any good riding in northwest Tokyo? I know the Arakawa river path is an option… what I’d love is to be able to rent a trainer and use it in my hotel room.
any help appreciated!
Time for a run focus!
Hopefully some of the Japan crew can synch you up. If you are bent on riding, what about taking your trainer and renting a bike. In general, I have found that cycling on business travel is ineffective from a time management perspective unless you have entire days on weekends off from work. Biking on business travel is great in terms of touring and seeing things (like the Han River road bike cruise in Seoul 2008!!!).
Also I have found doing a lot of hotel treadmill incline runs are excellent for keeping up bike FTP. Lots of 8-12% grade running and you come home to your bike and it’s like you never missed a session. Last year I spent 20 weeks where I had travel away from home and around 16 I had zero bike access (bought a folding bike on one trip and took my bike on another) and posted wattage and time split absolute PB’s in several races
Dev, last business trip I did a run focus and it was awesome. It was in Seoul so I did all of my old favorite routes and got in 90 miles for the week.
this trip is one week in Tokyo, one week in Seoul so this time I’m bringing the bike to hit all my old long rides in Seoul.
that said, if things don’t work out it will be doubles, doubles, doubles.
Dev, last business trip I did a run focus and it was awesome. It was in Seoul so I did all of my old favorite routes and got in 90 miles for the week.
this trip is one week in Tokyo, one week in Seoul so this time I’m bringing the bike to hit all my old long rides in Seoul.
that said, if things don’t work out it will be doubles, doubles, doubles.
Just bumping for the evening crowd in Japan in case someone can help Eric.
That is a long trip…in that case go for it. There are several paths in Tokyo beside the rivers that are pretty good. Also the loop around the imperial palace (Chiyoda) is 5K and is packed with roadies. I have ridden there on one trip where my hotel was next door (AM ride, PM run). I basically rode the loop every morning and then on the weekend, I rode the Azami Line up Mount Fuji to the 5th station at 2000m. That was the hardest climb I did in my life to that point, until I did the Mauna Kea access road. Graphic does not tell the tale of the tape, because in the “red” sections" there are several stretches that are 14-24% but for only 200-400m at a time. They are killer. You can smell all the burning brakes of tour buses coming down. At the moment it is March, so it might not be that fun getting up to 2000m as there is likely snow all over the place there.
