Posted on September 5th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
No, that’s not a misquote from some French royalty. It’s the motto of 617 Squadron, whose story was told by Paul Brickhill in The Dam Busters - one of my Thrilling Yarns that I read over the summer.
It was Daughter’s first swimming lesson after the summer break. And although the weather forecast was for ‘rain’, […]
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
Cycling in to my client’s office this morning, I had two near misses - both situations that I could have almost certainly avoided by riding more assertively, and holding my line.
In the first, I was approaching roundabout, where the lane nearest the kerb splits into two - the left (3 in the picture) is for […]
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Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
My swimming buddy Simon, couldn’t make it last night, so I decided to go for a ride instead. It was one of those ups & downs rides, with the highs provided by favourable wind on the way home, and the lows from eejits in a car.
Let’s deal with the lows first. About six miles from […]
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Posted on June 19th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
Shana and I went for an easy run this morning - down to Tynemouth and back. I’d wanted to go out along the North pier of the Tyne, but the gate wasn’t yet open, so we just cut the run short a little.
The first stretch of the return journey is to run up the bank […]
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Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
I’d very nearly got out of the habit of blogging. And that can’t be a good thing. But at last, I’ve caught up, so from now on, I’ll be posting it as it happens. Or fairly shortly afterwards, anyway.
So this morning was a run with Shana - we went down towards North Shields, and then […]
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Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
Yesterday the weather was forecast to be mostly good, and I had a meeting scheduled with a client that my SatNav said was only 36 miles away by bike. Hmmm . . . with fuel prices now at £1.30 a litre (that’s $9.60 for a US gallon) (So all you in the USA moaning […]
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Posted on May 19th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
I felt stressed out at work this afternoon, and then noticed that it was almost high tide, and the moon’s pretty full, so it was going to be a high tide. So I went for a swim in the sea. What I didn’t notice was that there was quite a swell, so my swim across […]
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Posted on May 13th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
For yesterday’s run with Shana, I wanted to keep the distance down, so after 1 1/2 mile to warm up, we headed down onto Cullercoats harbour beech for some barefoot drills. Lots of stuff at a good high cadence, focusing on keeping the chest forward, and the stride length tight.
It was just the right point […]
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Posted on May 9th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
With the spring weather here, and three days of spring tides, I just had to do my swim today in the sea. So with high tide at 17:30-ish, I headed down to the harbour in my wetsuit at five. When I swim in the sea, I always time it so that I’m just before high […]
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Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Karl On Sea
. . . so I didn’t drink as much as I should have done on the bike.
Anyway - the Run. VonSmallhaussen’s up to stay for the weekend, so she volunteered to come with me for the run - to the lighthouse and back. Except she was going to cycle (borrowing Wife’s bike), so that she […]
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