Ashington

Spin classes. Kinda fun . . . and you get out of breath and you sweat a lot. And there’s the sort of music that I’d usually run a mile from, but it just adds to the fun. BUT… I’m not sure spin classes are that good for your cycling - for two reasons: I pedal...
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So my plan today was to ride 40 miles. With the weather forecast sunny with light winds, it finally looked like I’d get to go outside and play. The initial idea was to ride south west towards Consett and into the wind, and then get an easy ride home. But out walking Huge Dalmatian,...
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Another Monday, another session in the pool. As I’m still in the Prep Phase of my training, I was concentrating on technique again - 200m warm-up, 500m of various Total Immersion drills (both with the Fist Gloves on), and then 200m of full stroke. One of my clients, Gary from Tri Northumberland was also...
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I actually don’t have any bikes that are suitable for riding on either loose snow, or ice. Yeah, I know I could get / borrow a mountain bike, and then either buy or DIY some studded tyres for it. If I really wanted to, I could ride in this weather. But after my experiences last year,...
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We had a discussion in the office on Monday between the Business Coaches - we’d noticed that some clients have great aspirations, but low levels of commitment, and as a result don’t seem to get what they want. Others are all but unstoppable - they need no geeing up from us, and we see them...
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First swim of the New Year, and I wanted to get to the pool good and early to beat the New Year’s Resolution Rush. So I was out of bed an hour before the heating comes on - the house was so cold that I was shivering while I shaved (though I managed NOT...
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It’s a strange job that I do. Today I was at BBC Radio Newcastle for a bit of chat about triathlons. It’d been organised by Keith from Highlights PR , who does the business for our team of enterprise coaches . I would have cycled into the studio, but I had good reason not to: For...
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In no particular order for today . . . Riding along and finding myself in the middle of a flock of flying seaguls. Thankfully none of them got too frightened Watching the jackdaws gang up on a crow and "caw" him off the top of the lamp post Dew on the rosehips The family of swans on the...
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We took a walk around the retail end of Ashington today at lunch time to see how the businesses were doing, and what they were facing in terms of competition from the new Cylon Mothership Asda-Walmart store that opened this Monday. Passing through the bus station, I saw these: What are these? Well, look...
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