Do The Right Thing

Not such a good ride on Sunday - not sure why, but I just couldn’t find my rhythm.
When I got a puncture at the 18-mile mark, I was pretty cheesed off. You just wouldn’t believe the thorn that had gone through the tyre - I couldn’t pull it out from the inside with [...]

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OK Folks, here it is: The final version of the Excel Triathlon Training Planner!
What it’s for:
Planning the training for large events (marathons, Ironman races, ultra-races, your first half-marathon etc), or for a series of smaller races (a whole bunch of 10k races in a year, or several sprint triathlons, etc) can be really [...]

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Yep - I had a great Friday night:

Home from work early, "because of the snow"
Walk with Daughter & Huge Dalmatian
Did my long run for the week with my DIY ice shoes on. This was a great run, including abourt 2 miles away from the roads along snowy footpaths. Cold, dark and silent, this was one [...]

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We had a discussion in the office on Monday between the Business Coaches - we’d noticed that some clients have great aspirations, but low levels of commitment, and as a result don’t seem to get what they want.
Others are all but unstoppable - they need no geeing up from us, and we see them when [...]

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Here are the official unwritten* rules of weather forecasting if you’re going to be riding a bike:

The official weather forecast is always wrong. It is always cycling weather.
If you’re in any doubt about the Met Office’s nameless supercomputer ’s accuracy, you might be tempted to opt for more traditional methods - a bit of seaweed [...]

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I started riding again because I realised that doing the same thing, but expecting different results is a pretty workable definition of insanity.
It suddenly struck me about four years ago that sitting inside a tin box going no-where fast, and expecting everyone else to get out of my way wasn’t working. And that expecting more [...]

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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 Minister [...]

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Show these two films to your friends who don’t ride bikes:
a) The Plight of The American Biped (via Tom Vanderbilt & EcoVelo amongst others):

Vs
b) Happy Birthday, Velib!

Ask which society they’d rather live in. On the assumption they answer b), ask when they’re going to [get a bike] and ride it to work / school / [...]

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Andy over at Carbon Trace is a big fan of the One Mile Solution. An astonishing proportion of the journeys most people make by car are within less than a mile of where they live, so the solution is to replace a few / some / all of these by walking or riding a bike.
To [...]

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So I posted earlier about how these two guys have done over 100,000 bike miles, and how although this is a long way (a very long way), it’s actually quite conceivable to accumulate that sort of mileage through your regular life.
Well, here’s an example of what I mean, taken from last Saturday:

08:45 - meeting with [...]

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