Jun

6

Le Terrier

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The more observant of my reader will have noticed that it’s been a bit warm in this neck of the woods over the last few days so Mrs Anorak and myself have sensibly hidden from the blazing heat by riding bicycles through miles of glorious Lancastrian countryside with hardly any shelter. This was not some [...]

Mar

29

Cheshire Cat

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This, the 67 mile Cheshire Cat was my second sportive, last year’s medium Tour Ride around Stoke having been the first. The weather started off rather cool but warmed up by early afternoon to the point where arm warmers and gilet could happily be removed. Mow Cop is quite a climb. I’ve had one previous [...]

Mar

19

Achilles (Carol Ann Duffy)

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Achilles (for David Beckham) from today’s Daily Mirror Myth’s river- where his mother dipped him, fished him, a slippery golden boyflowed on, his name on its lips. Without him, it was prophesised, they would not take Troy. Women hid him, concealed him in girls’ sarongs; days of sweetmeats, spices, silver songs… but when Odysseus came, [...]

Jul

9

Do you wear a walking helmet?

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I love cycling. Some people may have noticed this. I love the freedom, the pain, (perhaps more particularly, the sensation when the pain stops at the top of a climb), the speed and the countryside. I love having to think about what I’m doing in traffic. I love the great feeling of being alive that [...]

Feb

14

Across the Trough

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The February half-term weather having been unusually kind, I set off for my third 50km ride of the week in cool, almost windless conditions under a glorious blue sky armed with six Geobars, a multitool and inner tube, a credit card, a car key, my trusty Garmin Edge (and paper map in case of technical [...]

Jan

20

Precipitous cycling

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I blogged the best part of eleven months ago about various of my feeble reasons for not cycling and followed up by suggesting that I might achieve an Eddington number of 30 by the end of last summer.

Dec

27

Edgy cycling

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Christmas had, for me, rather a cycling theme to it this year: a stylish Solo cap, a substantial saddlebag and a Garmin Edge 305 GPS cycle computer. Potential purchasers of the Edge are cautioned that it is a better training device than a navigator and Frank Kinlan has a handy guide to using it for [...]

Dec

3

Self-service cartography

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News reaches these parts of a project to map Britain’s cycle routes using the user-edited OpenStreetMap. It looks like an interesting project. If only I had some sort of GPS device to attach to my bike I could have a go at mapping some of Preston’s local routes.

Oct

29

Duncan Goodhew

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As Small has swimming lessons every Friday it seems only sensible for us to go swimming at the same time. We recently discovered that we could buy a couple’s monthly swimming pass for only the cost of one swim a fortnight. I’m now sitting here having cycled to the pool and back to do 32 [...]

Jul

30

2007 Tour De France Winner Stripped of Title

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I have belatedly come across the following important news from early April which demonstrates that the UCI, ASO and WADA have been taking the issue of doping in cycling seriously all along. Fat Cyclist » Blog Archive » 2007 Tour De France Winner Stripped of Title 2007 Tour De France Winner Stripped of Title “Really, [...]

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