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John Buchan: Transalp Stage 6 - Alleghe to San Martino de Castrozza - Team Zipvit Sport
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Endurance Mountain Bike Racer. Thursday, 21 July 2011. Transalp Stage 6 - Alleghe to San Martino de Castrozza - Team Zipvit Sport. Ive got to start this today with a huge thanks to everyone of all your messages of support last night, it did the trick and by the time Lizzie and I came back from the Pizzeria, I had my team mate back! Several good feeds a couple of massages and an early night, coupled with clear skies this morning and spirits were much lighter in the van this morning. The riding then became...
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John Buchan: June 2011
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Endurance Mountain Bike Racer. Friday, 17 June 2011. Its "The Final Count Down". Here we are then. 4 weeks to go until the Transalps so I thought I'd better resurrect the Blog! I've been rather remiss with this this year but rather busy times at work along with finding, buying and moving house, training etc etc etc have all left me with barely enough time to sleep. Should be great for the Transalps and will be perfect for Kielder later in the year. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Great Products and People.
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John Buchan: Transalps - The Cold, Hard truth... Links to Garmin Data
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Endurance Mountain Bike Racer. Tuesday, 2 August 2011. Transalps - The Cold, Hard truth. Links to Garmin Data. I'm working on photos and should have a selection of the best pics up on the blog in the next few days or so but for now have a look at the cold, hard truth! Links below to the Garmin Data recorded for each Stage. Stage 1 Mittenwald to Weerberg. Stage 2 Weerberg to Mayerhofen. Stage 3 Mayerhofen to Brixen. Stage 4 Brixen to St Vigil. Stage 5 St Vigil to Alleghe. Stage 6 Alleghe to San Martino.
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John Buchan: April 2010
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Endurance Mountain Bike Racer. Monday, 19 April 2010. Midlands XC - Round 1 - Hanchurch Woods. Agreeing to a night-out in Bradford on Friday was never going to be great preparation for a race on Sunday, but having taken the best part of 20 years to get back in touch with each other after leaving University in Newcastle upon Tyne, it was a pretty good reason, and I guess you have to try and have a life outside of work and riding bicycles. It was pretty much the same set-up so what could go wrong? The cour...
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John Buchan
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Endurance Mountain Bike Racer. Sunday, 11 September 2011. 4:30am, never a good time to have an alarm ringing in your ear. Rain pattering on the roof of the tent had constantly filtered in and out of my sleep since I’d gone to bed making it even harder to leave my sleeping bag. The coffee pot on the stove was to be my only luxury that day. I was working on the basis of a Zipvit gel an hour, four Zipvit energy bars and grab a handful something at feed stations should be enough to keep me fuelled to the end...
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John Buchan: March 2012
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Endurance Mountain Bike Racer. Sunday, 11 March 2012. There is a school of thought that suggests the science behind the sort of bathroom scales that tell you how fat you are is fundamentally flawed, and such devices are therefore quite useless. There is some logic to this, I mean I struggle to understand how a whacking electricity into the soles of your feet can differentiate between amounts of fat, muscle, bone and water with any meaningful accuracy. Thats just offensive, even if it is wrong. View my co...
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John Buchan: September 2010
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Endurance Mountain Bike Racer. Wednesday, 22 September 2010. Kielder 100 - 2010 Grand Finale. One Lap, One Rider, One Adventure, One Hundred Miles. The main question in my mind was had I recovered from the efforts of Sleepless? It is hard to get your head around the potential that 4 weeks is not enough for your body to repair itself after such a huge effort. I mean, if it took nearly 3 weeks for the skin to re-grow on my backside, so what sort of state was the rest of me in? Rich Munro, riding singlespee...
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John Buchan: September 2011
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Endurance Mountain Bike Racer. Sunday, 11 September 2011. 4:30am, never a good time to have an alarm ringing in your ear. Rain pattering on the roof of the tent had constantly filtered in and out of my sleep since I’d gone to bed making it even harder to leave my sleeping bag. The coffee pot on the stove was to be my only luxury that day. I was working on the basis of a Zipvit gel an hour, four Zipvit energy bars and grab a handful something at feed stations should be enough to keep me fuelled to the end...
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John Buchan: September 2012
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Endurance Mountain Bike Racer. Friday, 21 September 2012. Oi Legs. Shut-it! Montane Kielder 100, the only 100 mile (one lap) mountain bike race in the UK and I suspect could/should be lauded as one of the hardest MTB races in the world! Who I was really chuffed to be riding for at this event. Everything about this race is tough and lining up on a cold morning for a 6:30am start is I guess just part of the fun! A few miles behind the lead-out van had to suffice as a warm-up before the race kicked-off for ...
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John Buchan: July 2011
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Endurance Mountain Bike Racer. Sunday, 24 July 2011. Stage 8 - Trento to Riva Del Garda - Team Zipvit Sport. Team Transviamala had 6mins on us, it was possible we could beat them. So part one of the plan was to bag a spot on the front row. An even earlier alarm at 5:30, breakfast and drive back into Trento, and a bit of European style queuing got our spot front and centre, perfect. At the 2nd feed station there was a horrid muddy push up a steep hill, Stevies knee was giving him some grief. Didnt dru...
