Archive for August, 2008

This thing about cyclists not stopping for red lights seems to go on an on and on. When you’re sitting inside your air-conditioned SUV / open-topped sports car / beaten-up 1987 Volvo, and you get to a red light, you have to stop. Everyone knows that - apart from minicab drivers. But then you...
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No, not a bike for training. A bike train: To build this, you’ll need as many steel-framed bikes as you’ve got friends who’re daft enough to want to ride the bike train. You could do it with aluminium bikes, but you’re going to be welding, which is easy-ish with steel, but the work of...
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So Brad’s looking for a tandem to do the STP on next year with his kids. Hmmmm . . . I’m sure there’s more than one junior member of Team Brad. Perhaps what they need is a trandem: Of course, this could get silly (it hasn’t already?), with a four-, five- or six-seater version, although...
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Yeah, I’ve been away for a while. Not, ahem, away - inside, doing time, a six-to-three stretch, a bit of bird, banged up, (fitted up, I say), detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure, doing porridge, sewing mail bags, or even making little rocks out of big rocks. No. Just away, not blogging. There are some reasons...
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No, I’ve never worn spandex hot pants. Well, there was once, but that was a long time ago. What I have in common with Abba is that I’m famous in Sweden. Actually, I have no idea if Abba are actually famous in Sweden, or if they were just an export phenomenon. Anyway. Whatever. I’m famous for...
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The results from the 2008 Hebburn Triathlon have now been published on tri247.com: Fat Robbie:   1:07:17 & 85th Overall; Swim - 8:10 & 121st Bike & T1 - 37:42 & 89th Run & T2 - 21:25 & 77th Me:  1:09:12 & 100th Overall; Swim - 11:10 & 184th Bike & T1 - 36:41 & 69th Run & T2 - 21:21 & 75th So...
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Today was the Hebburn Triathlon! Fat Robbie came up for the race, and as I’d managed to get us Early o’clock starts again, we had to get up at the crack of dawn. Yawn. Seeing as I’ve got this niggling plantar frasciitis injury, I decided to take the race nice and easy - more of...
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. . . my just-like-I-do-it-in-training T2 had opened up about another 15 seconds on Robbie, putting me a total of about 25 seconds on the road ahead of him, and 1:35 behind him in the race. Could I make that up on the run? As I set out from T2, I was already starting to...
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 . . . so Fat Robbie was about a minute or so ahead of me on the bike, on a two-lap course of 12 miles . . . . . . by just under half way around the first lap, I’d closed the gap a little - there’s a stretch of the course where you...
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Robbie and I had both wangled early starts for the race - I was in at No. 19, setting off at 7:39, and he was No. 23, two minutes behind me. Fat Robbie’s a slightly faster swimmer than me, so I’d reckoned that we’d both be out of the water together. Not so. Last year...
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