Everyday People

Wife was heading off out today to deliver some of her cards to a shop in Tynemouth, and then to head up to Monkseaton library to drop off some postcards publicising the Whitley Bay Book Group she’s starting for New Writing North. Naturally, she was riding, so as she set off I took a couple...
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I’ve been feeling tired all day . . . probably something to do with the mental anguish of having done my Tax Return at lunch time. Anyway, in the afternoon, I did some work swapping gates around for our back yard (so now, you can get ANY bike out without having to jiggle the handlebars...
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On our last morning in the Alps, I took a short run down to La Tania to pop our last few post cards in the post box. I ran back up to the chalet along the open ski-runs, and did two good turns for the day: There’s a flat section from the village centre to...
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So I’m a bit late writing this up. You just wouldn’t believe how much work had piled up in the week we had away skiing. There were no ski lessons on Saturday, so Daughter and I heade off up the lifts & over the mountain to Courchevel 1850. It seems that in the week we’d...
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Going out for a run this evening was tough, but I made it. I ran around the now closed pistes that encircle La Tania - up the RED Moretta Blanch (steep - hands and knees for the last 100m or so), across the GREEN Plan Fontaine, and then down the BLUE Folyères. If I can...
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After a day with Daughter, I was just completely beat. All I could manage was an extended jog around La Tania - out on the road up towards Méribel, and then back in on the last turning for the village for some getting lost on trails leading back to the pistes and home. Just so,...
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I still had to do my daily run on Wednesday, even though Algernond and I had just been skiing across the whole of the Three Valleys. Somewhere around 30 miles or so on our skis, and somewhat less in various lifts along the way. So I did an ‘easy’ road run - up towards Méribel...
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Tuesday this week, and the ATM in La Tania was out of order again. An ideal opportunity to run down to Le Praz, and around the village, looking for the hole in the wall. Workout: Type: Run Date: 01/13/2009 Total Time: 00:30:00.00 Calories: 392 Distance: 3 miles Average Pace: 10:00/mile
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I had a spare half hour today, where I could go for a run, and be back in time to pick Daugher up from her Ski school. So that’s just what I did - running down the red piste to La Tania central, and then along the road to Le Praz. This was a...
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You know those days where you have a deadline that cannot be missed? And unlike Douglas Adams, you can’t just admire the ‘wooshing’ sound it makes as it passes? Yeah. Well, I had that sort of day yesterday. I had to . . . Finish off the periscope for my rugged video camera. Periscope? What!?!! Well...
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