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The journal
Today the excellent Thierry at Nevada Sports here in Les Gets gave my Dawes bike a good going over. Tightening the headstock, replacing the chain, replacing the brake blocks, oiling all the pull wires, fixing the broken pannier rack & resetting all the gears. He mainly specialises in downhill mountain bikes. Fixing with his team […]
Spot the difference? I thought it would be interesting to compare my two rides to Les Gets. The first ride was in August 2009 where I rode the 767 miles and in the saddle for 72.6 hours over the 10 days it took. This time in August 2013 I travelled […]
Using the Adze programme I stitched together all the GPS trails for my ride to Les Gets. Each day is given a different colour. There are a total of 25,471 points over the 761 miles (about 53 yards apart) Clicking on the map will download a file that you can open in Google Earth taking […]
I finally made it to my apartment in Les Gets 13 days after leaving Cambridge & with 76 hours perched on my Brooks B17 saddle. Total distance covered this time 774 miles (1237km) which means when moving I was averaging about 10mph. The day was very tough for me, as the profile shows: I’m not going […]
Today was a 84 miler and done rather effortlessly, obviously a bottle of fine Brouilly the night before does the trick! The breakfast was truly magnificent reminding me a bit of Maggies in Ireland with the bike fully loaded, chain freshly oiled, and the Gaia app fully primed I made good time and was surprised how […]
Today started with a very emotional Sally kissing me goodbye at Kings Cross, after our Pret breakfast. Not sure if the emotion was caused by the £22 single ticket fare to Cambridge (it’s only £15 the other way & the return is only £1 more). After my previous fiasco navigating out of South London I […]
Very interesting email I received on one of my favourite topics. If you measure what is going in it strikes me what is coming out is equally important. After all doctors used to taste your urine 🙂 It’s interesting how the FDA are getting drawn into the debate. Basically if you interept the dipstick manually […]
Here is my little spreadsheet of my walk:- Book 231.02 0.00 3.50 2.44 458,777.00 2781 215.2 42324 24996 213 GPS Data Data from Fitbit Date Start End Miles miles Moving Stopped mph inc stops Steps Floors Miles Calories Active […]
Today with George (who I first met 50 years ago whilst doing the Duke of Edinburgh’s award scheme at Parkgate Iron & steel works) I started the Southern Upland Way. This is a 212 mile coast to coast walk across Scotland starting in Portpatrick near Stranraer. This is the first time I have pre-booked the […]
Today I’m off to Amsterdam for the weekend to spend time & learn more about the Quantified Self. Something I have been very interested in since discovering John Walkers original Hackers diet & Eatwatch programme on my old Treo600. This, coupled with the fact I had an eye problem which necessitated many visits to Addenbrookes Hospital to […]
