Well its finally here. Tomorrow is the first day of the Tour de Cure for 2011. Final preparations have been made and all the guys are excited and ready to get on the bike tomorrow and complete the first leg. We have just been to dinner with the whole crew and the sense of excitement and energy in the room was fantastic. Everybody is keen to get on the bikes …Read more
The great thing about cycling is that you get to ride with a wide variety of people. Today’s ride was with the EXTEND TEC group out to do a Redcliffe Loop. The only problem was that a couple of the boys were keen as mustard and the pace was very slick. We ended up doing the first 35km at an average above 35km/h and thankfully the home leg was a …Read more
Part of training for a long ride such as the Tour de Cure involves doing long training rides. The longest stint on the Tour de Cure this year is the 239km leg between Thredbo and Albury. During this day we will have climbed 3102 metres so its important to make sure that there are lots of hills in this years training. The O’Reillys ride started from the Hyperdome in Loganholme …Read more
Well the forcast wasnt for the best weather today (Sunday) but when you have a goal to get fit for a ride starting in less than 80 days you do what it takes, or you do if your a Queenslander. We met a bit later this morning as we were getting all the Queensland boys together. Matt from the Sunny Coast (???) Michael from Ipswich, Byron from down south and …Read more
Part of the training for the Tour de Cure means riding day after day to get used to the time in the saddle. Here is our ride on Saturday 8th of January from Loganholme to the Gold Coast. As per usual lately we had some rain but it didnt deter us from doing 120km today. Heres the video of the ride.
Well it had to start some time as its only about 85 days till we roll out of Sydney on our Journey to Melbourne. This time because of the added difficulty of the hills through Canberra and Thredbo we need to practice lots of hills to get us through. Here is a video of me tackling Mt Cootha which is a local “hill” that overlooks Brisbane City. Its about 65 …Read more
Well 2011 is here and I guess it had to start some time. Now that our cruise is over and Christmas is over its time to get motivated to lose the excess kilograms and get some fitness under my belt. Whilst I have been riding a few times a week there is no way that I could complete a big ride like Tour de Cure without some serious miles in …Read more
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Today was an early morning, it had to be as we were going to be the first official vehicle to cross over the new Gateway bridge. Every body was buzzing as we set off for a 15km run to the base of the bridge. Today we were the first of 175,000 people that would go over the bridge, quite an achievent for the Tour de Cure guys. After a quick …Read more