Is this the world's best Excel-based Triathlon Training Planner?
Available from my
Kagi store for just £6.49 (about $10):
You probably know that I’m a big fan of Rick Smith’s daily comic strip, Yehuda Moon. It’s the story of daily life in a bike shop, owned by ex-commercial property developer and idealist Yehuda Moon, and staffed by racer-turned-wrench Joe King and Thistle Gin - a hot, tech-savvy woman with a degree in engineering.
ANYWAY.
Thanks...
Read more »
You know that McCracken’s First Law applies:
The strength of the headwind is directly proportional to how late you are.
If you try to cheat, by grabbing a quicker, sleeker, lighter bike (reasoning that you’ll easily make up the time required to get changed at the other end), McCracken’s Second Law comes into play:
The probability of...
Read more »
Riding home with Daughter last week, I was making like a swan in flight with both my arms out wide. As we turned into our back lane, I looked over my shoulder to see Daughter also managing to ride no-handed. Woo! Way to go, etc! I turned back to watch where I was going,...
Read more »
Criticality Accident - Don’t try this at home, kids!
Sometimes we achieve critical mass by accident - like in the Newcastle Cycle Campaign’s City Chiefs Cycle Challenge, in which a bunch of politicians, civil servants and cycle campaigners took to the streets of Newcastle last month.
Or during my training as a Bike Ability Instructor,...
Read more »
Today’s Yehuda Moon strip - never a truer word:
I remember the day well - a spring afternoon in 2005. I was in training for my first triathlon, but on this particular day, sitting in a mile long queue of traffic for the Tyne Tunnel. The windows were down, the sun shining, and I was...
Read more »
The sort of tipping point where the masses See The Light. Suddenly people are abandoning their cars, joining the revolution, and pedalling to a new, brighter future. Not so much of a New Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land as a New Amsterdam (no - not that New Amsterdam).
Last week I filled up the car...
Read more »
Turns out it was quite cold last night. I’ve been caught out by this before - as we live right next to the sea, we experience a maritime microclimate. What that means is that it’s a couple of degrees warmer than it is just a mile or so inland.
So I left home thinking it...
Read more »
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...
Read more »
This story was highlighted in the comments of today’s Yehuda Moon strip - a bear escaping from Berlin zoo a few years ago . . . and attempting to make his gettaway on a bike. No, this isn’t the bloke from the passing-basketballs-are-you-paying-attention video doing a bit of moonlighting (he also wears a rather...
Read more »
Before you panic, not it wasn’t me who actually got killed by a car - it was a fluffy bunny-wunnie.
So let’s get my near-miss out of the way first. I was riding north up the coast into the wind, early on today’s bank holiday. The roads were deserted at a time in the morning...
Read more »
