Silly Stuff

So Monday was my first full session at the Tri club, out of the learners’ lane and swimming with the big kids. It was 50 minutes of slow drowning - like someone was killing me softly, and just wanted me to stop struggling. I think the trouble was it was an everything but the...
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I found this picture on the truly excellent Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog. It’s just the sort of thing to make Daughter jump up & down and squeal with joy . . . so I had to have it here too: The original was uploaded to Flickr by M-Louis - thank you for putting it...
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Dr Ian Walker carried out some interesting on-the-road research a couple of years back. He was trying to assess the likelihood of a cyclist being involved in a collision under varying circumstances. His central research method was to ride around with a whole bunch of sensors on his bike, which then measured how much...
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So after going for a slide across the tarmac yesterday, I had a distinctly average night’s sleep. My grazes aren’t too deep, and aren’t weeping / oozing / bleeding. But they’re sore enough to interrupt the Sandman. I hadn’t applied any dressings because I think it’s better to let these kinds of grazes just...
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On Saturday the pistes were all really crunchy - a slight thaw on Friday night had been followed by a re-freeze. Ordinarily this wouldn’t be a problem . . . but there were also a whole bunch of day-tripping skiers around, going at it like lunatics. So VonSmallHaussen and I just did a couple...
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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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Did I hear right that you’ve got a week’s skiing coming up? No? Are you sure? I’m certain that someone said something about seven days skiing the massive Three Valleys area - combining Courchevel, Méribel and Val Thorens? Oh, hang on a minute, I can see where I’ve gone wrong - it’s not you, it’s ME...
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I went running with Shana this morning. OK, so I know that I’m officially signed off by the Doc, but I took it really easy, and I honestly think that the cold morning air did me more good than harm. Speaking of the cold, Shana was somewhat layered up - hat, gloves, windstopper, etc. But...
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This is a paraphrase of a headline from The Times from some time in the 50’s or 60’s. The original was “Fog in Channel - Continent Cut Off“, which I guess speaks volumes about Britain’s sense of its place in the world fifty years ago. Anyway, although Heathrow’s been fog-bound for 24 hours, the weather...
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After Sunday’s spin class, I had a quick dip in the pool to cool off. Having first taken a shower, of course - it’s a pool, not a communal bath, after all. Then when I got home, it was back to shifting furniture in preparation for the carpet fitters on Monday. On Saturday, we’d made...
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