Posted on September 5th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
No, that’s not a misquote from some French royalty. It’s the motto of 617 Squadron, whose story was told by Paul Brickhill in The Dam Busters - one of my Thrilling Yarns that I read over the summer.
It was Daughter’s first swimming lesson after the summer break. And although the weather forecast was for ‘rain’, […]
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Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
No, not a bike for training. A bike train:
To build this, you’ll need as many steel-framed bikes as you’ve got friends who’re daft enough to want to ride the bike train. You could do it with aluminium bikes, but you’re going to be welding, which is easy-ish with steel, but the work of the […]
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Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
So Brad’s looking for a tandem to do the STP on next year with his kids. Hmmmm . . . I’m sure there’s more than one junior member of Team Brad. Perhaps what they need is a trandem:
Of course, this could get silly (it hasn’t already?), with a four-, five- or six-seater version, although they’d […]
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Posted on August 27th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
Yeah, I’ve been away for a while. Not, ahem, away - inside, doing time, a six-to-three stretch, a bit of bird, banged up, (fitted up, I say), detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure, doing porridge, sewing mail bags, or even making little rocks out of big rocks.
No. Just away, not blogging. There are some reasons for […]
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Posted on August 12th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
The results from the 2008 Hebburn Triathlon have now been published on tri247.com:
Fat Robbie: 1:07:17 & 85th Overall;
Swim - 8:10 & 121st
Bike & T1 - 37:42 & 89th
Run & T2 - 21:25 & 77th
Me: 1:09:12 & 100th Overall;
Swim - 11:10 & 184th
Bike & T1 - 36:41 & 69th
Run & T2 - 21:21 & 75th
So there […]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Karl On Sea
. . . my just-like-I-do-it-in-training T2 had opened up about another 15 seconds on Robbie, putting me a total of about 25 seconds on the road ahead of him, and 1:35 behind him in the race. Could I make that up on the run?
As I set out from T2, I was already starting to do […]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Karl On Sea
. . . so Fat Robbie was about a minute or so ahead of me on the bike, on a two-lap course of 12 miles . . .
. . . by just under half way around the first lap, I’d closed the gap a little - there’s a stretch of the course where you do […]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Karl On Sea
Robbie and I had both wangled early starts for the race - I was in at No. 19, setting off at 7:39, and he was No. 23, two minutes behind me. Fat Robbie’s a slightly faster swimmer than me, so I’d reckoned that we’d both be out of the water together.
Not so. Last year my […]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Karl On Sea
I got the idea for doing this back in 2007, when I read about it on Adrian Fitch’s blog. Seeing as VonSmallHaussen lives only a short distance from the start, we could combine a visit to see her with a little light cycling:
119 miles. Actually my first century ride ever. Actually, 50% further than I’ve […]
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Posted on July 6th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
. . . a reproduction from an email summary I sent to a friend this evening:
I finished with a time of 6hrs 2 mins - and not in last place. Splits:
Swim (2000m) 55mins - last out of the water
T1: 2:30 or so
Bike (58 miles) 3h 22mins. Freezing cold rain for all but the […]
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