Cycle

It’s summer. That should mean that I don’t have to do training rides in the pouring rain. I’m pretty sure about this too. So when I looked at the weather forecast on Friday night, and saw that Sunday was scheduled to be WET, I decided to throw caution to the wind and do my big...
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There’s a first time for everything, and tonight I managed not to get a bottle back into it’s cage, and see go rolling across the road. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty fussy about my water bottles - I like these Addidas Elite ones, because they hold 750ml, have a good...
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Nearly there - today was the last long training ride I’ll do prior to the Ironman. Just two weeks of taper and then its race week. Eeek! The forecast was for hot and sunny weather, and having learned my lesson about sunburn, I set out at 6:30 slathered up with the Aloe Gator...
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Before you panic, not it wasn’t me who actually got killed by a car - it was a fluffy bunny-wunnie. So let’s get my near-miss out of the way first. I was riding north up the coast into the wind, early on today’s bank holiday. The roads were deserted at a time in the morning...
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The plan I had was simple. Ride just shy of 100 miles with a couple of hills (but nothing silly) on a nice warm day. Take minimal provisions, aiming to meet up with some friendlies at a location sent to me as a Google pin-drop on the map, and top up after a couple...
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I was supposed to hobble round the corner to the Rockcliffe Arms last night for a beer with Yves. But at nine o’clock, he texted me, saying that he and Swiss Nic had moved the venue to Seaton Sluice, and we were riding. Bearing in mind I’d just run 21 miles, I was not initially...
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So most of the way home (sweaty, fly encrusted, and generally a bit of a mess), I got overtaken by someone on a nice new hybrid - skinny tyres, disk brakes, and Lycra shorts. I was tempted to just let him go . . . but I’m just five week’s from race day, and starting...
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No idea why. I took with me to eat . . . A banana (172 cals), three of Wife’s flapjacks (3 x 285 cals), a mini Mars bar (300 cals) and five gels (5 x 107 cals) of which I only ate 2 (-3 x 107 cals). Total = 1,541 cals. *Burp* Sounds like a whole lot...
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Thursday is bike day for work, and again I had a whole lot of time with clients scheduled - at their premises rather than mine, so that meant sensible, civilised cycling. I’m sure I could have planned this better, but I ended up doing nearly 40 miles . . . . . . and...
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65 mile bike ride: Just exactly how can the chuffing wind be in my face the whole way round? And given that it’s nearly the middle of May, why is it so sodding cold? And why are the road surfaces still in such shamefully poor condition? And how come no-one told me that when the sun shines,...
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