Archive for May, 2008

So I was so impressed with the pool in Montpellier that I persuaded my 15 year-old nephew to come for a swim . . . a thousand metres. For him, this was a BIG deal. So we broke the task down into manageable chunks: 1000m = only 10 laps of a 50m pool 1000m = only...
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We hired a canal boat for the day, and went for a family picnic. I wasn’t expecting this to be much fun (or indeed for the boat to be so big), but as it turns out, it was a great day out. I had a beer at lunchtime, and was just about to have...
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Workout: Type: Cycle Date: 05/28/2008 Total Time: 1:30:00.00 Distance: 25 miles Average Speed: 16.67 mph This is getting silly - I’m just SO behind with my posts!
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On the second day of our holiday, I did some more multi-tasking. The whole family was going into Montpellier to visit the aquarium. That’s at the end of one of the city’s tram lines . . . and only a few stops up the line is the swimming pool. So while the family were...
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OK, so we’re back from visiting the Outlaws in France. A 2,000 mile round-trip, with three of us in the car, plus Huge Dalmatian, luggage, and two bikes strapped to the boot. Surely that’s gotta count as some sort of ‘other’ exercise in my training log? No? Oh well . . . . So my...
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. . . but I get the point of this video, found by Da Square Wheel Man: The funny thing is, one of the guys at The Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative in Byker has recently grown a mustache just like the one featured in the final shot. Maybe it’s his father in the film . ....
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OK, so I’m now six weeks out from my first half Iron-man race. It’s time to get all those little doubts and niggles about things like bike setup sorted out. My big worry is what handlebar setup to go for on this 58-mile, relatively flat course, and I hope YOU can give me some...
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My training’s reached the point where I’ve started to get those weird food cravings. This time, I WON’T be giving in to the temptation to have kippers in porridge, but it did get a little strange tonight. I didn’t have time to finish my supper before heading off to the pool, so I tucked...
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I was at a training workshop today on the other side of Gateshead. For once I was in the audience (throwing soft fruit, insults, etc), and I had a few items to pick up on the way home . . . But Gateshead’s still within 15 miles of home, so I just had to...
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I felt stressed out at work this afternoon, and then noticed that it was almost high tide, and the moon’s pretty full, so it was going to be a high tide. So I went for a swim in the sea. What I didn’t notice was that there was quite a swell, so my swim...
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