outdoors

It’s been a wet day here. Usually on a week day when I’m riding, the first thing I do when I wake up is I peek out of the curtains – if it’s wet, or worse, still raining, I tend to feel a bit down about things. Well, today it was wet, and raining. But … Read more

For sure it’s not the first time I’ve talked about buying a GoPro on here over the years. But every time I have an ‘incident’, I kinda wish I had one to record it. My feelings on the subject are: Today’s ride was basically the usual ~20 minutes hard effort, trying (in vain, it feels … Read more

Went down plenty of roads I don’t normally frequent today – mostly because traffic when I do ride tends to be horrendous / dangerous there. I did have a crazy issue early in the ride where I turned a 90 degree bend, scuffed a huge chunk out of my pedal as it hit the road, … Read more

Back from holidays. Amazingly, came back lighter than I went. That’s what two weeks wandering around theme parks in considerable heat will do to you, I suppose. Whilst I was away, I was thinking how to take this blog forwards. I’m going to try shorter, more concise updates in the short term. Not sure about … Read more

Yesterday’s ride, at the time of writing. My idea with this one was to do two laps of a shorter route, but road closures put paid to that. As it was, I ended up carrying on, doing a route I knew would be roughly 30km. The way out was a strong, strong headwind. It was … Read more