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You can read the official race report on the NE31 Tri Club’s pages. Their web site’s a got lots of flash in it, so I can’t provide a direct link to the page. So click through the navigation to “Results” under “Hebburn Triathlon”. There were some astonishing times posted in the battle for overall race...
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So this morning I went the long way round on Trixie the Fixie to Walker, via the Tyne Foot Tunnel, Hebburn, Gateshead, and Newcastle’s Swing Bridge. As I approached the tunnel, I overtook a guy on some sort of suspension bedecked mountain bike thing. He was cycling in riggers’ boots, but going along at a...
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So the plan today was to get up early and put in a 50 mile ride before the rest of the family were even up and about. Funny how things have a habit of not working out as intended - Daughter was ill last night, and we spent the night rather sleeplessly looking after...
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Yesterday afternoon, we had to take our Huge Dalmatian to the vet - he’s been having trouble with his ears, and the off the shelf ear drops / cleaning stuff just wasn’t making things any better. The vet’s in Tynemouth - about a two mile walk along the sea front each way. So I walked...
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It’s that point in the season when I feel I’m on a treadmill, not wanting to go on, and desperate not to get off . . . “All right, this is the plan. We’ll get in there and get wrecked. Then we’ll eat a pork pie. Then we’ll go home, and drop a couple of...
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People who steal bikes are prize @£$€-holes. I’ve only ever had one taken, and given the attachment I end up feeling for my rides, it was something that really hurt. Worse still was the fact that it was my dad’s bike, so I had to tell him that I’d got his...
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Our entry confirmations for the Hebburn Triathlon arrived in the post today. This is a pool-based race, and the general form for these is that the starting order is from fastest to slowest swimmers, so that there’s no bunching-up  overtaking in the pool. I think there must have been some sort of crazy mix-up though....
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So last week when I went for my Wednesday morning run, I got to the gates of the Tyne’s North Pier, and found ‘em still locked at ten to eight in the morning. This meant that instead of me rambling on for 80 seconds, you got the rare treat of the video of the...
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I’ve done a bad thing. I’ve submitted three photos of Trixie The Fixie to the Fixed Gear Gallery. I know I said that I wouldn’t, but we went out for a ride today, and I had just so much fun that I wanted to show everyone what I’ve got. And now I feel like I’ve...
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There must be something in the water - like The ZappoMan, I had to force myself to get on the bike this morning to blow away some of last night’s cobwebs - in my case a little too much of that nice fizzy French wine, washed down with some other wine (hic!) And also like...
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