baustin
Warming-Up
- Jan 30, 2008
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I'm Ben from Sydney, Australia.
I've been cycling since the middle of 2006. I got into it because a bunch of people at work were doing it and they never stopped talking about it. I soon found out why and now my wife suffers the same fate.
While in Sydney, my steady weekday ride was from Centennial Park to La Perouse and back via the beaches (Maroubra, Coogee, Bronte). Sometimes would throw in a City to Surf type ride for variety. Weekends were sometimes a combination of the two, other times ride out to Akuna Bay, West Head etc, and sometimes to the Royal National Park. No more than about 100km.
I moved to Tokyo in January 2008 and have been struggling a bit with finding good routes for cycling. I need to find them quickly though as my big plan for the year is to go to the Dolomites in May with that same crew from work. Most of them are super fit (including an ex-pro triathlete), so I badly need to get some hills under the wheels.
I'm quite large. 193cm and 88kgs - so not the ideal hill climbing physique. Need to drop at least 3-4 more kgs before the Dolomites so yoroshiku onegaishimasu ne! Work me hard on those hills!
My association with Japan goes back to 1987, when I was an exchange student in Kanagawa for a year. I then came back in 1993 as a university exchange student in Tokyo for a year.
Better stop talking or I'll have nothing to say on the road ...
I've been cycling since the middle of 2006. I got into it because a bunch of people at work were doing it and they never stopped talking about it. I soon found out why and now my wife suffers the same fate.
While in Sydney, my steady weekday ride was from Centennial Park to La Perouse and back via the beaches (Maroubra, Coogee, Bronte). Sometimes would throw in a City to Surf type ride for variety. Weekends were sometimes a combination of the two, other times ride out to Akuna Bay, West Head etc, and sometimes to the Royal National Park. No more than about 100km.
I moved to Tokyo in January 2008 and have been struggling a bit with finding good routes for cycling. I need to find them quickly though as my big plan for the year is to go to the Dolomites in May with that same crew from work. Most of them are super fit (including an ex-pro triathlete), so I badly need to get some hills under the wheels.
I'm quite large. 193cm and 88kgs - so not the ideal hill climbing physique. Need to drop at least 3-4 more kgs before the Dolomites so yoroshiku onegaishimasu ne! Work me hard on those hills!
My association with Japan goes back to 1987, when I was an exchange student in Kanagawa for a year. I then came back in 1993 as a university exchange student in Tokyo for a year.
Better stop talking or I'll have nothing to say on the road ...