Category: Tour de Tohoku
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Tohoku Terminated
An event seven years in the making! The bikes were ready! The paperwork was in order! The riders were … the riders were present! I’d first ridden the Tour de Tohoku in 2018, after several years of Nana’s prompting. In 2019, I rode with a friend after José failed to register. The tour was cancelled…
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Two for Tohoku
This year Tomo joined me for the Tour de Tohoku. The route was mostly a new one, and there were a few format changes from last year’s ride. Rather than having us form in groups with guides fore and aft, we joined a long, snaking queue to walk our bikes through an inspection point where…
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Boxed in
Now that Kuroko is fit as a fiddle, it’s time to ship her off to Ishinomaki for the Tour de Tohoku. I made arrangements with Seino transport company some time back. They’ve changed their rules and I’m not able to use either the bag I got for last year’s Tour de Tohoko or the bag…
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Maybe there’ll be an escalator
That’s the course for this year’s Tour de Tohoku, coming up in just two weeks. There’s a fair amount of climbing there, but not more than I did on any given day of Lejog. But what’s this little blip near the beginning of the ride? Just to the right of that vertical line: It’s not…
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New jersey for a new Tour de Tohoko
My jersey arrived today for this year’s Tour de Tohoku, which will be Sept. 15. This unnecessary packaging does not spark joy … I won’t be using my newly cleaned Evoc bag to transport Kuroko for the tour, because the delivery company insists on boxes.
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Tour de Tohoko 2019 preview
The routes and entry information for Tour de Tohoku 2019 have been announced. There’s been some reorganization: all rides are on Sunday now, and they’ve done away with the route I rode in 2018. I’m pretty sure I’ll be going for the Kitakami Fondo, a similar distance to last year’s ride but a bit less…
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Some disassembly required
Nana informed me several weeks ago that Seino Kangaroo service was available to have my bike delivered for the Tour de Tohoku. It sounded a lot better than humping the bike up and back on the shinkansen (which I’ve done before — to Kyoto). Unfortunately, I was really busy with other things at the time…
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Game on for Tour de Tohoku!
I got my mail confirmation for the Tour de Tohoku. I’m ecstatic! I never win lotteries. Lots to do now. Need to book the hotel: Nana and her mother are coming along for the trip, although I couldn’t talk Nana into working as a volunteer on the route (much less joining me). I also need…
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I do not hope
The event site used for the Tour de Tohoku has Japanese and English (and Chinese and Korean) language choices. Naturally, I selected English to create my ID. Then once I had my ID, I realized the Tour de Tohoku event was only available in the Japanese section. (It’s there in English, but only for service…