Whitley Bay

So. I was riding from Tynemouth to Whitley Bay last night when I noticed an eerie green and purple glow in the sky. Naturally, I stopped, rubbed my eyes, checked that there was nothing wrong with my headlight and continued on. Could this be the northern lights I was seeing? After I picked up Daughter...
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Great run this evening on a new route - into Newcastle and back: And I got to stop briefly at Carlton Reid’s cocktail bar half way round too. Unfortunately they were right out of Bambino Splash (pint glass - half fill with snakebite, and top up with snowball), but they did have water for...
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Thursday is bike day for work, and again I had a whole lot of time with clients scheduled - at their premises rather than mine, so that meant sensible, civilised cycling. I’m sure I could have planned this better, but I ended up doing nearly 40 miles . . . . . . and...
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Thursday is a bike day. We won’t let the weather, the clients we have to see, or the errands we have to run put us off doing it all on two-wheels. And this week, I had all three - cold & drizzly first thing in the morning; a meeting with a client that required...
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Had to get home in time to cook breakfast for Daughter - it’s her birthday, and she’d asked for cinnamon pancakes before school. When you’ve got a deadline like that, you’ve got motivation to run faster than the average cat! Workout: Type: Run Date: 04/30/2010 Time: 06:22:19 Total Time: 00:57:27.00 Calories: 944 Distance: 8 miles Average Pace: 7:10.62/mile
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So I was just over 14 miles in, when I ran past a little girl out for a walk with her mummy. She must’ve been no more than four years old, pigtails, and a bright red school cardigan. Just about the cutest vision of childhood that you’d ever see (excepting my Daughter, of course). As...
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It’s that time of year again - April is the cruelest month. It looks like summer; it sounds like summer; it even smells like summer. But it’s not. This morning was one such morning. Bright, bright sunlight, coupled with a wind straight from the Arctic circle. The trouble was that I’d got...
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The run section of Ironman France is four, 10km circuits of the sea front in Nice. I find it bad enough swimming laps in the pool, but I have never got on with running around a track, and this looks alarmingly like this - albeit a track that’s a little larger than the usual...
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So my Decadent In-laws are here to stay and it’s the school holidays. Normally I’d do my long ride on a Sunday, but we’d hatched a plan for a picnic on Holy Island - the family would drive, and I’d cycle there before hitching a lift home. I plotted my route . . . ....
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Beautiful day . . . but that wind from the North East, over the sea was just freezing. The ride in was pretty tough as a result, and the ride home an absolute blast. Like so much to do with riding a bike, there are Yehuda Moon strips to supply the visuals (click to...
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