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Wales 2025 Part 1
The first of my holidays finally arrived. It had been a very long, cold and wet winter. The one nighter to Rye a couple of weeks to test the tent went better than expected considering it was my first time. But didn’t really qualify as a vacation. This one was…
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Leith Hill Octopus
A very strange name for a ride. I was searching the internet for interesting routes, and amongst the results was this one. Leith Hill is a famous or infamous climb. It was a formidable part of the RideLondons that looped through Surrey between 2013 and 2021. I did this event…
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The Wonder of You - You Make Me Feel Brand New
The lyrics to these Elvis and Stylistics songs neatly sum up my life with Marcia. If you are not familiar with the words please search for and listen to the tracks. You Make Me Feel Brand New was playing when the two pictures below were taken at our wedding -…
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Camping- bikepacking
Regular readers will know about my adventures by bike. I once stayed in a Youth Hostel, mostly it’s B&B’s and hotel’s. They are still my preferred stopovers. But they come at a price, one that it’s not viable to continue paying. If I want to do more, I need to…
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My first Marathon
I’d been looking forward to this for nearly a year. But the prep didn’t go as planned. A month earlier my achilles tendon went pop as I ran, that’s the best way to describe what I felt. Taking a week away from running helped and I managed a few sessions…