Life gets busy

Whoa It’s been a while since i’ve blogged! There are many reasons for this, work life has been exceedingly busy and coupled with the fact that the work firewall has banned access to wordpress then the daytime opportunities to blog have disappeared, evening are family and everything else time so no chance there either! I [...]

Apparently he does own the road!!

This Jag driver (who apparently DOES own the road)is now the proud owner of a dent from a cleated carbon soled shoe He insisted that get the f*** out of his way & that I was a Bl**dy child for riding a bike on a road….. On a road of all places!! I believe my real [...]

Drown Rat!

Oh My Holy WordPress! It ain’t half raining! By the time I got home yesterday there was about 1/2 a pint of water in my shoes. The water retention properties of carbon fibre are quite impressive, if I was ever in a situation where I was desperate for a drink had a supply of water [...]

Back on the road – Tri training.

Once again i’m making a bid to do a Triathlon this is my 3rd year of thinking about this but the 1st that I’ve actually booked to do it. Yes that’s right i’ve got the completed form and cheque just waiting for pay day to arrive to post it off. With this in mind my [...]

College run

Yesterdays college run was fast and fun thanks to a few days off the saddle I was full of energy and ran hard all the way there into the wind and all the way back with the wind at my back (loads faster) Really enjoying the single speedness of my bike and I really do [...]

sub zero Again!!

The weather has lulled me into a false sense of security, It is once again freezing cold and everything is covered in frost, My legs (exposed) were posotively numb by the time I arrived at the office. [knocking off bank's look again] 10 minutes under a hot shower and 2 hot coffees haven’t managed to [...]

1st college commute for the Langster

Well we had a good blast to college and back yesterday shaving 15 minutes off my commute time. I knew the mountain bike was slower but a whole 5mph slower as an average speed! I followed the same route as last time and it was amazing how quickly the ride went by, there were a [...]

Snow

Wow this morning was an effort! Eventually kicking the kids out of the house I trudged up the hill to deposit a rather cold snow covered little girl at school and then turn around and a hard ride in driving snow [that little stinging type] which would have made for great photo’s [shame the batteries [...]

Nothing to see… move along

After a full week of commuting i was starting to feel fairly rough, Saturday was a welcome break although I did get out for a ride with the Mrs (her first with the new bike bits I got her for Xmas….. apparently the Hope brakes are awesome) Sundays mad dash to the bike shop was [...]

And then there was mud!

This is not the path I used but it looks very much like it. If you add rain and wind, this was my commute home from college. Following the morning severe soaking being blown to pieces the commute home was a mud bath! The towpath that is usually lovely was a quadmire and by the [...]