Sorry for the total lack of updates for the last few months, but I do have a range of excuses honest. As I alluded to in my last post way back in early January after a pretty decent 12 months on the bike (at least for me!) 2025 ended with a bit of a whimper. …
Tag: Running
My Month on Bikes – June
Stats first because everyone loves a good statistic or two, last month I managed a total of 372.20km, of which 295.91km was outdoors and for the second month running this was all on road and mostly on the Sabbath. The remaining 76.29 km were racked up going nowhere fast sweating like an overheated pisshead in …
Parkrun – It’s part in my downfall (Part 2)
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 …
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Parkrun – its part in my downfall…. (Part 1)
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 …
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Torture by Treadmill – Cross Training Pain for Probably Very Little Gain.
I ran 5 kilometres on a treadmill this morning. This is easily the furthest I've run indoors or indeed out for at least 10 years. Now sitting in my kitchen writing this over an hour later I'm still waiting for the random muscle spasms in my right calf muscle to subside, and as the old …
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The Declining Cyclist 