Fitness

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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Zappoman recently posted about tunes while you train . . . and I came across Steelwool yesterday, who just “can’t get motivated without music“. Now I’m not sure about this - I worry that the tempo of whatever I listen to would interfere with my concentration. And as for banging techno while I’m on the...
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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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Well, with my time off (all 44...
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It’s at about this point that I lose most of my readers. But here goes anyway . . . Toward the end of last week, I was feeling pretty low. Basically, I was just permanently tired, and really easily fatigued in training - not a good sign. Well, for the last few weeks, I’ve...
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I’m feeling a bit low this evening. I just don’t know what’s wrong with me - I’m just SO tired. OK, I am doing some training pretty much six days a week, and generally fairly early in the morning (starting before 7). There’s also that 125 miles a fortnight on the bike - but that’s...
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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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