Denis
Warming-Up
- Nov 11, 2008
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Hi,
I'm from Dublin in Ireland. I spent 3.5 yrs near Kumagaya in Saitama and so far another 14 yrs here in Ome.
There are plenty of good cyclling routes near Ome, both on and off-road. For cycling and hiking, very few people know the area as well as me, but I still manage to discover new and interesting routes quite often. Some days I just cycle up and back every branch of a road to its end and back in search of any good trails or whatever. Some good medium-distance circuits/climbs include Umenoki-toge, Nokogiri-toge, Arima-toge, Nenogonnen, Higashi-Agano circuit. I have been planning on putting info on these and other routes on the web but haven't done so yet - will send an update if I ever do get that done!
I enter about 1 race a month on average - about half being Kodama-san's races (http://www.ne.jp/asahi/bicycle/race/). I'm a good friend of Kodama-san and now help with the organization of most of his bicycle events.
Let me know if you need a place in Ome to crash and I may be able to accommodate. We tend to go to bed early (before 10pm) and get up early (before 6am) so keep that in mind.
Hope to meet some of you in Ome soon!
Happy cycling!
Denis O'Connell
I'm from Dublin in Ireland. I spent 3.5 yrs near Kumagaya in Saitama and so far another 14 yrs here in Ome.
There are plenty of good cyclling routes near Ome, both on and off-road. For cycling and hiking, very few people know the area as well as me, but I still manage to discover new and interesting routes quite often. Some days I just cycle up and back every branch of a road to its end and back in search of any good trails or whatever. Some good medium-distance circuits/climbs include Umenoki-toge, Nokogiri-toge, Arima-toge, Nenogonnen, Higashi-Agano circuit. I have been planning on putting info on these and other routes on the web but haven't done so yet - will send an update if I ever do get that done!
I enter about 1 race a month on average - about half being Kodama-san's races (http://www.ne.jp/asahi/bicycle/race/). I'm a good friend of Kodama-san and now help with the organization of most of his bicycle events.
Let me know if you need a place in Ome to crash and I may be able to accommodate. We tend to go to bed early (before 10pm) and get up early (before 6am) so keep that in mind.
Hope to meet some of you in Ome soon!
Happy cycling!
Denis O'Connell