I had a late start, and it was already gone 8 by the time I left the hotel just south of Birmingham. And I had some serious mileage to get me back on schedule to[…]
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Tag: Ride
Quintessentially English
Today started much better than yesterday and I was on the road by 6am. And by 10 I was having breakfast in Whitchurch which is a beautiful little town which reminds me a lot of[…]
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Day of the Muppet
Last night I stayed in a very nice hotel. A very comfy bed, and this morning while my legs wanted to ride, my heart just wasn’t in it at all. I had no motivation whatsoever.[…]
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There be a Lack of Electricity
Walking up I had next to no power. For any of my kit. Less than 2% and I was still in the middle of nowhere. Using what I had I checked and basically route 74[…]
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Beasties
By the time I made it into Crianlarich last night my heart cable had stretched so much woke the grind of the climbs over from Glencoe I only had five functional gears. So it was[…]
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Then there be hills
OK, more correctly the Cairngorms. But that was after the Caledonian Way. The place I stayed at was great, actually oddly enough the guy who runs it with his girlfriend is from Carlisle. They spotted[…]
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Fear and predictions
Today was a completely different kind of day. A beautiful sunny morning, even if I was expected to get hit by some rain later according to the radar. The b&b I found in Alness was[…]
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And so it begins
Waking up in the early morning with the usual swings and roundabouts of a 3.3 (59) after a lovely crash back down after my stonking high off the Coke. A quick rummage through my food[…]
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Training Ride – Learning Recovery
Well, as some of you know I’ve a “little” bike ride coming up starting this Saturday. So before all that, thought I would bring up a little training I did today mostly trying to figure[…]
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Colds Meh!
Still got my cold, although it seems to be abating a little bit anyhow. Bloods have been silly numbers all weekend and done nothing but fire in correction injections to lower it to “normal”. Not[…]
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