I rode au-natural the other day. Casting off the shackles of my normal riding conventions I set off unburdened and free into the unknown. It was a challenge, it was painful and exhilarating in equal measure and it felt good. Don't worry I did have lycra on. It wasn't that sort of ‘au-natruale’. I’m talking …
A Tale of two rides (Part 2) Zwift Racing!
I had a nice easy indoor Zwift ride planned for the day after my mountain biking escapades, you know the sort of thing - an easy hour or so just to shake the previous days efforts out of the legs. No record-setting planned, or PB chasing on the climbs, just a nice easy bimble round …
A Tale of Two Rides. (Part 1)
It's been a busy couple of days in Declining Cyclist land. One might almost think I was thinking of taking my riding seriously again! Two days running I've put a significant ride in both in and out of doors. I'll give you a quick run down, I know you're all waiting with bated breath and …
I’m not the rider I could be, and I’m cool with that.
There I've said it. It's out in the open. The secret is out, and the angst in my cyclists soul is laid bare, but that's fine. You see they say with age comes wisdom and experience. Well I'm not sure about wisdom and all experience seems to tell me is that getting up in the …
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Training With Zwift – Indoor pain for hopefully outdoor gains…….
So I've been using Zwift for a few weeks now and according to my online stats on the Zwift app I've ridden 262 miles, climbed 24,300 feet and burned 27 slices of pizza. To be honest I'm not entirely sure of the relevance or meaning of that last stat, but burning virtual pizza slices seems …
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Zwift -Half a Million Users Can’t beWrong?
I'd been tracking the rider in front for over a mile. As we started the climb they were hovering tantalisingly out of reach just up the road. As the gradient hit over seven percent and my frantic clicking of my right hand shifter met its end stop I could see them at the edge of …
Bad Times, Bad Rides :-(
Ever had a ride when you get home and wish you hadn't bothered? One when you've spent almost the entire ride wondering if fishing might actually be the sport for you and how much a decent rod and reel would cost? Well I did yesterday. I've had such rides before and I'm sure I'll have …
Spring has Sprung at last – Time to ride mes amis……..
So long time to blog, and seeing as the last one was written around the subject of Fish Keeping, it's even longer since I put both middle fingers to keyboard on the subject of bikes and the riding there of. Well mea culpa (whatever that means), sorry, I know I've been letting down my loyal …
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The Link Between Marine Fishkeeping and Cycling
Well, firstly let me say there really isn't one. This is just an exercise in finding excuses for the lack of recent cycling in my life, but having thought about it while I've been typing this first sentence I think my semi-fertile grey matter may have conjured up a very tenuous connection that I can …
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Why can Cyclists be some of the rudest people on the planet?
Let me start with a little story. It's a true one, it happened just last week and it happened to me. I was winding my way home on my road bike, just cruising along through the last 10 miles or so of a fifty mile odd loop through some of my favorite local country lanes. I …
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The Declining Cyclist 