Category: Lifestyle
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Drying Fast, Pain Is Real
Dry fasting is tough, eighteen hours in.An utter thirst grinds the upper part of your tongue crying for satisfaction.Maybe the pain is imaginary. Gym session, knocking at 3 kilometre sprints. Climbing sessions at 3%,Spun out 75GI at 25mph. Pain, and I ask myself: why am I doing this?I could jus’ be at home kicking a…
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Alone
The last meal is always the painful one. Prepared, whole and lean.A full house, laughing, jokin’, n’ playin’.Looking around that table,Observing faces, speakin’, smilin’. Soon to be gone. So far away. Jus’, walkin’Away. So,Bite, chew and drink to this too. Enjoy that last meal with all the children.The day before, it all ends once more. So,Jus’…
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Hateriouscyclistus Is A Virus
Hateriouscyclistus. Why so serious? Have people really stopped riding for fun? In the bike industry there seems to be a never ending chase for the next best thing. The next best shiniest groupset or a quest for the lightest monocoque carbon frame ever. The chase seems to get faster with every year, but as it…
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A (FXD) Roadie Out In The Wild
This is an experiment. So….42miles per hour (approx.). That’s what I’ve been toying around with lately. And guess wha…surprise surprise, that wholesome number has been on a geared bike. Yep, toys with gears have joined my set. A classic steel joy from Vernon Barker and an alloy Viking race bike now sit pretty next to…
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Raleigh At The Mall
The Mall.Sunshine.Lively crowds. Tourists.Horses.A marching band. One bike. Happy. One smiling man. Simple.Jus’ my happy space. Raleigh.Never a lonely ride.
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This Morning, I Almost Turned Into A Zombie
“Urm..hmmm?!” “What type of deer is that?” Those were the first thoughts that sprung to mind after I saw a ‘strange deer’ this morning. It was approximately 200 metres away. I was staring at that thing for a long time while pushing my bike on a level crossing. Normally, I take pictures of these type…
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3am
3am. The wheels keep turning. 3am. Silent.Cog tuned at midnight, Geared for 3am. Silence.There’s nothing else. No one else. Just,You.
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The Morning Hour
Ever had one of those days when you just don’t want to get up? Staring at the ceiling. Alarm blaring on its third snooze. Still thinking about getting up. Maybe in a minute or so. Maybe in a coupla’ minutes. What if I get another 15mins of snooze? I think 30mins will be better. Yes,…
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Are you AeroReady all the time?
I recently read a Guardian article debating the merits of wearing the same sweaty gym clothes more than once – as in without washing them straight after a work-out session. This got me thinking about my own clothing gear and laundry habits. What type would I fall into? OCD Aero, (a) washing clothes straight after…
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Check yo’ speed pal: chasing an elusive average speed for my school run.
I finally managed to crack through the 50mph max speed target that I had set for myself earlier this year. Descending at 52mph and averaging 33mph on flats on 85GI (52/16). Back in autumn of 2022, pushing the limits of my Dawes Lightning fixed gear bike to 42mph on the A616 had seemed like…