Do The Right Thing

Last night I went to the pool, and had one of those Road to Damascus moments.
I was swimming groups of lengths, interspersed with Total Immersion drills, which concentrated on my left-side breathing. Since the drills are pretty slow lengths of the pool, I kept out of the roped off lane and in the main pool […]

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I’ve had the feeling all week that I was building up for a dehydration problem. Sure, I’ve been taking about 3/4 of a litre of my funky rehydration mix with me on every ride . . . and finishing it. But with the weather getting a little warmer, and the workouts a little longer (and […]

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I’ve been struck the last few days about how much of a role technique plays in changing your race day from an ordeal into a tough, but very enjoyable experience.
In swimming, my freestyle is really starting to come together (I know you’ve heard that before, but it’s true), so much so that it’s now considerably […]

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One of my biggest heroes is . . .
. . . a little Japanese chap who died in 1990, and was one of the founders of, and leading experts on the Toyota Production System - the TPS.
Shigeo Shingo
He was one of the production engineering geniuses who in post-war Japan reversed a 10:1 productivity gap […]

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So here’s the problem. Most of the triathlon / fitness blogs I read are written by real people. People like you or me. And they do really amazing things.
At the moment, I’m not even a triathlete at all - it’s more than 12 months since I last got painted, dunked, wind dried and pounded. So […]

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OK, so Whitley Bay is hardly The Big City, but while I was out today, I had several of those moments of clarity that only come from either monetary sobriety in a drunk, or every darned day on a bike for the rest of us.

Seeing the flowers growing right next to the road that were […]

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Today I had to visit three customer sites - one in Walker, one in Sunderland, and one just up the road from home. Unfortunately, our car’s suspension went ‘pop’ at the weekend, so the car was in the garage . . .

So I had to go by bike!
To prove that this evening I […]

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The Urban Commuter posted an excellent, thought-provoking article at the beginning of this month on the hows and whys of many accidents involving cyclists (and others):
Cycling London - Urban Commuting by Bike: Average Car Drivers Don’t Intend To…
I was reminded today of this when I was out walking out huge dalmation. A cyclist came bowling […]

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They give you . . . . um . . . . gas / wind / etc. It might have something to do with the quantity I’ve been eating - dunno.
That’s all.

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The Giant SCR LTD
I went back to the excellent Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative (artwork, left, from their site) in Byker (no, really) at lunch time today, and asked ‘em if I could have a go of the Giant with aerobars on. So they fitted a set of Profile T2+ aerobars for me (this took three […]

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