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Biking This Summer

Friday, July 28th, 2006

This map shows the long-distance bike rides I’ve done in the last year or so (purple) and those I’m hoping to do in the next few months (turquoise.) The sections are: Bath to Bedwyn (final stage in a cross-England route), Southampton to Bournemouth, Whitstable to Dover, Putney to Croydon, London to Eastborne (in at least [...]

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Missing Ingredient

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

I do like the look of the new “Ski Weather” dashboard widget that came with the Mac OS X 10.4.4 upgrade released last week. And yes, it does cover the Scottish ski resorts too.
Of course, this being the Scottish ski scene, there isn’t actually any snow yet…

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Snap

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

It’s incredibly cold at the moment - sub-zero in London. This might have been a contributory factor to my bike was playing up on the way home from work yesterday - the chain fell off about ten times, and then snapped spectacularly. So now I’m left with a useless bike (not that it was particularly [...]

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Micro-O at SLOW’s OK Nuts Trophy

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

SLOW is going to have a Micro-O section at the OK Nuts Trophy regional event at the end of November, on the middle part of the open courses. Interesting - I might “run up” at this event to try it out. Micro-O is a bit like timed Trail-O - it’s about picking the right control [...]

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Furthest from the coast

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

The point in Great Britain furthest from the coast is “just east of Church Flatts Farm, about a mile south-east of Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire” according to the Ordnance Survey in a snippet in this old BBC news article. (Update - featured in a later BBC news article here, and confirmed by the OS [...]

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x-England Part 6

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

I completed the east-most section of my cross-England bike ride on Sunday, going from Rochester to Whitstable, a major seaside resort in North Kent, on a beautifully sunny day for October. It was one of the longer days - 45 miles - but, as you would expect for the Thames/Medway, it was exceedingly flat.
I [...]

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x-England Part 5

Monday, September 26th, 2005

Another short-ish section (30 miles) of my Cross-England bike ride completed on Sunday afternoon. It’s really starting to get dark early these days - the light is fading after 7pm. The original plan was to go all the way to Sittingbourne, but with no trains running that far, I scaled back my plans, and eventually [...]

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X-England Part 4

Sunday, September 18th, 2005

[Updated] I biked another section of my cross-England journey yesterday - going from Islington to Erith. (The Putney to Islington section I did a few months earlier - I might do it again via the cycle paths to “link up” fully.) The original plan was to go to Dartford, but I stopped a few miles [...]

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x-England Part 3

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

I did another leg in my cross-England cycle today, going from Staines to Putney in London, along the River Thames towpath for pretty much the whole way, except for a pleasant excursion through Richmond Royal Park. I was, as before, following National Cycle Route 4. It was a relatively short day (I started so late [...]

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x-England Parts 1 & 2

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Well, that was fun. I must do more of that.
Sunday - Bedwyn (just east of the east/west England watershead) to Reading, via Savernake Forest, Hungerford and Newbury. On the whole, a very pleasant ride, generally along the canalside, on good, recently surfaced cyclepaths. There was the occasional odd route choice - the road leading east [...]

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