What a busy sporting weekend that was. Lets work through it. Firstly this was the weekend of the annual Olney 7’s rugby tournament which started at 10:30am on Saturday. I wandered down in the afternoon to take a few photographs and to watch my grandson Harry playing for one of the Olney teams. What a…
Some photographs I took with my iPhone on todays bike ride to Grafham Water.. If you are interested you can find the ride details in my Bricycling cycling blog from the menu above.. Here are the pictures..
Its catch up time again here so I have combined some of this weeks bloggable activities, such as they are, into one post. Whenever any of the cycle racing ‘grand tours’ are on TV my external activities are limited to those that can fit into a morning slot. I therefore had to scratch my head to…
Having accidentally found an old cycle racing photo of me and then posting it on my Facebook Page yesterday I thought I might try and follow it up and find some other old photos to make a blog post out of it with a bit of my cycling history. After a rummage around in jumble that is my…
Another ride today and another increase in distance, 72km today but no real increase in the average speed but I suppose that goes along with the increased distance, a bit of levelling out. The ride began and ended with two big houses. Well almost began with, about 8km after the start I went past Castle Ashby, pictured above,…
Well that went better than expected.. I managed an extra 16km on top my last ride.. 61km today, more than I expected and intended.. and the average speed was up by 0.3kph.. marginal gains.. Once again I was slightly reluctant to go out and even as I left I wasn’t quite sure where I was going to…
I forced myself to get out on the bike this morning after what seemed a long spell of lethargy. It was actually eight days since my last ride. Just lately though it has been all too easy to find an excuse not to ride. I am not sure exactly why. I have had a few…
