Do The Right Thing

After yesterday’s breakfast disaster, you could be forgiven for thinking that I’m a complete Muppet when it comes to food. But hey, as the saying goes, “the man who never made a mistake never did / learned / achieved anything”.
So here are a few sensible things you can do with porridge (all together now, “Skuurde […]

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I had a great session this afternoon - a full 25k bike and then 5k run. Setting off from Walker, at just after noon, the weather was just perfect. Sunny without much heat, so that I knew I wouldn’t get too hot. I was wearing some long cycling trousers over my ever so attractive tri […]

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I’m getting toward the race season now - my first race is a 10K on Easter Sunday. So the training intensity is increasing, with longer and more strenuous workouts.
After the mess I got myself in earlier in the year, I want to avoid over-training. The key to this is taking the appropriate rest periods AND […]

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There was a great article buried in yesterday’s Sunday Times about how the received wisdom of the last 50 years’ urban road design is set to be overturned. The End of the Road for One-Way Street revealed that the Department of Transport’s new road design guidelines, the Manual for Streets will see streets designed as […]

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Swimming this evening while my daughter was having her lesson (she got the badge!), I did a couple of hundred metres, and then thought I’d better get some practice in with my Total Immersion drills. My free style’s really coming together now, but only with breathing to the right. Breathing to the left is […]

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It’s a fantastic cycling day here today, though I almost didn’t make it - I have a cold (may even be man-flu) at the moment, and when the alarm went off, I was feeling all snotty & chesty. That’s probably more detail than you need.
Anyway, on the way to breakfast, I checked a couple of […]

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Snow and high winds all day yesterday, and up to at least 11:30 when I went to bed did not bode well for taking the old new fixie out for its first longer jaunt today. When I got up, the snow had melted as it hit the roads, and then re-frozen, to be covered by […]

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So I drove to the gym for the 06:45 spin class today - weather still blowing a gale, with snow showers thrown in at no extra cost.
I’ve found that the Kaiser spin bikes have double sided pedals - traditional cage & straps on one side, and SPD on the other, which is nice, because I […]

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The weather forecast for today was unusual for late March - winds in the mid 30 mph’s, temperature barely above freezing, and ice / snow showers. Perfect weather for cycling in fact. But on my sturdy commuting bike, not the fixie. Mainly because I’m a wuss when it comes to that sort of wind, but […]

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I can’t really explain about Charlie - I found his site tonight when I was trawling Ebay for some new old handle bars. High points include . . .

The truth behind global warming
The blog section (sadly no RSS), featuring races with double-scoring bonuses for nakedness
The almost helpful why and how of fixed wheeling

Including a […]

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