of the near by clubs, but it was a fairly easy 40 miles (and included a 20-minute break when one [...]
Posted in Cycling on Dec 11th, 2009
I loved watching Brad Wiggins last year at the TdF, and now the UK has its first-ever elite-level cycling team, Team Sky. Now Wiggins has left Garmin for Team Sky, which is a great signing for Britain’s fledgling team. Wiggins might find it harder next year since he’ll be a known factor – teams will mark [...]
Posted in Cycling on Jul 27th, 2009
Posted by top 10 thoughts from this year’s Tour de France on my cycling blog.
Check out the not-so-exciting results of my first bike race on my cycling sub-blog. (Warning – for serious geeks only).
The first part of the Tour de France is over – the first portion of the race generally lasts up to the first rest day, which was Monday. It was a fascinating first week – lots of drama, an amazing time trial competition, Lance Armstrong just missing the yellow jersey by less than a second, [...]
If you don’t win, but you tried your best… You’re still a loser.
Posted in Cycling on Jun 26th, 2009
Heard about this on a recent FredCast. Was expecting this to be essentially one big commercial for Cervelo – and while it partially was, it was much more than that. Really interesting and beautifully shot, especially if viewed in HD: Part one: Beginnings Part two: San Diego Sling Part three: California, Part One Part four: [...]
Posted in Cycling on Jun 16th, 2009
Lots of interesting stories to this year’s Tour de France. – Alejandro Valverde, a great climber and considered to be a contender for the general classification title, might not be allowed to start the TdF due to a two-year ban on racing Italy for alleged doping involvement. He was never tried, never found guilty, and [...]