Stats first - Total distance ridden in April was 270.78km. Off road was 97.53km and on road was 173.25km. Zwift didn't get a look in last month. Well April was a month of two halves. It started off strong on the 2nd of April with the best day of Mountain Biking I'd had for ages …
I was feeling quite good for once as I crested the last rise on the trail and began the loop back to the trail centre car park, this was a section I knew well - flowing, undulating and fast it was a blast all the way back to the sanctuary of the trail head café …
So total stats for March - Total distance ridden - 264.59km, most of which was in the first half of the month when I had some time off work and the weather was being uncharacteristically benign for this time of year. Unfortunately the second half of March wasn't so productive on the riding front after …
So did I manage to maintain my strong start to the year as we rolled into February? Well kind of I think.... lets start with the stats :- 202.9 km ridden in total, of that figure 131.9km were sweating away in my back room on Zwift, and the other 71km were all off road on …
Boredom and Facebook marketplace are dangerous bed fellows. One minute your idly scrolling through the seemingly endless adverts for tools that look like they've been stolen out of the back of some poor sod's work van interspersed with pictures of furniture from the house that taste forgot , and then you see it - the …
A few months ago I wrote a heartfelt post on my relationship breakdown with my mountain bike. I was feeling very low and things were very bad between us, but after a lot of soul searching I'd realised the fault was 98% mine and if things were going to have any chance of working out …
Continue reading Falling Back In Love With a Bike – it’s never too late to save a relationship.
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…….
What do two Americans, two Brits, one Italian and one German have in common? well there may certainly be other random things that link this particular demographic, but last week we were all locked in a no holds bared struggle over the mid pack placing's in a Cat C Zwift race the results of which …
If you asked a random sample of people what the first thing that comes to mind is when you mention the weather in these sceptered isles I'm 99% sure the answer would be rain. There's no getting away from the fact that if you live in the UK and you ride a bike then you …
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