Counting sprockets

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London to Paris by bike to beat blood cancers

December 6th, 2010 5 Comments

For the last couple of years a number of us have ridden the 52 mile London Bikeathon as a team for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research. In fact, we received a prize this year for our joint fund raising efforts – over £7000. I thought we could make a bigger fund raising effort next year with [...]

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Ride review – 9 August 2010

August 9th, 2010 1 Comment

As part of my continuing efforts to regain my long lost fitness I put in a five hour ride yesterday. I coped pretty well, keeping the pace as even as possible, resisting the temptation to stick it in the big ring for any prolonged periods. The first (and last) 90 minutes of the ride were [...]

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An afternoon climbing Box Hill

July 25th, 2010 No Comments

Did the longest ride today I’ve done in a number of years. I sort of think that if I’m going to regain some sort of level of fitness that I enjoyed 8+ years ago it’s about time I start to put some miles in. Two hour loops of Richmond Park, though good for speed, aren’t going [...]

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