Music

The mileage is about to start ramping up, as next week mark’s the start of my training plan’s Base 2 period. I wasn’t feeling too brilliant though, so I took half a litre of fluids with me, and a gel for the turnaround point - from now on all long runs are run /...
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So my plan was to cycle into work on Thursday. But two things prevented this - another freezing night that left the slippier than I’d trust, and more critically, a complete inability to wake up to the alarm. zzzzzzzzz. So I treated myself (and the neighbours) to my...
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. . . check out this great video, which is part of the Fat Cyclist’s 100 Miles of Nowhere challenge: That looks tougher than I have words to describe. But it’s all in a good cause. If you watched the film, go and make a donation now.
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That’s the song by Arcade Fire that plays in my head when I’m riding and the sun is shining and everything seems just perfect. Along similar lines, Yanek over at Bicyclog has put together this smashing vid, showing what a city can be like on days when no cars go. Enjoy!
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Somehow this completely passed me by last year - Change Your World a Sustrans campaign about getting people to use their cars 10% less. Of course, car use actually dropped by 12% last year, though everyone seems to be saying that this was due to the economy going into free-fall. Or as our Prime...
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Third run of the year this evening, and I decided to take along some music. The problem was that I just put some stuff on that grabbed my attention while scrolling down through my iTunes library: Motorvatin’ - Hanio Rocks. Great, but just too up-tempo and bouncy for an opener. The guitar solo had me...
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That David Hembrow’s got me thinking again. He lives just across the sea from me in what looks like Cycling Utopia. I don’t mean that in a sarcastic way either - from the saddle I sit on, the Netherlands, and specifically Assen, look like The Real Deal. Anyway, he posted some photos and a video...
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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...
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I’ve put together a compilation the be the theme music for this year’s skiing. Have I mentioned that I’m going skiing tomorrow for a week? If you’re in the UK, you can see the compilation & listen to samples on the UK iTunes store. For the rest of the world . . . James Bond...
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This morning I was going to run with Shana, but she couldn’t make it, so I decided to go for a swim instead. I think my shoulder’s well and truly on the mend, so it’s time to start pushing the distance a little, and 1,000m seemed like a nice number to try. Not too...
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