Monthly Archives: February 2009

Crash boom bang, but good in the end.

February 22, 2009 – 9:34 am

Just back from the OCBC Cycle Singapore 50km race. It was really really good, my only goal was to stick with the main pack for as long as I could, hopefully at least till the start of ECP and not get booted off should I miss the 34km cut-off at 7am.
Because there were only four [...]

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Riding with the pros

February 21, 2009 – 6:47 pm

Ahead of tomorrow’s OCBC Cycle Singapore, I was invited to join some pro cyclists (who are in town for the Elite Criterium) for a training ride yesterday morning.
I was afraid I’d get dropped, seeing how the pack had riders from Team Saxo Bank (Matthew Goss), Team Type 1 from the US (Jesse Anthony, Ken Hanson, [...]

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V(O2max)-day

February 18, 2009 – 3:33 pm

Damo went for his body composition and VO2max tests at Racer’s Toolbox this arvo, as part of a package of fitness tests I got him as a birthday present. He aced both tests, the results of which I will not reveal. But let’s just say his VO2max would rank him among the world’s elite endurance [...]

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I like it long

February 18, 2009 – 11:08 am

I think short course really isn’t my thing. I’m just not built to go fast… I’m built to go on and on and on… long, long, long. I like it long. No, I love it long. This morning I went long - 3h 27min to be exact. I started at 5.30am and ran and ran [...]

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Baby’s birthday

February 17, 2009 – 10:29 pm

Today was Damian’s birthday, so I brought him for dinner at Flutes at the Fort at Fort Canning and baked him, on request, a cheesecake — a Bailey’s irish cream cheesecake with Valrhona chocolate icing and Haribo hearts. That was my idea. I wanted to make a cheesecake true to his pedigree… Irish and Haribo [...]

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