Fitness

Remember the story about the cobbler’s son always going unshod? Yeah, well last night I had a discussion with Von SmallHaussen about tapering and not over-cooking things a week before our Big Ride together (ooo-er!) So in the spirit of do as I say, not as I do . . . . I’d been out running...
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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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As I said before, today was a trip up to Ashington to visit a prospective new client. I rode Siegfried, and it took about 65 minutes each way - that’s about 30 minutes more than the driving time. But if I’d driven, I would have followed some dull-as-dishwater route along boring motorway-grade roads, and arrived...
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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 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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