Cycle

I had to go and visit three separate companies yesterday, including a new one, where the people don’t really know me. So I needed to take a full change of clothes, as well as the laptop, cables, camera, etc, etc. For most of the last few months, I’ve been riding Trixie the Fixie or Gina...
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We’ll get to exactly why my bike’s possessed later . . . Today was the Hebburn / Tyne & Wear Fire Service Triathlon. It’s my local club’s race, and in the spirit of giving as well as taking from club membership, I kinda had to turn up early to help with getting the event set...
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If you’ve not read “Not Normal Behaviour” by Stuart Staples, do get hold of a copy. It’s a great book, telling the story of Stuart’s journey from observing DIY to Ironman. Anyway, he seems to have had an odd habit of going out drinking very close to races. I don’t think this is big, or...
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Well, not quite - I had to go to the shops today for some last minute emergency supplies. And there was no way I was going to walk! Workout: Type: Cycle Date: 08/02/2007 Total Time: 00:57:00.00 Distance: 17.2 miles Average Speed: 18.11 mph
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So this morning I went the long way round on Trixie the Fixie to Walker, via the Tyne Foot Tunnel, Hebburn, Gateshead, and Newcastle’s Swing Bridge. As I approached the tunnel, I overtook a guy on some sort of suspension bedecked mountain bike thing. He was cycling in riggers’ boots, but going along at a...
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So the plan today was to get up early and put in a 50 mile ride before the rest of the family were even up and about. Funny how things have a habit of not working out as intended - Daughter was ill last night, and we spent the night rather sleeplessly looking after...
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It’s a beautiful day today . . . so I did an indoor brick at the gym. No, not just to be perverse, but because I have stuff to do today AND yesterday was kinda hard work. So I knew that getting out of bed without a real deadline would be hard. The answer to...
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Well, the bike shop managed to fix Gina’s loose nipple (ooo-er) pretty quickly, and as I’m going to be racing three times in the next six weeks, I decided to fit my cheep & tacky aerobars last night. I’m being good with my money at the moment (actually it’s the bank’s money, but you...
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I went for a somewhat long way round trip to my clients’ on Tuesday, involving some reasonably serious hills. I think I ended up messing up my hydration though, despite having a count-down timer on the handlebars to remind me to drink every ten minutes: After two hours’ cycling, I’d drunk less than 1.5 litres. I...
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Workout: Type: Cycle Date: 07/23/2007 Total Time: 1:35:00.00 Distance: 27 miles Average Speed: 17.05 mph
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