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13 Aug 2023Audax · Biking · Personal

The countdown begins!

[wpdevart_countdown text_for_day=”Days” text_for_hour=”Hours” text_for_minut=”Minutes” text_for_second=”Seconds” countdown_end_type=”time” font_color=”#000000″ hide_on_mobile=”show” redirect_url=”https://rtrt.me/ulink/CCTA/CC-2023/tracker/RH4PGYUS/focus” end_date=”13-08-2023 23:59″ start_time=”1691943437″ end_time=”7,1,0″ action_end_time=”hide” content_position=”center” top_ditance=”10″ bottom_distance=”10″ ]On the PBP[/wpdevart_countdown] It’s one week beforeToday I start my first Paris Brest Paris Audax something I always said I would never attempt 🙂 but I succumbed and now we are in Rambouillet I’m rider O195 with […]

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21 Jul 2023Biking · Europe

Geoff’s Tour of France

Tomorrow as the Tour de France cycle race ends we depart to do our own little tour, interestingly back to the origins from which TdF was born! The first stage is from Luxembourg Airport to Pont Au Mousson to take part in the Federal Semane cycling week. The next stage a week or so later […]

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2 Jul 2023Audax · Biking · Personal

The Paris Brest Paris (PBP) Audax

We have both qualified & received our places for our first Paris-Brest -Paris ride. We completed our 200km, 300km, 400km & 600km qualifying rides in Thailand. The 2023 PBP for me starts on Sunday 20th August at 19:30 and Honey at 19:00. We have 90 hours to ride the 1219km (757 miles) which makes my […]

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31 Dec 2022Biking

2022 VeloViewer overview

The excellent Veloviewer program/app takes all your Strava data and turns it into really useful charts. 2022 Overview But to put it into perspective this is the distance plotted against the previous 9 years so still a long way to beat the record-breaking 2020!

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29 Mar 2022Biking South East Asia · Personal

Mini tour to Laos

With the wretched CoVid restrictions slowly getting lifted especially with my 3 jabs and almost certainly a mild bout of it we thought it was time for touring, one of my original ideas for moving to Thailand 2 years ago. My truck was booked into Ford Phetchaburi to get the smashed rear light and […]

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8 Apr 2021Biking · Biking South East Asia · Personal

A years cycling in Thailand

Sabai Sabai I started this post on the 4th of January 🙂 2020 was a fantastic cycling year for me, blowing away all my previous mileage records :-). Thank goodness I moved to Thailand, in January, away from all the CoVid lockdowns in Europe. According to Strava I rode 18,220Km that’s well over eleven thousand […]

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5 Apr 2020Audax · Biking · Biking South East Asia

88 days in Thailand

I’ve now been in Thailand for 88 days and this is the first time I’ve been near my blog! Which is to say very unusual for me as is riding 6600km (4,125 miles) in the same period. Not sure if the cycling rate will continue at such a pace with, as in the UK, all […]

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21 Nov 2019Biking · Biking South East Asia

Return to Chom Bueng in daylight

After a couple of very relaxing days at the Zen Hotel and where better to stay in Nakhon Pathom than with a Cafe Amazon, a 7-Eleven and half a dozen foot and leg massage places within a few yards of your 7th floor bedroom overlooking The Temple for £25 per night 🙂 The massages are […]

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19 Nov 2019Audax · Biking

Nakhon Pathom 400km Audax

Buoyed by the success of my first 600 I thought it would be a grand idea to finish a Super Randonneur series whilst in Thailand 🙂 I managed to get entry to the Nakhon Pathom 400km Audax so I rested a few days at the Payamai resort which so reminded me of places that Pelosi […]

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13 Nov 2019Audax · Personal

My first 600km Audax – Bhumibol Dam, Thailand

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 […]

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