Cycling

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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But you can keep your pasta shells, twists, bows, macaroni, and spaghetti. And you can shove your tins of Spaghetti ‘Oops, where the sun don’t shine. From now on, it’s Pasta di Triathlon for me: But if you can’t face the swim, they also do Pasta di Bici (bike only) and Pasta di Maratona (runners...
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According to our local weather forecast, today was the only day of the week where the weather was predicted to be anything other than underwater-rainy. Now, I don’t mind riding in the rain, but it’s 16 miles to work. On Siegfried that takes just over an hour, which...
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This weekend I was supposed to be doing the Coast to Coast. But unfortunately my training buddy had to go to Luxembourg for the week. So Tall Robbie and I did the Great North Bike Ride instead. I was really impressed that he was allowed out to play for this, as it was...
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The injuries I picked up last year in training for the Steelman just aren’t healing by themselves. Basically my plantar fasciitis and achilles tendonitis - both typical running injuries - are getting agrevated / prevented from healing by cycling. And we can’t have that! So today was time for desperate measures - the experienced hands...
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I’m not talking about the kind of bonking that was discussed between bridesmaids under a table in Four Weddings & a Funeral (”Well, it’s kinda like table tennis, only with slightly smaller balls.”) No. I mean the sort that you generally only get when you do some serious endurance sport stuff, and just run out...
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Just a short post here - I started a new job this week, so things have been (& still are) rather hectic over the last ten days or so. But today I went down to That London for the Pickwick Bicycle Club’s President’s Luncheon, as a guest of Carlton Reid, author of the Family Cycling...
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So there’s this crack in the paint on Trixie The Fixie - near the base of the downtube, just about where it enters the bottom bracket’s lug. It’s been bugging me for a while, so a couple of days ago I took a small grinding tool to it to strip off the paint &...
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This story was on the front page of the Evening Chronicle yesterday. Basically I’m writing about it here to make a point . . . HE WAS lucky to survive after smashing into a car while riding his bike. But schoolboy Sam Scott was then threatened with legal action for the damage he caused...
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So for my Important Presentation this morning, I had to go in looking like I meant business - suit, tie, shiny shoes. You know the drill. It was also kinda important to ride there, as I knew this was the sort of thing that would go down well with the audience. This wasn’t a...
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