Yup, first week back on program and went pretty good. Felt strong for the whole race only to fail miserably with hyperventilation. No endurance yet, but all looks good for later this year. Plenty of speed and strength, just not the whole mix yet.

It's amazing what intensive sex therapy can do for a lazy lumbar

......and all by myself too

hyperventilation

Yes is right! you go from top of the world, smashin pumpkins to zero in a very short and stressful period of time. Funnily enuf the geeks in the white lab coats reckon it's triggered by stress (eg. lack of race fitness). This time was wierd tho. I didn't feel bothered at all just couldn't breathe all of a sudden, then wham, hyper. Total spinout.

Jocko, I got that at the BMX track sometimes. Ever see stars?

No, I'm not that brave

Alby does the unthinkable and beats McEwen in a sprint finish, Gerrans leads from start to finish to take a tour GC, and what's in the paper? NOTHING. SFA.

pretty girls in short skirts in Melbourne, cricket to lose in Sydney, and it's footy pre-season, you think anyone cares ?

Happy Monday !

Hmmm... I guess not. But it would have been nice to have read sumfing about it. It's only our premier annual cycling event.

I think it was on Page 10 in the Advertiser this morning

It'll take a LONG time for that to happen.

US Pro Champs is never in the paper anywhere except in Philadelphia where it used to be held every year. The rest of the US wouldn't even know it was on even though half the town of Philly and surrounding burbs used to go every year. One of the biggest outdoor gatherings they have every year but you wouldn't know if you didn't live right there.

I care. really I do!

Cream, yellow...same same

Dead set tool.

We need him to go live one day with no delay and have a rider say "What the fark are you on about, you dickhead??"

See Mark French only did a 10.80.

He's sooooo slow. He should just give up now.

I heard it was close to 45 deg in the "Joe Ciavola" velodrome.......would be like breathing hot cotton wool in there. Outdoors, cold night after a warm day, no wind, he would've cracked it I reckon.



Leigh Howard....superstar.

Can pedal a bit, eh?

When he beat Kersten at the Sydney 1000 and Bayley shortly after would he have been on junior gearing, or do they waive the rollout rules for big opens?

in open events, you can ride what you like. In U17, U19 etc, you are limted.

We've got a young guy who races A Grade at club level in his junior gearing (U17 I think) and he scoots along pretty quick. He'll be a monster when he comes off restrictions. I'm betting he'll explode onto the scene in the same way that Dale Scarfe & Angus Moreton (U19) did this year once he can use all that untapped strength.

Don't you normally have to have finished your career/role etc before having something named after you? Will it be called a Ciavoladrome from now on?

+1 on Leigh Howard. Big future for him. Nasty fall for Matt Lloyd at the TDU, victim of the heat apparently.

Gates came across totally differently on yesterday's show, so now I feel a bit guilty for saying he came across as a bit of a dickhead

I spotted McEwen, pretty sure it was him coming through Hyde park today around midday. Saw the team gear the guy was wearing then the Aussie coloured bike, must have been him or a full-on McEwen worshiper. He's a short arse.

Yup, that was him:

Robbie's itinerary in detail for Jan 23:

Arrive Centennial Park from Adelaide, breakfast hosted by NSW IS head cycling coach Gary Sutton. Meet NSW IS junior riders, talk with them and join them in a low intensity ride through the Park.
At 11.30am visit ANZAC War Memorial, Hyde Park, then Pool of Remembrance, Archibald Memorial Fountain, Queen's Square, Parliament House and Macquarie statue, deliver letter of introduction from Randwick Botany Cycling Club to State Member for Maroubra, Michael Daly, ride down Macquarie Street to Opera House for lap of the icon.
At 1pm attend City Tattersall's Club for luncheon with media and corporate representatives, hosted by Events du Monde's John E. Scott and Cycling Australia's CEO, Mr Graham Fredericks.
At 4.30pm visit Randwick Botany Cycling Club's 2.1km raceway at Heffron Park, Maroubra, for low intensity ride with juniors, members and visitors - all welcome.
At 6.30pm attend Souths Juniors dinner and talk Tour de France until 9pm.

Hear him talk about the TDF at souths jnrs? Mrs and I went for dinner there once, bad mistake. It's a bit like a crusie ship you can't get off once you enter.

I read on the RBCC site it is $89 to hear him and have dinner. Personally I can think of better ways to waste $90.

waste? can you drink that in wine and beer? Maybe you can do a Boonie and set the beer record for beers drunk during a 3 hour dinner with Robbie on the mic.

GACK!

Let's say dinner is $25 value. That leave $60 to get through in 3hours at about $3.50 a schooey. That's 6 schooners an hour. They'd have to pour you into a cab