Triathlon Training Planner

Is this the world's best Excel-based Triathlon Training Planner?

Available from my Buy Triathlon Planner NowKagi store for just £6.49 (about $10):

Search This Site




Latest Story

Friday Caption Contest: Hi-Viz Edition

January 27, 2012
Friday Caption Contest: Hi-Viz Edition

First up, a big “well done” to everyone who entered our last competition. Sadly it was too hard to pick a single winner, so you all have permission to go out for a Jolly Nice Ride this weekend. Take some sandwiches, pack your Thermos, and make sure you’re all back in time for tea,...
Read more »

Police Are Appealing For Witnesses…

January 26, 2012

…after this dramatic footage of a child abduction was released by kidnappers: As you can see, the plucky kid makes a break for it at 1:30, but was brought down by the pack of Lycra-clad snatchers. The kidnappers have issued their demands: “We want some great carbon wheels, ceramic bearings (’cos, they totally make a difference), the...
Read more »

Watching A Bike Decompose One Day At A Time

January 24, 2012

I was in New York in the summer of 2005, and one morning found myself in a bookshop flicking through a book of photos of bikes left locked up on the city’s streets. It showed their decline over time from usable transport, to components, to scrap metal. It was depressing, yet fascinating stuff. Anyway, someone’s...
Read more »

New Key Ring - From The OTHER Love Of My Life

January 24, 2012
New Key Ring - From The OTHER Love Of My Life

When I was 18, the woman who’s now Wife gave me one of those leather thong bracelet things. I wore it ’till it started to fall apart, and for the last few years its remains were used as my...
Read more »

Dead Frog

January 23, 2012
Dead Frog

No - not this kind of dead frog, though it does look like an ideal isotonic, carbohydrate-based drink for after a long (or short) ride… No - I mean my Knog Frog Strobe. I was given a red one last...
Read more »

“I’m Getting Paid To Wear This Hat”

January 23, 2012

Just too funny - The Shit Cyclists Say, via peopleforbikes.org:
Read more »

Winter Cycling Gear

January 18, 2012
Winter Cycling Gear

Man it was cold this evening! I was forced (literally forced) to wear some extra, technical garments to keep warm: A “fleece” under my jacket. This is a bit like a jumper, but made of some sort of man-made fibre....
Read more »

Gene Hackman Slightly Injured

January 16, 2012

Apparently, he was riding a bike and struck from behind by a pickup truck. It seems that he wasn’t wearing a helmet, and as one observer commented, “If Gene Hackman had been wearing a helmet he would be alive today…” Bicycle...
Read more »

This Cyclist Is Freaking Me Out

January 14, 2012

There’s something beautiful about a tandem. The way the captain & stoker’s legs are in sync… Heck - even politicians have to agree & work together to keep things moving forward… There have been some improvements in tandem technology over...
Read more »

The Price Of A Lighter Bike

January 14, 2012
The Price Of A Lighter Bike

This blog post starts out quite sensibly, but persevere - there’s some silliness at the end… Some people are still obsessed with the weight of their bikes. I reckon it costs between 50p and £1 per gramme to lighten a...
Read more »

Cycle Path With Knobs On

January 13, 2012
Cycle Path With Knobs On

Remember my favourite cycle path on the route into Newcastle? How could one possibly improve on this? It needs more chutzpah, more pizzazz. In an ideal world, we’d get out our blue paint, and make it look like a Proper Piece...
Read more »

Friday Caption Contest: Electric Car Edition

January 13, 2012
Friday Caption Contest: Electric Car Edition

Yep - Electric cars are here to save us all. And to celebrate, we have a picture of one for you to caption. Apparently this driver, “…was involved in an accident at a nearby intersection. For some reason, the driver...
Read more »

Which Bike Would You Recommend?

January 11, 2012
Which Bike Would You Recommend?

I was at one of those breakfast networking meetings this morning, and got chatting to a woman who’s got some money to spend on the Bike To Work scheme. She lives about a five minute drive from work, and...
Read more »

When You’re Running Late…

January 11, 2012
When You’re Running Late…

You know that McCracken’s First Law applies: The strength of the headwind is directly proportional to how late you are. If you try to cheat, by grabbing a quicker, sleeker, lighter bike (reasoning that you’ll easily make up the time required...
Read more »

Where Is My Pashley?

January 10, 2012
Where Is My Pashley?

No - it’s not been stolen. This is just a little game for anyone around Tyneside. All you have to do is correctly identify these locations I visited yesterday. There’s a prize of course - you’ll get to feel...
Read more »

I’d Cycle To Work, But I May Get Wet

January 9, 2012

Nope. I’ve watched this twice now, and the only word that pops into my head is “crazy”: Hat Tip to @theconchdotcom on that Twitter for this one.
Read more »

Damage To Cycle Path From The Great South Tyneside Earth Quake

January 9, 2012
Damage To Cycle Path From The Great South Tyneside Earth Quake

That would be one explanation for this. Or maybe that this cycle path is constructed directly over a mine shaft. Or a ley-line?: Alternatively, maybe the contract for the path was awarded to the lowest bidder, who then decided that...
Read more »

Doing It By Bike in Whitley Bay: Scrap metal collection

January 6, 2012
Doing It By Bike in Whitley Bay: Scrap metal collection

This is Stanley - I met him in North Shields while riding home to Whitley Bay today: I had to stop him and talk to him because of the bike he was riding: Like other people around here, he scours the...
Read more »

Today Is National BMW-Bashing Day

January 2, 2012
Today Is National BMW-Bashing Day

Last time I wrote about this subject, a whole bunch of people got offended. Apparently, it’s not fair to make sweeping generalisations. So I won’t be mentioning that BMW drivers are top the the ranking for abusing and misusing their...
Read more »

Don’t. Look. Down.

January 2, 2012

This via Treadly and Me: There are probably ageing mountainbikers out there who’d call this a piece of “gnarly single-track”. Just watching the video scares the Bejasus out of me. I look at it and I start to feel light-headed...
Read more »

The Trouble With Half-Way Decent Cycle Paths

January 1, 2012
The Trouble With Half-Way Decent Cycle Paths

… is that they’re just the right width to drive a car up: Doubtless paying “road tax” also allows one to use any available asphalt surface, even if it probably hasn’t been designed to take the weight of a car. Because...
Read more »