Category: Cycling

  • Friday 13th

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    I didn’t realise it was Friday 13th. I left for work attired for light drizzle, as forecast. Just after it began to chuck it down I punctured. Rear wheel, of course. Finding no sharp bits inside my tyre I started to replace the holey tube with a (hopefully) leak-free one, but two dogs ran up…

  • Welsh Tour Rider

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    The 94th Tour de France starts on Saturday, and it starts in London. Freakier than that, the Tour de France – the biggest and most important cycle race in the world – will start with Geraint Thomas from Cardiff within the peleton. Crazy. Geraint used to ride with Cardiff JIF, a club I was attached…

  • Try-a-Tri 2007

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    OK, so I wasn’t really lazing around on the sofa on Sunday. I was up at 5.30am to get to Cardiff and take photos for the Cardiff Triathletes’ novice Try-a-Tri triathlon. I took almost 600 snaps, thanks to a new SanDisk II Ultra 4GB memory card. Most of those photos have gone up on the…

  • Down time

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    It’s good to be back on the bike. My hamstring injury didn’t seem to be getting much better so I tried to take a full 9 days off any sort of exercise, which included my daily cycle to work. Very inconvenient. I can’t say that it feels as though it has helped much (but it…

  • Haunted Cycle Route

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    Most evenings cycling home up the Clyne Valley cycle path, and particularly if I don’t have my full beam on, I see the spectre of a ghostly jogger. At first I think I see a man running in the dark, ahead of my light, but I never catch him. He’s wearing a light top, I…

  • Green Machine Reborn

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    Some of you may remember this frameset. It just got rebuilt with a new Campag Mirage groupset and Campag Khamsin wheels for a cheap revamp to become a training bike. It’s a steel 853 frame, and it’s heavy, but so am I. This is about as clean as it will ever be, as I’m about…

  • Mass

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    I’ve been picking up the triathlon training over the last 5 or 6 weeks. You may remember that I was getting very bored, so starting running again seemed like a good idea. My various injuries seem to be staying down so far, and running is good. Swimming and cycling have been picking up too, and…

  • Landis’ Testosterone

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    I’m a little slow to catch up, because I’ve been involved in a number of things recently, but I’ve been reading up on Floyd Landis’ failed drug test. If you haven’t heard, the winner of this year’s Tour de France failed a test for testosterone levels after his stage win that put him back within…

  • Landis

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    Uh, did I say “out of contention”? OK, not if you attack on the first hill with over 120km to go, drop riders in the top 10 with bemused looks on their faces and blast your way over all the mountains on your own to both win the stage and come back to within 45…

  • TDF

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    The Tour de France is really starting to get going at last, even if it is in the last week. Flandis (the yellow jersey) went bang in the hills, losing lots of time. That put him out of contention so the race is wide open again – who can win it? It’s the last day…