I was supposed to be riding to Huddersfield today, doing the Brian Robinson Challenge then riding home. It would have been a very hilly, very gruelling 111 miles in total. Right up until last night, I was still planning to do the ride but then I saw sense. I’ve been feeling that I’m fighting off [...]
The exciting news referred to in the post title is… that I feel marginally less rough than I did, and if I carry on coughing, sneezing and spluttering green/yellow stuff up and out at the current rate, my body must surely soon run out of toxic waste. Either that, or I’ll have to consider buying [...]
I came down with a cold since coming back from the Midlands earlier in the week. I’ve been taking it easy to give myself a chance to get it over with ASAP, but I’m getting bored of hanging about the house all the time. I was supposed to be cycling tomorrow, but I don’t feel [...]
I’ve been away for another family visit so I haven’t had as much exercise as I’d have liked, but I squeezed in what I could. I’ll give you a summary of the last 6 days…
This is where the hard work really starts… The clocks went back an hour this morning which means it is now getting dark here before 5 pm and sunset will just continue getting earlier and earlier until close to Christmas. I really struggle with this time of year. The local hillsides have been looking lovely [...]
My old cycling pal Bill is back for the summer so I called upon his workshop skills to sort out my Basso which I had stripped down some time ago, but not got round to reassembling. Bill got stuck in, and after a quick trip down to the LBS (Local Bike Shop) for some replacement [...]
Well, I was still feeling ill but I’d been stuck indoors too much this past week so I was determined to get out for a while. It has been my least active week so far this year – that due to a combination of the mysterious ‘lurgy’ that I’ve picked up, but also due to [...]
There’s been a lot of talk in the media about Swine Flu and how it is going to end civilisation as we know it. I know that a really serious flu outbreak could kill thousands of people but this really doesn’t seem to be it, at least not yet. I’ve been pretty healthy for the [...]