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First Post!

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My first post on the new Cycleography!

Firstly well done to fellow pedaller Ade for getting the site together and sorting out all the techy stuff to interface with Garmin etc.

Over the course of the next year we’re hoping that this site will be a hub of activity for all of our cycling trips and events. We will be introducing a sponsorship page, so that you can sponsor us for an annual cycling target rather than individual events – of which there were many last year!

Winter is a tough time to start a cycling blog. During the Summer there are lots of interesting rides to talk about, but at the moment it’s all about trying to find some motivation for Winter training, which is proving difficult. The current target is only to cycle 4.5 hours per week, which sounds really easy, but when the weather means you have do do a lot of it on the turbo trainer it becomes much more difficult!

I’ll be back soon, so thanks for reading and check back soon for updates :)

G.

That was the year that was

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Well it’s almost a full  year since my last post (Wowzers!). I’m not quite sure where all the days went :¬/ but here’s a brief synopsis of the more memorable ones…

Since my last update I have moved jobs, spent three months working in Ottawa, spent a month working in Belgium, attended 2 funerals, spent a couple of weeks in Zurich, been for a crazy long weekend in Paris for the Rugby and most importantly (in the context of this site at least) cycled from Glasgow to John O’Groats with my good friends Geroge and Paul. In doing so we managed to raise over £1900 for the Special Care Baby Unit at the Queen Mother’s Hospital in Glasgow (see here for more details or to belatedly sponsor us).

Planning is already underway for this year’s trip, GLASTO ’09 – Glasgow to Stornoway (and beyond), so watch this space for further updates.
It’s good to be back in the saddle :¬)

W/E 18/05/2008

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Until the weekend this week was spent mostly on the trainer putting in a bunch of half hour speed sessions trying to maintain an average speed of 20mph. The first 5 minutes of the half hour was spent trundling along slowly building up to hit 20mph at the end of the 5 minutes, giving me 25 mins to get the avg speed up from around 15 to 20+ mph.

It was pretty tough going, especially given that the previous week had been spent entirely on the sauce. I’m sure I could have bottled the sweat spewing from my pours and sold it down my local park. Double filtered, extra fermented, sipping liquor.

On Saturday I was cycling down to Rhu with PH joining me on route. The route I’d planned would take us to Balloch on the cycle path and then up through Glen Fruin to Garelochhead and down in to Rhu.

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New Section Added

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I’ve added a new ‘Tours’ section (see the menu above) to the site which so far doesn’t consist of much but will be gradually getting updated over time.

At the moment there are some details from my trip around the Western Isles last year and some details of the upcoming Glasgow To John O’Groats trip. Mostly just route maps but it is still a work in progress.

I’m not sure about the navigation within the sections, this WordPress thing isn’t the easiest thing in the world to use for more static content.