Anyone who has looked at pictures of me or has met me would probably agree that I don’t have a wide margin for weight loss. Unfortunately I have done just that following a 5 day bout of stomach issues that recently climaxed with a visit to the ER on Saturday night over fears of appendicitis. [...]

Wow.  Tour of California is done and here I am on my couch and still feeling a little knackered. And I didn’t even finish the bloody race! Truly a great week for the team with Rory and Mark showing great form and everyone rallying behind them to make sure we made the biggest impression possible [...]

Wow.  Tour of California is done and here I am on my couch and still feeling a little knackered. And I didn’t even finish the bloody race! Truly a great week for the team with Rory and Mark showing great form and everyone rallying behind them to make sure we made the biggest impression possible [...]

Well well well, welcome back to the written musings and blather of my conciousness! Let’s dispense with the “long time no sees” and get on with the future, which is now, and for your reading pleasure, is the Tour of Califonia as seen through the eyes of myself and for your benefit, my camera phone. [...]

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Hello Estranged Blog Readers, It has been a little while since I last wrote anything! I hope you all didn’t miss me too much, although with all the great new content up here on MissingSaddle, it is unlikely that my neglect has put you out too badly. For further reading on expectation regarding  my abilities [...]

Hello Readers I have not been neglecting you, I have been out of the country! Although I could have been blogging while on my trip, I wasn’t- for a variety of reasons but all closely linked to the central fact that I was basically just too tired to do so.  I guess I didn’t announce [...]

Oh man my life has been boring this past week! Sitting on the couch right when I was starting to get the ball rolling has been frustrating, but approaching it all with a healthy consideration of “it is what it is” has kept me in good spirits. To alleviate the considerable amount of cabin fever [...]

Hey Everyone- Well, it looks like Missingsaddle.com is down, and so am I! Clearly some sexually frustrated malcontent is responsible for the bug attack on an innocent and friendly cycling website, and to the hacker responsible I say get either a therapist, a girlfriend, or as it is likely that you are lacking in the [...]

Turns out I’ve been drinking decaf the past week-or at least it feels like it-because I have had very little to say, which for me is virtually unheard of. Historically this means that I’m in a good place racing wise, so after this past weekend’s tune up in San Dimas, I should be firing well [...]

My legs are starting to regain their form after California, but not as quickly as I would like! With such a hard tour coming so early in the year, I have been feathering the edge I gained from 8 days of heavy pressure to avoid finding myself cracked in a month’s time. To achieve this, [...]