It was an early morning this morning, I had to get to the airport to catch a plane to Sydney for this years Tour. It was nice to be able to share the trip down with a couple of fellow Team members who were on the same flight as me. Jodi is doing the full riding Tour this year and Daryl is doing support for us this year. The flight …Read more
One of my Tour de Cure mates James Moore who did the Queensland Tour last year mentioned a while ago that he would help with a fundraising gig that I was doing in the future. Thats something that I didn’t forget so I gave him the call up for a morning riding on a static bike. We had a wonderful day, making heaps of money for TDC (around $2000) My …Read more
There are all sorts of ways to raise money for Tour de Cure. Its normally about getting in front of as many people that you can and telling your story about Tour de Cure and why you support it. This morning I had an opportunity to speak to the guys and girls at the Sunnybank Rotary club. They were really interested in the the talk I gave about how Tour …Read more
Part of getting ready for Tour de Cure is getting your bike ready to go so that everything is serviced and reliable. Here is the list that the head mechanic sent out to us Step 1 – 2 weeks before Tour, take your bike to a quality local bike shop and ask them to do a pre-race service on your bike, this should include but is not limited to: – …Read more
WOW its been a tough couple of weeks training. Not only has there been crazy work stuff going on with people on holiday and sick and family demands but I decided to have a couple of huge weeks on the bike to finish off my training. Here are the stats for the last couple of weeks Feb 24-Mar 2 601.6 km 23h 28m 5,796 m altitude Mar 3-9 603.1 km …Read more
In riding lingo, when you are in the hurt locker it means that you have hit the wall or pretty close to it. Todays ride was one of those days !! Our task today was to ride 170 km with 2500m climbing. Normally thats a big ride but today ………. it was massive as the temperature was above 40 deg for most of the later part of the ride. I …Read more
Today we decided to do a late ride. Jodi had a function on last night so she wanted a bit of a sleep in so she called it for 3.00pm. The plan was to go to the top of Mt Nebo and then back again to Paddington, a ride that we do on a regular basis but this one was different. The climb is pretty tough with lots of ups …Read more
Hi I have done it again! I have agreed to spend 10 days slogging it out on my bike to raise money to find a Cure for Cancer in this years Tour de Cure. Some of you will say I am stupid but I prefer to say passionate :-). I know that a lot of you have supported me in the past so I am writing today to see if …Read more
I am a bit stuffed at the moment, last week I spent one whole day on the bike training for the Tour – 24h and 37 minutes to be exact. Last week was the biggest ever training week I have had on the bike! Yesterday my legs felt like jelly and I was in the hurt locker for 50km of the 100 km ride, not much fun. Some might call …Read more
No matter how much you plan your rides and the upcoming week there is always something that throws you off. This week it was my daughter Michaela that has caused me to stop riding for a few days. She was playing at a friends house and tried to climb over a fence and went head first into the ground and BROKE HER NECK. Im not kidding, she literally broke her …Read more