Tag Archives: Bike

20,000 Mile Bar Tape

Thats what bar tape looks like after 20,000 miles. My Indie XS passed the 20,000 mile mark last week and it still has the original bar tape on it. I had to take it in to Mosquito Bikes  to show … Continue reading

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Within Two Weeks

We’ve just been to a lecture by Ron Hill. Great stuff I could have written the script. He’s run every day since some time in the 60s. He went 26 years running twice everyday other than Sunday when he’d run … Continue reading

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Lifestyle

A completely unrelated picture to the title of this post. This is my training stress balance chart for this year for my biking. I’m going to start by covering recent training. The yellow line above is Training Stress Balance. In … Continue reading

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Experience

Just had a really fun marathon experience. Achieved my goals for the marathon and had a good confidence boost. Read about it here. There have been a few questions posted as comments. I decided I will not answer them with … Continue reading

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Back In The UK

Life is so much simpler away from home. All your belongings are in a box and a bag and none of your mail reaches you. Back home there’s a tonne of mail to sort out and suddenly I have “stuff” … Continue reading

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Bike Review

Quite pleased to be doing a review of my biking because it seems to have improved so much this year. I feel so strong on the bike currently especially when riding on flats / false flats. Quite a change from … Continue reading

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Christmas In Christchurch

Thats our Christmas dinner from last night. It was ruthlessly efficiently put together by Jo and I, whilst we got showered and changed, so that we were eating within 90 minutes of finishing our monster ride. This was the first … Continue reading

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Back In Training

It’s been a rather stressful day or so. We’re flying out to Busselton, then Christchurch and then home on Quantas. We knew that their luggage allowance was pretty tight (23 kg) but on closer inspection we find they have maximum … Continue reading

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Painted Church Loop

I did take a picture of the Painted Church but it’s not that great. It’s painted yes … but it’s just painted plain white. It’s not like it’s some flash paint job. So a picture of coffee will have to … Continue reading

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Queen K Battering

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