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At the end of the last blog post I alluded to a bit of a medical whoopsie that's going to affect not just my riding but pretty much most aspects of my life moving forward, and I really have nobody to blame but myself. My long standing addiction to Coke has entirely predictably eventually had …
Continue reading Finally My Poor Life Choices have Come Home To Roost.
First a spot of admin if I may, after faffing around on the free loading version of WordPress for almost 10 years I've finally moved to a properly hosted website hence the much snappier web address for The Declining Cyclist multiverse that probably nobody will notice, its simply now http://www.thedecliningcyclist.com . This move to a …
Continue reading Its Time For Those ‘What Will The New Year Bring?’ Musings…….
There often comes a tipping point in our relationships. Sometimes you just know deep down that things just haven't been right between you for awhile, and then it just takes a little nudge to plunge that interpersonal dynamic in full blown crisis mode. Questions abound, chasing each other around in an endless and remorseless loop …
Continue reading When a relationship breaks down – Falling out of love with your bike 😦
I was talking to a fellow riding mate in the pub the other night and during our wide ranging discussion on life, riding and the woes of our respective children one of the subjects we touched on was the occasional instances where the inadvertent separation of bicycle and rider occur, and during this discussion I …
I’d like to start by saying that now I’ve typed that title out I’ve committed myself a nursery rhyme ear worm from hell for the rest of the day. Right, so this year for the first time in my professional working career I’ve been in receipt of a modest pay bonus from my employer. In …
So the winter training and fitness plan of riding my bikes as much as possible while also going to the gym for finely honed and focused strength training to address my myriad of physical weaknesses has been going really well lately............... not....... Yes in the last couple of months I have achieved precisely zero miles …
Now both the physical wounds and the mental scars have had time to heal I feel I can try to put into words how my first Parkrun went …… The last track on the radio that was playing when I parked the car in Lichfields Beacon Park pay and display was fittingly The Spencer Davis …
Continue reading Parkrun – It’s part in my downfall (Part 2)
Parkrun seems to be a particularly British way for nominally sane people of all ages to spend a Saturday morning. Since the first events in 2004 in Bushy Park in London this now global phenomenon has now grown to over 2000 events in 23 countries around the globe. The premise? anyone can register, turn up …
Continue reading Parkrun – its part in my downfall…. (Part 1)
Well the answer is literally nowhere really. I just haven’t been riding much at all. I haven’t been injured, had the dreaded ‘C’ word, had all the bikes stolen …….. I just haven’t been riding. Since the last MTB ride I did at the end of January Strava tells me I’ve ridden my road bike …
I’ve been told I’m a bit psychotic and need help after posting a little anecdote as a comment on a YouTube video. It’s prompted an uncharacteristic bout of self-analysis while I was on the indoor trainer this morning ....... and after some deep inner soul searching and deeper self reflection on the incident in question …
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