Posts Tagged ‘ Commuting ’

Maybe I’m just not as fit as I once was. Or maybe that 44×16 is much for me. Or maybe I’m just getting too old. But it’s amazing how quickly I’m tiring these days, especially when there’s a headwind. My commute is around 15 miles each way - long, but not stupid long. With fair...
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This, hot off the presses: It’s not winter yet. In fact, it may not even be autumn for at least a couple of weeks. I just wish I’d know that this morning - I looked out at the weather (sea: mountainous still; vaguely Danish voices on the wind), and decided that it looked...
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It’s getting toward the end of summer, and autumn is just around the corner. The weather has been showery over the last week - witness my having to get a lift home on Monday as my bike wasn’t equipped with a snorkel. But it is still the end of summer - autumn isn’t here...
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So most of the way home (sweaty, fly encrusted, and generally a bit of a mess), I got overtaken by someone on a nice new hybrid - skinny tyres, disk brakes, and Lycra shorts. I was tempted to just let him go . . . but I’m just five week’s from race day, and starting...
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