Sundays are some of the most depressing days of my life. I’ll never understand why. But let’s not focus on the crap, let’s focus on what was good: Race Against Cancer 2010 Alex and I went to run the 7.5km competitive run. I was a bit grumpy having to weave around people who were slow [...]

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I’ve just spent the last two hours trying to figure out how to first, tighten the front derailleur cable on Electra, then trying to fix her whole front derailleur. The result? Her shifting still sucks, I’m still limited to a bare few gear combinations and to make it even more fun, she can no longer [...]

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Last night, I lost my temper after nearly losing a limb or something. Returning home from the trail, Jeremy had just turned off and I was riding past this road where cars were turning in from the other side. If I remember my basic theory correctly, anyone going straight has the right of way, the [...]

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What happens when you take a couch potato wordsmith and dump her in the world of marathons? You get this book, that’s what happens. As much as I love reading books about training and autobiographies about runners and cyclists, half the time, those books take themselves way too seriously for my liking. Dawn Dais’ book [...]

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Last week was nuts. The closest explanation I can give is that I broke myself physically and ended up flat out on my back, sleeping 10 hours a day and more and just walking through treacle the entire damn time. Which explains why I’m posting week 15′s photo on week 16. Sometimes in life, you [...]

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I will admit to being inflexible and punishing towards myself in training occasionally most of the time. Its quite a strange trait because I’ve learned long ago to cut everyone else slack but I still don’t and won’t cut myself any slack. Years of ADHD-ish behavior has taught me that I lack the focus needed [...]

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Don’t wear clothes you like while working on a bike. If possible, its probably better not to wear a top at all but considering that I’m a chick and my neighbor’s estate agent is pottering around inside his house, it might not go down very well with the rest of the world. I feel terribly [...]

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Yesterday, I spent roughly 8 hours on my bike riding 100km around Singapore. I sorta feel ready to tackle Bike Asia now. Not the distance, mind you, but the amount of time on a bike saddle. I got around to thinking about why I do this. Run the distance, ride the distance. Its sort of [...]

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It really started in 2006 when I started riding my mountain bike properly and someone mentioned the word ‘tights’. Right there and then, I developed a problem with the idea of cycling tights. For one, mountain biking, to me, is a gung-ho kind of activity, not the sort of thing I want to link to [...]

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On a note, I believe Electra’s relationship with me was jinxed from the very beginning. First, I had to wait and wait and wait for her tires to turn up (650CC tires aren’t easy or cheap to come by, ya’ll), then she wasn’t fitted right, then I fell sick with a deadly cold/sinus/ear infection (ok, [...]

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