Monday, October 01, 2001

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posted by Ben 6:17 PM [edit]

Sunday, September 16, 2001

Riding nearly 80KM on Saturday. I headed out to Chiba and up my favorite cycle root under the expressway. After doing 37KM, I made a u-turn and started heading back the same route. My legs feel great and 100% ready for this trek. Plan to get at least another 100+KM under me this week, just to prove I am ready.
posted by Ben 8:11 AM [edit]

Saturday, September 08, 2001

Yesterday was great. We traveled to Chiba, then upto Saitama. We met a guy (maybe in his 70's) on the way. He showed us his special cycling map. It was pretty cool! It's hard to beleive we did over 90KMs, but I felt great when I came home.

I woke up this morning and did about 20KM more, as my legs were a little soar and needed to be woken up. I got soaked from the strange weather we are having today in Tokyo. It's sunny one hour and rains down neko & inu the next hour. Going to try to whip another batch of beer tonight for the guys, so we have something to drink when we get back from our tour....
posted by Ben 11:33 PM [edit]

Saturday, September 01, 2001

With our normal at 7AM in Shibuya, then we headed for Shinjuku, passing through Otemachi, Kasai Seaside Park and did a circuit around Tokyo Disneyland in Chiba. It was a great 80+KM ride. That evening Arch had a house party.

Today, my new SPD Shoes and SPD Pedals came today. Couldn't wait to try them out! Everything fits perfectly!

I look forward riding into work everyday this week!
posted by Ben 11:22 PM [edit]

Sunday, August 19, 2001

With a 70KM ride under our belt this past Saturday, it has put all of our bodies to the test. We met at the same spot in Shibuya (Hachiko) at 7AM. The rain started to come down pretty hard. I think it was a test of will, as we will be cycling in the middle of Typhoon season when we do this... The rain stopped however and the air heated up and the sun came out and we all got sunburned.

We were home by 1PM and took a nap before we had to head out to "Ron and Midori's 37th Tri-annual Booze and Grub Fest"... I couldn't beleive how many people showed up, with live music playing, it felt like a Fuji Rock Fest...

I look forward to riding into work 3 times this week, plus joining a night time ride with Pete and Arch as well... We are feeling really good now and the team bonding is getting stronger!
posted by Ben 6:53 PM [edit]

Sunday, August 05, 2001

Saturday's test was a good one. Completing 65KM in 3 hours and 20 minutes of cycling time. It's amazing how good a ice cold beer tastes after a long hot ride!

We feel the team spirit growing stronger each time we train together. The response from our sponsors have been great! We are very confident to reach our goal of 3 million yen.
posted by Ben 7:03 PM [edit]

Sunday, July 29, 2001

Well this weekend was a great trail ride. We headed out to Odaiba, we ended up doing about 75KM.
posted by Ben 4:19 PM [edit]

Thursday, July 26, 2001

Our website is 99% complete. Big THANK YOU to Kristen for her talents. I just need to upload our team picture, which will be ready by Friday.
posted by Ben 12:33 AM [edit]

Monday, July 23, 2001

Well it look like we can't make it Kawaguchiko this weekend. The transportation out there is sold out for the morning. So we decided to leave at 5:30AM on Saturday and head out to Odaiba and do a few circuts around that area. We should still be able to get in 50KM on Saturday.

The reasons we need to leave so early, is TRAFFIC, SMOKE and HEAT. All the hazzards of living in a big city like Tokyo. However 50KM is still pretty good.

We look forward to speaking with our vendors to seek some sponsership from them in exchange for advertising.
posted by Ben 11:55 PM [edit]

Sunday, July 22, 2001

The excitement is unreal! We have so much support in our efforts. We want to thank you all for your continued endorsement. We have schedule another go around the Five Lake of Mt Fuji for this weekend. We should complete about 70KM on this journey, not to mention one leg of this test is 15KM straight up hill!


posted by Ben 10:06 PM [edit]

Wednesday, July 04, 2001

teamperotsystemsjapan begins preparations for a 350 km, 7 day charity ride from Seoul, South Korea to Osaka Japan.

Who is teamperotsystemsjapan? Arch, team captain, is from The Netherlands and works as purchasing manager for PerotSystems Japan, an IT company partnering with investment bank UBS Warburg; Peter, a Canadian citizen, distributes NT applications to thousands of investment bankers and support teams at UBS Warburg; Ben is part of Perot Systems Japan's NT systems administration team and is originally from the US.

The three will be training for their September journey and are currently soliciting donations for the Children's Cancer Association of Japan (CCAJ).
posted by Kristen 6:46 PM [edit]