Do The Right Thing

I’d originally intended to do this at Early O’clock on Saturday morning. But after the previous week’s burning the candle at both ends in a pure oxygen environment experience, I opted for a lie in instead. For some reason, 08:00 now counts as a lie in, but there you go.
Anyway, the plan was to do […]

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Nuun: £0.41 for a 500ml drink. This home-made version £0.001!
I probably don’t get enough salt in my diet. I’ve had a couple of leg cramps in the pool recently, and sometimes when I yawn, the muscle under my tongue cramps up badly too. The thing is that we don’t tend to buy many processed foods, […]

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This evening when I got in, Wife & Daughter had just finished baking some brownies. The kitchen smelt fabulous, and I arrived just in time see ‘em come hot out of the oven. Oh, it’s hard being patient under such circumstances!
Anyway, earlier in the week, I was going to cook another batch of the ‘Good […]

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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 up. […]

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I’d planned this week with an eye on the weather forecast, which was for a rainy second half of the week. So I knew that today’s run was going to be wet and windy.
To compensate for this, I dressed like it was winter - a cheap tri-suit as a base layer, track pants, breathable T-shirt, […]

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So as part of my quest to up my triathlon distance, I’m increasing my cycling training distance. Today I had to go & visit a company on Walker Riverside (a 17 mile round trip), and I set out to go the long way round, via Scotswood bridge. That would have made the round trip around […]

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. . . or as the locals might say, “La brique en France”.
Today’s our last day here, and I wanted to ‘go out with a bang’. So I set out for a brick at Olympic distance - 25 mile bike and 10k run. For the bike, I extended the route from earlier in the […]

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So on Sunday we drove down through France. The 07:00 ferry meant an 04:45 start, and then it was 700 miles of mainly motorway driving. Some really bad weather in the plains before the Massifs Centrale (rain like you wouldn’t believe), left us all really tired by the time we arrived in Gabian.
After last week […]

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I think I might be turning into the grandmother from the BBC’s Goodness Gracious Me. Here’s yet another thing I’ve found that I can make myself. All I need is some honey, some peanut butter, a little hot water, and a small aubergine.
Actually you don’t need the aubergine.
This started when I decided it was time […]

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These last two weeks have been murder . . . too much to do, too much time in hotels, and too little time to write about it. I’ll be posting individual details rather than one long rambling stream of drivel, but for now, the highlights include . . .

A road trip to Manchester to visit […]

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