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So now I am in week 3 and after a bit of travel and a couple of hectic weeks, I am back in Hong Kong and settled into a better routine which I should be able to keep up until the race. For me routine is key. Like most of you, especially those in my 40+ age bracket, cycling is just one of the many demands on our time. Its often a struggle to find enough time for family, work, social activity, personal admin, pets, household duties, training, recovery, Netflix…. The list goes on. A solid structured routine, helps to...

Over the years whilst I have been living in Asia, and as I get older, and even slower, I have turned to Masters racing which normally consists of multi stage races, criteriums and ubiquitous one day Gran Fondo events. The Gran Fondo style events have surged in popularity in recent years with UCI even endorsing a Gran Fondo ‘World Championships’. For the last few years I had qualified for this event via events in Australia and Indonesia, but due to multiple excuses never actually attended. In 2019, the Championships fall in early September in Poznan, Poland and for me there...

Shorten babbling about death taxes. Sco-Mo spruiking economic leadership, Alan Jones chirping freedom of speech and Israel Folau, Old Man Trump picking fights with 1.3 billion Chinese, where is Big papi??, how to be an influencer, how not to be influenced, ‘weight’ doping on Zwift, who is Roxy Jacenko?? ------- so. much. noise. And then I clip in and from that first pedal stroke – silence. This is why I ride. Silence. No distractions, no voices in my ear, no white noise…. Just the pedals turning over. Some days the pedals turn less easily than others but that feeling of...