For some reason I decided to enter the ‘Military Challenge’ Mountain Bike Orienteering event yesterday. This was despite not even owning a mountain bike (I borrowed one from the cycle club at work). What I hadn’t bargained on at the time I entered was that there would be lots of snow on the ground! Things started to go wrong even before the start. I had not brought my normal cycle jacket (well, it’s Christine’s actually) as the zip broke but what I had forgotten was that my cycle gloves were in the rear pocket. Luckily I did at least have another pair of gloves with me.
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Cranky competition
Sunday, December 20th, 2009Summer’s on its way
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007Spring has well and truly sprung and it feels like summer won’t be far behind. The change in the clocks at the weekend and some bright sunshine left me with no excuse not to cycle in to work yesterday. I don’t use those muscles very often and my legs ached after just a few miles. The sun was out again today for the first Tuesday night run of the year. As is tradition, this was from the Royal Oak, Fritham and involved visiting six of the nearby ponds. I’ve decided to post
GPX files for these runs but don’t yet have a good way of displaying them. If your running Internet Explorer then you can
view it on some MS Virtual Earth imagery and try and spot the ponds! You can always use GPSBabel if you want some other format.
Tandem Mountain Biking
Sunday, November 27th, 2005As part of Christine’s birthday celebration we hired bikes from Lyndhurst in the New Forest along with Christine’s parents, her brother and his girlfriend. For novelty value, we took a tandem mountain bike. The fact that the front and rear pedals are fixed relative to one another meant getting started took a bit of practice (I have the scars on my shins to prove it) but once you got going it was quite easy to out-pace the individual riders.
