Cycling

So three weeks ago, I was in the lead up for our trip to France, and did no road miles. And then in France for a week without the bike - another duck. And then last week, no opportunity for any road miles either. I realised last night that it was looking like I was...
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Not such a busy training week, this week - lots of work to get done, as well as preparing to be away for the next ten days. We had friends up last weekend . . . and did some local tourist things - visiting Hadrian’s Wall on Saturday (COLD and WET - in fact too...
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The police visited the address I gave them last week and caught the burglars mostly red-handed with their booty. Confessions and convictions obtained more or less on the spot. Another crime cleared up by a wanna-be super hero! I just hope I’m not as annoying as Scrappy Smegging Doo.
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I’ve just been browsing through Zappoman’s archives (I know - so much time on my hands), and found that he seemed to really like my idea of a cycling progress wall chart, even going so far as to suggest that it could be monitored via a webcam. I’m not quite that tech-savvy, but I...
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or so the urban myth goes . . . and today, I think I’ve experienced about seven of them!: The snow that falls in relatively warm air as sleet, and then freezes to knobbly ice when it hits the really cold road The snow that falls on top of that, but only in the lightest of...
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I have Reynaud’s disease - and have had for about the last 20 years. What this means is that if my fingers get cold (or a sudden localised cold shock - like holding a cold stearing wheel in an otherwise warming car), the circulation shuts down. They go really ugly yellow / white / blue,...
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It snowed here last night! I felt six years old again this morning when I set off at 06:10 for the pool. Unfortunately, the snowy conditions meant that I took things a lot slower (road rash is just so unflattering) than I’d have otherwise done - by the time I got there, I decided...
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Found this on Adrian Finch’s Random Rambling blog, and he in turn found it on How to Avoid the Bummer Life, but it’s just so incredible, I have to have it here too. It features Neil Tunnicliffe doing some unbelievable hops and jumps on a bike. Watch the film to the end . ....
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I know - Yoda would criticise me for not focusing on the present, but, well, I had this thought . . . On Phil Sabin’s great Fitness Over Forty blog today, he was quite rightly celebrating hitting his January target of 300 bike miles. Well, waistloss left a comment, saying that he’d  ” . . ....
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I was going to cycle there . . . and then into tomorrow’s client’s office . . . and the into Newcastle for The Bridge Club (GREAT networking) . . . before heading home. But it’s forecast to be blowing 29mph tomorrow, and my legs are just about done in after this morning’s spin...
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