Big Bike Week

Nothing like a Hawaii Ironman to get you motivated. Had a tough work week with some late nights, but have been able to get a session in each day on the trainer and the hours have added up well and for the first time in months, got road rides done on both Sat and Sunday morning. Nothing long alone, but added together got over 300km done this week. Be nice to think that I could do this week on week leading into Roth, but life and motivation always makes it hard to do that.

In the wake of last weekends race, there is some magic stuff on the net to show how the day went as well as to keep you motivated. Try these on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1O4G6Rn_Gc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ1DtfqPif4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-84QhutGQDo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heDqDYuEKTg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&v=r64XLZ_Zv6Y&annotation_id=annotation_979079

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bb306rus4c&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Y68myOWy4&feature=related

Past Years
http://www.youtube.com/user/TimRabe#p/u/5/ckFvoGRPiCU
http://www.youtube.com/user/TimRabe#p/a/u/1/iROsDCzDRRI

Some other things also turned up in the mail this week which helped. Got my new Cervelo kit to replace the ones I ripped when I fell off a couple of weeks back. Have both the Black and White versions and a new Giro helmet. Went for a black helmet this time, and first ride out have found it seems to attract the magpies a lot. One 65k ride and got 'bombed' 5 times. I threw in pics of real cyclists to show what they look like, as they fill out these threads better than me.

Sad that the Cervelo Team will be no more in 2011.

The other major arrival was our new TV. Lisa has done well organising a 55" Sony, which after a fair amount of mucking around including antenna adjustments has given us clear (non pink) viewing of all the digital stations for the first time. Amazing what colours we had been missing for the last couple of years and when connected to the stereo with my favourite doof playing it is Awesome!!!