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A longer trip this time and hopefully some longer Audaxes I’m booked into the ISAN 2020km on 02.02.20 and this weekend I’m attempting a tough 600 Starting from Sai Yok with over 6,000 metres of climbing 🙁 So should be very interesting! The rest of my time will be spent exploring the country by bike, […]
As I write this I’m still blown away that I pedalled 24,000 crank revolutions and covered over 384 miles in one 37 hour ride!! Will I ever get over it? This was my 39th Audax including 24 consecutive months of 200km+ each month and a thrice of 300km but for me, it would be my […]
Some folks may be wondering why I have landed up at Uthai Thani in Thailand the answer lies in an urge I’ve had to do a 600km Audax and also to keep warm without burning £20 notes. So when Wit Pimkanchanapong pasted this up I was intrigued: Here is a list of the 125 participants […]
A very hot three days riding the 150+ miles from Bangkok to Uthai Thani due North from Bangkok and roughly following the Chao Phraya River. I had overnight stops in Ayutthaya and Sing Buri. Ayutthaya is the old capital city before its wanton destruction in 1767. Interesting that stumps of the various massive buildings are […]
Three different hotels too – it appears whenever I book into a hotel it instantly fills up for subsequent nights I never realised how famous I am 🙂 However, The Windsor Suites Hotel on my first night was hosting a Latino dance festival and the Coco@20 filled up with weekend punters. On Saturday I decided […]
I love the trail that the HealthFit App produces on the iPhone from my Workout app on the iWatch. This trail is from a 2km stroll along the sea front at Cesarea on our little car tour of Puglia
Interesting to find a couple of old reports on ‘freak weather’ in Whaley Bridge 147 years ago. Whaley Bridge is mentioned twice in the flood chronologies for events in June 1872 and July 1881: On 19th [June 1872] the Goyt was 12 to 14 feet above its normal level. At Whaley Bridge houses near the […]
A lovely heatmap of my 800 cycling trips totalling over 40,000 miles since I joined Strava in July 2012 Clicking the map should let you zoom up and around.
Today’s reading rabbit hole which I disappeared into was driven by these articles all appearing in my Feedly : Cause of hardening of the arteries – and potential treatment – identified A subject close to my heart 🙂 with my elevated blood pressure and after my carotid-femoral pulse measurements from the last Quantified Self conference […]