When my Dad decided this parenting malarkey was best done more at arms length than in the trenches, I landed up with a little more feminine perspective than is probably healthy for a 9 year old boy. Thankfully Dad was always on hand to keep the scales balanced (albeit after an hour pedal to the […]
The Rigid Stromlo Project
They say that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it… or to put it another way, you think I would have learned from the last time I was silly enough to try and ride my bike packing rig for 5 long laps of Stromlo. Last year as part of my preparations for Tour […]
Justin Morris’ Blog: Hard Yakka
Life has taken a few more twists & turns since I last wrote a blog. I have been back to Australia, back to America, back to Australia, back to America, to Europe and then back to America since November. The travel, although fantastic, was beginning to take a toll on my body and inevitably my […]
Being taken out of the comfort zone
When attempting to increase physical performance, you only get fitter / faster / stronger when you push your body out of its comfort zone and force it to overcompensate. Repeated small cycles like this are what bring the big gains over the course of a season. But what about technical riding? I would argue that […]
Five things every cyclist needs to ride a new city
I feel like I went to sleep and woke up with a new life. There was no magic, though – just a lot of hard work by loved ones. I got sick. One day I was living in Brisbane, the next, Sydney. I grew up in Sydney and left a few years after I started cycling, […]
The effect of music on athletic performance
This is part two of three of a small series on music and riding. Here’s Part One, in case you missed it. My own, highly subjective and anecdotal, experience is that music definitely helps me train. But I was interested to know what the science behind this might be, partly triggered by an excellent article from […]
Dreaming of a White Christmas and many off road adventures
It is that time of the year again where the Christmas spirit takes over and even the most serious of individuals become cynically interested in the festive season. Houses, trees and streets are covered with decorations and pretty Christmas lights whilst the songs “Fairytail of New York” by The Pogues and “All I want for Xmas is you” […]
Riding with music
Do you or don’t you? Along with helmets, Campag /Shimano / SRAM, and what do you think of Lance [oh, hold on, we seem to have resolved that one…], the question of whether to ride with music or not always has the ability to divide opinion. Even such luminaries as Bradley Wiggins have expressed their views. […]
Justin Morris’ Blog: Working, Travelling and Sharing
G’day there, Since I last wrote I have returned from Europe, stayed back in the USA, returned to Australia, returned to Europe, returned to Australia travelled to China, returned to the USA and then returned to Australia again. 2013 has been a hectic yet exciting year and I would not change a thing. I have […]
And now for something Completely Different…
Back in ‘the day’, MTB events were few and far between in NSW – we had the Working Week series of 8hr endurance races (five 8hr races – a working week geddit), a Sydney 12hr and 24hr, the Dirtworks (now Convict 100), the Highland Fling and probably most made the annual pilgrimage to Canberra for […]