Archive for July, 2007

. . . . all things are relative. I’m not really a fitness coach, but I am giving a friend a helping hand, which began this morning. After last night’s swim and cycling, it just wasn’t in me to get up early today to go for a run before meeting Shana for her first step...
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We had some friends round for dinner on Saturday, and we got into a conversation about fitness. One of the women at the table said she’d really like to be fit (to which I of course replied, “well, you’re not such a bad looker . . .” - can’t take me anywhere more than...
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So last week when I went for my Wednesday morning run, I got to the gates of the Tyne’s North Pier, and found ‘em still locked at ten to eight in the morning. This meant that instead of me rambling on for 80 seconds, you got the rare treat of the video of the...
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Yesterday I was looking around the Fixed Gear bikes Gallery to see if Trixie’d made it onto the site, and I came across a short film about a guy who plainly just doesn’t know when to stop. Take a look at the film, and think about this next time you’re feeling de-motivated - if he...
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So the Tour De France started in England this weekend. And the first stage was through Kent, where I grew up. And I went to school in Rochester, one of the towns on the route. And my parents still live in Chatham, one of the towns on the route.  But right now, I live...
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I’ve done a bad thing. I’ve submitted three photos of Trixie The Fixie to the Fixed Gear Gallery. I know I said that I wouldn’t, but we went out for a ride today, and I had just so much fun that I wanted to show everyone what I’ve got. And now I feel like I’ve...
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Hey! Guess what!? It wasn’t raining on my run this morning! So for a change, I headed south along the coast, planning on the 5 mile round trip to the end of the North pier of the Tyne’s harbour. I even took my camera along, planning to record a short ‘Hello’ to y’all from...
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So I went for a short swim this evening. Just 300m. Hardly worth a blog posting, or even a log book entry. Except this is the place where I went for the swim. The satellite image shows the tide out - high tide tonight was at 18:30, just before I got wet. So I was in...
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 . . . already mentioned in the previous post about the weekend’s party. However the highlight is that there was more work on stroke count, with the challenge to hold within 3 strokes of our best over 50m intervals, and then to take one stroke off our best for 25m. So I ended up...
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So over the weekend was Tall Friend’s Son’s christening. On Saturday night, the Little Fella was looked after by his grandparents, which meant that us youngsters (these things are all relative) could have a party. Three good reasons for this - wetting the baby’s head is an excellent tradition; Tall Friend’s Wife is now...
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