Do The Right Thing

OK, so the raw figures of this ride look pretty sluggish. But I was on Wilf, my Sturdy Commuting Bike, and it was windy (not blowing a hoolie, but enough to slow you down, and somehow ALWAYS in your face). As usual I’d faffed about in the office before heading off for an after-lunch meeting […]

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I was out for a short run on Boxing Day with Huge Dalmatian. This was kind of a warm-up for the Pudding Run . . . and because even though it was technically only a fun run, I still had the “Oooooh! It’s race day!” feeling that’d got me out of bed far too early.
ANYWAY […]

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I’ve had some more fun with my camera-attached-to-bike. Now, I can show you what plays in my head when I’m cycling:

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So yesterday I had a meeting in Sunderland in the early evening. I could have driven the car, but to get through the Tyne Tunnel at 5:30 would have meant a journey time of almost an hour. So I cycled, doing the trip in 48 minutes
I also fixed my camera to my bike’s […]

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Well I’d meant to take my camera out for a run this evening to take some photos of this route. But what with one thing and another, I didn’t get out before dusk, and although my camera’s CCD is sensitive to infra red, I figured that a series of weird B&W photos of my run […]

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After reading about Jeff’s ride at the weekend, and looking at his photos (great, great photos, taken with a cellphone!), I wonder if this is the time of year when the best photos of wherever you run / cycle / jog / walk are out there just waiting to be taken. I mean, […]

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Aha - I’ve stolen Karl’s blog and am guest editing for the weekend.
I love coming up North away from the big smoke as I always manage to truly relax and chill out, and Hobbe’s and his lovely wife always look after me really well, except for this morning.
Karl was off on his […]

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I didn’t do this year’s run. Actually I’ve not done it for seven years - tough course and lots and lots and lots of people make this more of a fun run.
Anyway, one of Wife’s friends from back when she used to be a civil servant DID run the race, so Daughter and I went […]

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Shockingly enough, Tall Friend beat me, and by only 19 seconds!
The splits (which include T1 & T2 somewhere) were:
Karl: 209th out of 542: Swim 10:01 / Bike 46:59 / Run 22:24 / Total 1:19:24
Tall Friend: 203rd out of 542: swim 8:07 / Bike 48:13 / Run 22:45 / Total 1:19:05
So on the face of it, […]

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Today is a rest day, as tomorrow morning it’s the North Tyneside 10K road race. This is a great run for an Easter Sunday, but not very fast partly because of the course (always into a headwind - I’ve no idea how), but mostly because of the scenery, which isn’t condusive to concentrating on your […]

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