The alarm went at 3.50am this morning, I rolled over and thought about going back to sleep. Sometimes training for Tour de Cure can be a real chore. By the end of the day your eyes are hanging out of your head, I am nodding off in the office chair about 4.30pm. But I got up, because I have made a commitment to ride the ride, to do the kilometers, …Read more
This weekend I wanted to get a couple of good long rides under my belt. You need long slowish rides to get your endurance levels high enough to do the whole Tour de Cure ride so I was going to do a couple of long rides for the weekend. Well it was a great idea but the temperature this weekend was between 30 degrees and 35 degrees which probably isnt …Read more
I was a bit sick this week with a bit of a flu so riding was quite hard work. I only went out once during the week and did 30km and come home again but over the weekend I managed to do two quite good rides. Saturday I did just over 100km and on Sunday I did just under 100km so around 230 km for the week. Not the best …Read more
There is one big resolution for this years riding and thats to get to the Tour de Cure in great shape. I have managed to have a great December training run almost doubling the efforts of the last few years prior to the Tour so that should set me up pretty well for the lead up. I have signed up for the 3 peaks ride again and that is really …Read more
Well I have started training for the Tour de Cure already !! I know that it sounds like the end of April is a long way away but as I write this its only 145 days to go till the Tour de Cure 2013 starts !! So last week I took part in a challenge on www.strava.com that challenged its members to ride 500km between Christmas and New Year. I …Read more
I got the official nod yesterday to say that I have been accepted for the 2013 Tour de Cure. When I started my Tour de Cure journey nearly 4 years ago little did I know that I would be getting ready for my 4th Tour. Over the last 4 years I have raised around 60,000 to help find a cure for Cancer and look forward to raising another 20,000 this …Read more
I have just come back from participating in this years Tour de Cure Queensland Country Kids tour. The whole experience of getting out and riding with this small but passionate group of people was fantastic. I will update this page shortly with some photos and video.
Bus day – Yapoon to Airlie Beach’ In the last couple of tours we have not had a bus day but today we are sitting on the bus doing about 400 km. As I sit here writing this I am looking out at the cane fields and counting myself lucky that we have a day off to rest. I am not sure if it will be of benefit or if …Read more
Biloela – Yapoon – 187km After the last two days everybody was a bit second hand so today was going to be a challenge. To my surprise my body felt pretty good this morning, my legs were ok but my bum was still pretty sore. I was thinking that this day would be a tough one but I surprised myself. We had a fair bit of climbing to do to …Read more