Sifter Goes (bike) Riding

Colin · *by **Colin** on Sun 14/Feb/10 11:48pm*

Loving the Brevet updates Sifter

You and all the other Brevetieres are amazing. and crazy. and inspiring.

sifter · *by **sifter** on Mon 15/Feb/10 9:27am*

Cheers Colin! A bit more made it up this morning! :sleeping:

sifter · *by **sifter** on Thu 25/Feb/10 8:38am*

Back to work, and the odd lunchtime or weekend ride.

Met some good folk out at BikeNZ yesterday though. Advertorial...

http://sifter-writes-bikes.blogspot.com ... -ride.html

sifter · *by **sifter** on Sat 13/Mar/10 9:11am*

Karapoti story up

http://sifter-writes-bikes.blogspot.com/

Was nice to get out on the road bike a couple of times this week. Had my legs torn off by Joel yesterday - the man's in very fine form at the moment.

sifter · *by **sifter** on Sat 24/Jul/10 7:43pm*

Oh hurro!

Just had a wee flick through this old chestnut. What a neat little diary - great to be able to check out what I was up to last year... :blush:

It looks like I did a weekly night ride through June, some orienteering and a few bays rides in July and August, and a few short races. Akas loop from Haywards in late August and 4x up Mt Vic in early September, carrying on to 10 later in the year. I was 90.4kg on 16 September.

I've got some catching up to do. I've been back at work for 3 weeks after an 8 month stint at the Reserve Bank. I've ridden little since the Kiwi Brevet in February, and, it turns out I'm FAT! Tried to buy some jeans today, but no go. I'm sitting at around 94kg, which is a lot more than last year! That said, I'm within sight of 91kg in three weeks time, if I can get myself organised. Last year I shed almost 1kg/week from 91ish to 85ish. Time to constantly feel like I'm starving again...

I've a few things on the list:
From 3 to 12 ascents of Mt Vic, increasing 1 or 2 per week. STARTING THIS WEEK!
6 November: MTB Rogaine in Rotorua

http://www.maptalk.co.nz/events/event.cfm?e=2870
20-21 November: Tim Mulliner's Le Petite Brevet

http://lepetitebrevet.blogspot.com
4-7 February: Whanganui 4-Day Brevet, Yay. Details TBC, but tentatively compulsory overnight stops in National Park, Whangamomona, Patea. Start/Finish Whanganui, approx 750km
12-13 March 2011: Cyclic Saga.

Plenty of weekends to fill up with interesting rides. Whanganui area to explore in advance of the Brevet there. I loved the weekend away in the Wairarapa last year, and will aim to do something like that again. Also, a Palmerston North, (179km) to Napier, (155km) to Taihape, (102km) to Palmerston North (with detours off the main road on the north/south legs to add distance and solitude) tour has a lot of appeal... An insanely long ride would be cool too!

Watch this space! And, thanks for watching this space. It helps me to know you're out there... :love:

Colin · *by **Colin** on Sat 24/Jul/10 8:05pm*

Welcome back man

Looking forward to updates

goldfish · *by **goldfish** on Sat 24/Jul/10 8:50pm*

Massive respect :love:

Oli · *by **Oli** on Sat 24/Jul/10 9:57pm*

Go bro!

jeyboi · *by **jeyboi** on Sat 24/Jul/10 10:01pm*

Awesome stuff John :thumbsup:

Simonk · *by **Simonk** on Sat 24/Jul/10 10:30pm*

Looks like fun! Maybe I'll tag along

sifter · *by **sifter** on Sat 24/Jul/10 11:27pm*

Simonk wrote:Looks like fun! ~~Maybe~~ I'll tag along

I'm relying on it

Joel · *by **Joel** on Sat 24/Jul/10 11:28pm*

you know where the smashfests are for some fun during the week :thumbsup:

sifter · *by **sifter** on Thu 5/Aug/10 3:52pm*

A few gaps to fill below. Am pretty keen to do a weekend trip to the Wairarapa, e.g. train to Masterton, and some big old back road over Firday pm/Saturday/Sunday to get back to Upper Hutt... Any other recommendations?

Week ending:

1/8 3 x Mt Vic (done)
8/8 4 x Mt Vic (done), MTBO @ Belmont
15/8 5 x Mt Vic, weekend in Whanganui doing recce for Te Tāwhio o Whanganui
22/8 6 x Mt Vic
29/8 7 x Mt Vic, followed by R&R in South Africa
5/9 Cruisy road ride in the weekend to recover from long flight...
12/9 8 x Mt Vic? MTBO 4 at Wainui?
19/9 9 x Mt Vic?
26/9 10 x Mt Vic?
3/10 Wellington Peaks Points Race

wellington-peaks-points-race-t108075.html
10/10 12 x Mt Vic?
17/10
24/10 Palmerston North -> Hastings -> Taihape -> Palmerston North?
31/10
7/11 MTB Rogaine in Rotorua

http://www.maptalk.co.nz/events/event.cfm?e=2870
14/11
21/11 Tim Mulliner's Le Petite Brevet

http://lepetitebrevet.blogspot.com

4-7 February: Te Tāwhio o Whanganui: Whanganui 4-Day Brevet, Yay. Details TBC, but tentatively compulsory overnight stops in National Park, Whangamomona, Patea. Start/Finish Whanganui, approx 750km
12-13 March 2011: Cyclic Saga.