Well the training has started !! I have just got back from holidays and looking forward to starting the training that will get me ready for the 2014 Tour de Cure. Normally I would ease myself into it by doing a month of medium range rides to bed the bum in and get the legs turning but this year the Tour de Cure is a lot earlier. Normally we start …Read more
Great news, I just got the news that I have been accepted into the 2014 Tour de Cure riding from Sydney to Hobart. The route should be a great one making its way from Sydney inland to Melbourne and then down the East coast to Hobart ! I am so happy to be included for my 5th Tour, its a real privilege and exciting time.
Its nearly over ………… the hiatus that I have over winter where I don’t ride, sleep in and get really fat by eating lots of great deserts and drinking too much wine is coming to an end !! Its not all about not wanting to get up when its cold, although that’s a really good reason not to go for a ride but its all about getting back in the …Read more
What a wonderful journey this years Tour de Cure was. For me it was filled with great friendships, challenging riding and wonderful memories. If you have read the blogs over the last couple of weeks you may be able to understand what it means to come along in the Tour de Cure bubble for 10 days. I feel a huge personal achievement of being part of the team that has …Read more
We knew that today was going to be a hard day when we came out from dinner last night. The temperature had been getting cooler all week and now that we were in the mountains it was bitterly cold! The alarm went off at 4.30am and I stuck my foot out to see what the temp was like. I quickly pulled it back in and contemplated a little snooze 🙂 …Read more
It was very cold again this morning and because we had to get Mark Beretta down the road about 30km to get him to the first cross we left pretty early. The rollout time was set to 6.00am! We had breakfast in front of the fire at the local Jindabyne hotel and it was a hard job to pry us from the open fire to the cold outdoors to start …Read more
Today was the start of the cold weather, the morning was very fresh to say the least, it was about 4 deg so everybody was rugged up the the max! After our regular Sunrise program crosses and a presentation to the school we had breakfast at we were off. I remember the track that we were taking today from 2 years ago but this time was in reverse. In face …Read more
Day 7 already, it seems like we had just left Adelaide and now we are on the homeward stretch with only a couple of climbing days to go before we arrive in Canberra. This morning was cold, damn cold. I think the temperature before the sun came up was about 4 degrees! I spoke to a couple of locals at the channel 7 cross and they all said that this was the coldest …Read more
Today was always going to be a tough day to get through as it was after 3 rather long days on the bike. The day after a 220km day yesterday the legs were a bit stiff this morning but a few stretch’s helped to get me going. As I exited the accommodation this morning it was evident that it was going to be a cold morning, I think that it was about …Read more
Today is officially the longest day of the 2013 Tour de Cure and today is also the day that we reach the half way mark in kilometers so everybody was apprehensive this morning. All the guys were still having fun but you could see that a few of the riders were doubting their ability to achieve this milestone. For some riders this day was their longest ever ride. For some they were …Read more