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Track cycling: First ever session
I went into the velodrome a few days ago and asked about total beginner track cycling. They told me their session was on Tuesday at 6pm. I looked at the track while I was there, and nearly fell over...
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Velodrome photos
Simple: Mark is here at last, so I got some photos of me on the velodrome. The bike is a ILT borrowed bike, because I don’t have one yet. You wait till I am sitting on carbon! Filed under: Training...
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NZ Masters games: 2 more medals!
Day 2 of the track competitions here in Dunedin and looking at this photo of my warm up bike, you would struggle to believe that it was hammering it down earlier today! Today’s races were the 500m...
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Track crash Tuesday!
Not exactly how I expected to spend a Tuesday. It was my first time back to the track in quite a while. I was intending to just mooch around at my own speed, ease back in slowly. I pumped the …...
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Riding on a wooden slope: back to the velodrome
Today I bit the bullet and actually went back to the velodrome. I knew it would be hard, I knew I would be out of practice (and confidence!) but I hoped that a few rotations of the boards and I …...
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Coaching course weekend
I decided to grab this opportunity as Cycling New Zealand doesn’t venture this far south now that the Avantidrome is up in Cambridge. I was slightly amused that the trained was from Liverpool, England,...
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Round and round we go: back to the track
I remember clearly how I felt the first time I walked into the velodrome and saw the slanted track corners. I kinda felt that nervous again. It’s been a whole 6 weeks since I was last there. The track...
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Day 1 as something other than a triathlete
I woke up this morning feeling a bit odd. What does a NON-triathlete do? Do I keep swimming, gymming, biking? What if I actually WANT to go for a run? What do I do with all my running gear? Before …...
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