To start with, what a great weekend of racing that was. As usual a big thanks to the Canberra Cycling Club, Jason Parkes and all the volunteers for putting on another great tour. Even though this was the lowly D2 race, the grading was just right which made for good competitive racing. Saturday Stage 1 – was a nice 79km stage (which ended up...
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With the Tour of Canberra coming up next week here are a few stats which might be of interest. This data was taken from the online entry form which is publicly available material. Some of the age data was a little dodgy so I had to remove of the ages which didn’t make sense, like -14 etc. Men Avg Age NSW ACT VIC SA QLD...
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If your Garmin 305 has become faulty and the altitude reading no longer works here is a good work-around I have found. Firstly let me say by faulty I mean the elevation shows up as something like 5,000 or 20,000m. The work-around is really simple, instead of using the Training Centre software supplied by Garmin head over to Zone Five and grab a copy of...
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I know this isn’t a cycling article but I would like to share my PayPal woes and warn others I recently sold something on eBay and the transaction was paid for through PayPal. The transaction has now been disputed. Now I have no issues with the transaction being disputed except that the buyer does not have to provide any evidence that the goods were not...
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I thought this was an excellent demonstration of why you can’t always trust the elevation reading on your Garmin Edge. Because the elevation is recorded using the barometric pressure the weather can do some strange things at times. This is a comparison of two rides 24 hours apart on a 40k course. So what happened? Firstly I should say the blue course is the correct...
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