The sun was shining as I met up with some lads from the CycleChat forum this morning. Calum turned out for the first time since last November. By rights, he should have been too unfit to do today’s tough hilly ride, but he’s only 21 – so, no problem!. Shaun was up for another ride. He’s really keen these days, having got very fit through 18 months of hard bicycle commuting. Paul (a.k.a. Pennine-Paul on CycleChat) made his CC forum ride debut on his fixed-wheel bike. Yikes – had he not studied today’s route profile! 
Ed (Svendo) was going to catch us up somewhere later on. He’s a fit rider and he had the route programmed into his GPS.
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March 6th, 2011 | Posted in Cycling | No Comments
Nothing exciting to report – just a stroll up to Heptonstall with Lisa via Heptonstall Quarry. There were a couple of climbers getting ready to scale the rock face as we went by. It looks fun, but it is not for me – I have no head for heights!
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March 5th, 2011 | Posted in Walking | No Comments
I’m not a great fan of cities, but I was called in to Manchester today on an important mission …
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March 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Walking | No Comments
A bunch of us did a ride to Waddington a month ago and we decided to do a repeat of the 57-miler today. It’s a relatively easy route by our hilly northern standards, so it is a nice ride to do at this time of year to help build fitness, and get us out when the weather might not be perfect.
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February 27th, 2011 | Posted in Cycling | No Comments
So, the weather forecasts were right! Today was a fine sunny day and the temperatures got up to about 14 degrees C, much warmer than the average for this time of year here. I had to get out on my bike and make the most of it. I’d contacted Shaun (CycleChat’s bromptonfb) and he agreed to ride over and join me for one of my favourite local hilly road rides to Trawden and back via Widdop.
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February 24th, 2011 | Posted in Cycling | No Comments
So, last night was another late night, but this time I was just drinking chilled sparkling mineral water with a dash of OJ.
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February 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Health, Progress Report | No Comments
So, ‘Slimmer and Fitter’ – it’s been just over 2 years since I started this blog and I haven’t achieved my aims. I started off making good progress, but then faltered. All the good work has unravelled and I’m basically back where I started from – fat, and relatively unfit. (That is – unfit compared to how fit I was 4 years ago, not compared to the average UK man in his mid-50s – he isn’t very fit either!)
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February 21st, 2011 | Posted in Exercise, Health, Progress Report | No Comments
February 12th, 2011 | Posted in Walking | No Comments
