DAYS REMAINING UNTIL NOVEMBER 29!!!


Can I do the 110km to 130km leg please?

Thursday, July 31, 2008

T&T Wellington

Right then, T&T Wellington are all go for the challenge! We've got three people doing the full 160km, and two teams of 4 doing the relay. We're taking a relaxed attitude at the moment, since we've still got ages to go and its been raining heaps, and there are lots of interesting organising things to keep us distracted for now. I'll work on getting some photos sorted.

Comment on the Tour:
Don't dis Julian! He did an awesome job and had a brilliant Tour, if you ask me! He managed 4th on one stage, was 6th on the final stage into Paris, and was the 9th best sprinter by the end of the Tour. That's fantastic! Bring on the Olympics.

Friday, July 11, 2008

PHOTOS!

We need your photos, people. Sorry about last night, Jo and Andrew, but you guys looked so cool in your cycling gear.

Please email on any photos, news, ideas for the blog to the contributors listed at the bottom of the screen.

Tour news - a bad day at the office for Julian - finished 17 and half minutes down on the stage winners.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Stage 5, Cholet to Châteauroux

Latest news from Le Tour, notice that the Herald website has not registered this yet and there are no newsfeeds available from the Tour website.

http://www.letour.fr/

Stage 5 from Cholet to Châteauroux was billed as Julian Dean's stage, long flat section, with a sprint finish. In the end, the best he could manage was tenth spot (two Aussies were credited with finishes ahead of him), though at least he was up with the time.

Julian used to train on the bikes down at the Olympic Gymn. A group of us in Auckland are looking at maybe arranging some training sessions at the Olympic. If you want to join in, sing out!

We will be keeping an eye out for Julian and the rest of the Tour over the next three weeks.

Keep pedalling!

Monday, July 7, 2008

Some cycletaupo Blog FAQs

Hello again,

If you are reading this post, then you have already been invited to read this blog. To do this, you need either an account with Blogger or an equivalent (like a Gmail account). This will allow you to comment on any post.

If you want greater access, i.e. you want to create your own posts on new topics or add content such as training programmes, then contact one of the contributors (listed down the right hand side of the main page) and we will add you to the group. Contributors are generally the contact people for the Challenge for your Office. To add some breadth of comment and introduce some interesting content we have set up a few additional contributors - if you would like to help out by starting new discussion threads or adding content directly to the Blog, we want to hear from you!

If you do become a Contributor, we will send you a cheatsheet to get you started with Blog editing / html coding etc. But relax, Blogger is very user friendly blogware and if you should find it pretty quick to pick up.

As for the rest of us, invited readers and other interested parties, you should know that as this is an "invitation only" blog, ONLY T&T PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPRESSED AN INTEREST IN DOING THE CHALLENGE CAN READ THIS BLOG.

This is why we are using Blogger - we can have up to 100 private users without having to pay for the access.

We are also trying to set up an RSS feed, so you can track new posts/comments. Having a few issues with the fact that this is a private blog i.e. password authentication tricky, but hopefully we can get the newsfeed to work on most web based feedreaders (like Netvibes, Google and Internet Explorer.

Over the next week or so, you might see some changes to the look and feel of the blog. Keep posted and we will talk to you again soon!

Paul

Welcome!

Greetings and welcome

The Taupo Cycle Challenge is only 145 days away!

We already have a huge interest in the event amongst Tonkin & Taylor staff, right across the country.

To help you get started, we have created this group blog. Here you will find all sorts of interesting news to keep you going. We will be posting training programmes, team news and gossip, information about your participation in the event. We are interested in your contribution - advice on diet, bikes for sale, even photos (if you have any!)

Check back here regularly for news, tips and tricks! And keep pedalling!

Paul Tudor