It’s Movember. Men often neglect their own health. It’s a good reminder for all us blokes to stay active, eat well, be happy and keep healthy.

Photos to follow, at the end of the month…

Here’s the result of one month’s hard work…

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1. HY - 1001.55km
2. Geek - 732km
3. Keith - 657km
4. HP - 382km

Last updated 12:00, 29/11/08 (GMT +10)

Well, that wraps it up for the first properly contested (non-retrospective) race for YJOM. It made for a very interesting month. HY was out of the blocks very early, determined to get a psychological break on the rest of us. Admittedly, this actually worked. He continued to pull away and has claimed YMOM for November, impressively breaking through the 1000km mark.

Norm came in at 2nd place. Good effort, considering how much of that riding would have been in pitch-black, 5 degree weather. It was neck and neck with myself for a good part of that month. But in the end, it was those 100km+ rides that enabled him to pull away to a convincing 2nd place.

Unfortunately for me, November was the month wife started back at work. That left me with only Wed and Fri to do mid-week riding. On top of that, it seemed to always rain on those precise days. My last ditch 78km on the Franga-Fang wasn’t even near enough to bridge the gap to even threaten Norm’s placing.

An honourable mention goes to HP, his first month of joining us on MCL. To his credit, he does do a lot of his riding off-road. A lot of this month was spent building bikes, rather than actually riding them. Hopefully, with a new roadie on the production line, we might see a bit of road mileage also, in the coming months.

Something to do if you’re bored. Maybe even get started on that dream bike. I’m still working on mine…

http://www.pedalmafia.com/mafid/mafia_id.html

I think I’m pretty set on my event for next year: La Marmotte. So just in case, anyone interested?

Should be an interesting ride between the 115km and 160km marks. Surely there’d be small rolling hills in between and it can’t be downhill for ALL 45km!??

Updated 22 November 2008

Updated 22 November 2008 - Zara

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I went to the letterbox to get the mail this morning. After reaching in with my bare hand to take out all the mail, I noticed something at the back of the letterbox…

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Tonsai Bay, Krabi, Thailand

Linky

The Story of Stuff. I’m kinda more conscious of what we use and what we waste these days so I found this an interesting video. I mean, why buy and accumulate so much stuff to begin with? (Especially when you don’t need it). Gin and I have bought barely anything since coming here (okay, our apartment is fully furnished but we haven’t really bought anything additional that we don’t use).

Anyway, so maybe you guys should stop trawling eBay all the time too…

My gosh… new record for me I think. Haven’t posted in almost 3 months!!! (And yet I’m still ahead in the total post count).

Anyway, went out for my mid-week ride today, doing some hill repeats as per last week. I don’t know what it is but I seem to be very consistent when it comes to a lot of my rides. Considering I had about 6km of traffic to deal with, it still took me almost exactly the same time to the second as my last week’s attempt.

Some other examples of my consistent performance (or lack thereof).

• Time trial course I did 2 years ago in Melbourne. My first leg out was almost identical to the second again as my return leg back.
• My regular commutes into work is usually +/-30 seconds apart from the commute back home, despite the hundreds of traffic lights that I have to deal with.

And it’s not like I try to time them that way. I just don’t look at the elapsed time figures until I get home.

Is there an explanation for this?? Or am I really just consistently slack?