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Marv’s July Bike Log

 

Dear Rouleurs,
July was an awesome month in the life of MMT. Team MMT’s newest member AJ, grew 5 cm and put on nearly 800 grams. The TDF 2016 was amazing race with so many highlights. Whilst the question of who would be the overall winner, Chris Froome, wasn’t in much doubt after the first week, each stage had its own special flavour.

So after a crappy June, MMT was seriously inspired by the SBS TV coverage. This resulted in very solid 700km effort, despite some truly ghastly weather. Changing a flat near Sandringham FC’s ground in the rain was new low point in my cycling experience and had me wishing for warmer and less windy weather.

Still I’ve passed 4,300 Km and I’m still about 780 Km ahead of my annual target. You see the details here.

20160804-JulyWkKm-Graph

Again I have no events planned for August, as I’ll be glued to the 2016 version of the La Vuelta and the Olympic road and track cycling.  Who knows may an Aussie will cash in and collect gold for the road race.

Until next blog, ride safe.

Marv

Marv’s June Bike Log

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Dear Rouleurs,

June was a great month in the life of MMT.  Team MMT gained a new member in the form of Audrey Jane, ‘AJ’ for short.  Much less welcome this month was the cold, windy and occasionally wet weather that arrived.  Whilst these are ideal conditions for ski bunnies they are lousy conditions for a new father with a cycling addiction. With Mum recovering from the pregnancy, this meant MMT had some serious non-cycling, entirely non-negotiable household duties.

Given this and a very painful but minor injury that kept MMT off the bike for 2 weeks, its a wonder that I got anywhere near 500km this month.  Hence my weekly distance count as a distinct dip in it now, marking the first time this year that I had a week of ZERO kilometres ridden.    Still I’ve passed 3,500 Km and I’m still about 580 Km ahead of target.

2016-June-AccKmGraph

Again I have no events planned for July, as I’ll be glued to the 2016 version of the Tour De France and entering untold levels of sleep deprivation.

Until next blog, ride safe.

Marv

Marv’s May Bike Log

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Dear Rouleurs,

May was another great month for cycling with again with warm weather.  My standout highlight of April being the Ballarat Autumn Day Ride. A 50 Km ride that I inadvertently turned into 60 Km.  D’oh!!!.  Its really decent ride through farming country and past a sizable wind turbine farm.  This is what my weekly distance count looks like.  I’m about 700 Km ahead of target now and I expect to pass the  3500 Km milestone in June.

2016-May-AccKmGraph

Unfortunately I don’t have any events planned for June as I expect that my first born child will be arriving sometime this month 😉

Until next blog, ride safe.

Marv

Marv’s April Bike Log

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Dear Rouleurs,

April was another great month for cycling with again with warm weather.  My standout highlight of April being the Ride the Bellerine, 60 Km version.  Its really decent ride along the bay, farming country and past the highlight 13th Beach.  This is what my weekly distance count looks like.  I’m about 500 Km ahead of target now and I expect to pass the  3000 Km milestone in May.

2016-Apr-AccKmGraph

My next big event is the 50 Km BAD, short for Big Autumn Day ride in Ballarat.  It has a different course to the Ballarat Classic, the ride I completed in Feburary.  It should be an good ride.

Until next blog, ride safe.

Marv