Do The Right Thing

I was going to multi-task a family picnic at the reservoir with a swim-bike session. But then the huge ride up from Gabian through Fos and to Montesquieu had been all up-hill and into the wind (OK, it wasn’t really so huge, but it felt like it!), and I saw snakes swimming in the reservoir […]

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Just the facts:

10k in the late afternoon of another showery, but warm day. My usual route from Gabian to Fouzillhon and Pouzolles
Took just one x 500ml bottle of diluted fruit juice in the back pocket of my waist belt thingie
Bottle wasn’t upright and leaked, leaving me in a sticky mess from the hips down
Quite pleased […]

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Despite my training plan having Sunday 1st June down for being hungover, I felt fit as a fiddle. It was just that the weather was awful. I held off for as long as possible, hoping for the rain to stop, but it just went on and on, so in the end, I headed out to […]

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So I was so impressed with the pool in Montpellier that I persuaded my 15 year-old nephew to come for a swim . . . a thousand metres. For him, this was a BIG deal. So we broke the task down into manageable chunks:
1000m = only 10 laps of a 50m pool
1000m = only 20 […]

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We hired a canal boat for the day, and went for a family picnic. I wasn’t expecting this to be much fun (or indeed for the boat to be so big), but as it turns out, it was a great day out. I had a beer at lunchtime, and was just about to have another, […]

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Logbook Activity

Type: Cycle
Date: 05/28/2008
Total Time: 1:30:00.00
Distance: 25 miles
Average Speed: 16.67 mph

This is getting silly - I’m just SO behind with my posts!

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On the second day of our holiday, I did some more multi-tasking. The whole family was going into Montpellier to visit the aquarium. That’s at the end of one of the city’s tram lines . . . and only a few stops up the line is the swimming pool. So while the family were looking […]

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OK, so we’re back from visiting the Outlaws in France. A 2,000 mile round-trip, with three of us in the car, plus Huge Dalmatian, luggage, and two bikes strapped to the boot. Surely that’s gotta count as some sort of ‘other’ exercise in my training log? No? Oh well . . . .
So my Inlaws  […]

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Remember the kid at school who spent ages putting together the perfect exam revision timetable? The one that was colour coded, with each subject highlighted, and every hour of spare time between now and the exams planned out in meticulous detail?
That was me.
Of course, the knack is to schedule the time to plan out the […]

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Wooo wooo wooo! Despite the delays with EasyJet, getting lost on our way out of Geneva, and generally not having had enough sleep, we got to go skiing last Sunday!
Daughter had a private 1:1 lesson with the excellent Sally from the Snow Institute (HIGHLY recommended if you’re staying in Morzine) on Sunday afternoon, and then […]

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