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In the Bleak Midwinter II - Unfinished Business: Postsrcipt: Rosie
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In the Bleak Midwinter II - Unfinished Business. In June 2007 I completed the Bob Graham Round in under 24 hours. In December 2009, blizzards and extreme cold were endured for a midwinter round that took 24 hours and 22 minutes. This coming winter, I'm getting those 22 minutes back, and then some. Sunday, 13 February 2011. Rosie Lydia Smith - aged 6 days. 65279; Funnily enough, not making it already seems a much less bitter pill to swallow. She's fantastic. I'll be back winter BGR, perhaps when I turn 40.
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November | 2013 | sink, bike, run.
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Sink, bike, run. Three falls, but no submission. November 17, 2013 at 10:14 pm Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment. After detouring off-road on the cross bike with some mountain-bike-(ish) orienteering earlier this year, part two of bending the edges of my comfort zone was to actually race some cyclocross. I did a little bit of practising with Roy. Who did his best to teach me not to do a Joey. And, I did find that the cross mount/dismount is very handy for free speed in T1 and T2 at tris. I do know ...
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Things we like | sink, bike, run.
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Sink, bike, run. July 10, 2015 at 6:37 pm Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment. So after a long period of fingernail-paced drift. In this direction, we finally moved to Dawlish last year. In a big house, sized for noise, bikes, happy people and stuff. And Dawlish suits us (until Threlkeld drifts nearer and all the short people drift further). It’s a ladybird. That sells ice-creams bigger than my face, as well as cake, pies and beer swoon . If I cycle to work (12 miles flat or longer with hills. Ne...
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April | 2013 | sink, bike, run.
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Sink, bike, run. April 22, 2013 at 8:32 pm Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment. Are we nearly there yet? My legs are still happily (it’s a pain-pleasure thing) reminding me about my day out on Saturday at the Anniversary Waltz. This year, I had 150 fellrunners behind me, and another 150 ahead, and the sheep had had a better offer. Now I was at Dale Head, I had a decision to play with; seventh-time-lucky on finding a staggerable line straight down, or going with the potentially-flaky-but-reccied optio...
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‘Let un sink as swims’ | sink, bike, run.
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Sink, bike, run. Let un sink as swims’. December 31, 2012 at 5:32 pm Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment. I’m the one in the orange hat. It’s nicer than the pool, but where has everyone else gone? I gave daughter #1 a book of Saki short stories for Christmas, which dislodged the incantation ‘Let un sink as swims’ from the back of my head where these things huddle. Anyway, I looked it up, and the story. Which brings me to yesterday’s swim. Becki and I went to the pool for a quick (ha! I still didn’t t...
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If you can meet with tri-umph and disaster… | sink, bike, run.
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Sink, bike, run. If you can meet with tri-umph and disaster. July 14, 2010 at 11:23 pm Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment. Into the sea, you and me. Although I’ve dabbled with a quadrathlon (but didn’t inhale), it shocked me the other day to realise that I hadn’t actually done a triathlon for two years. I’d last completed a triathlon in Plymouth, as long ago as July 2008, and then a dire lack of training (do I surprise you? In a cold wet heap soon after the sea. Well; on all the tris I’ve done, I’ve...
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Seaweed, seaward and seawood | sink, bike, run.
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Sink, bike, run. Seaweed, seaward and seawood. November 2, 2013 at 11:42 pm Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment. I like a nice ritual (Catholic upbringing and all that), and all through the summer my reflective yellow winter running bib hangs on the end of the bannister, huddled against the sun, waiting for autumn to be in the air. It gradually gets covered in Stuff, before nudging its way forwards about the same time as the clocks go backwards. Someone once told me that for effective training, I sho...
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First swim of the year | sink, bike, run.
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Sink, bike, run. First swim of the year. May 8, 2014 at 7:42 pm Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment. It was murky in the Teign today, murky and cold (which is always the worst kind of murky). Edging into the water, it took a stumble of faith to get my head in-and-a-bit-under, and from then on half my world was river-green (and the other half was being rained on). Face-bitingly cold, and murky too, (which is the always the worst kind of cold). Did I say it was murky and cold? Leave a Comment ». 4 wind...
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Raining fellrunners | sink, bike, run.
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Sink, bike, run. April 22, 2013 at 8:32 pm Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment. Are we nearly there yet? My legs are still happily (it’s a pain-pleasure thing) reminding me about my day out on Saturday at the Anniversary Waltz. This year, I had 150 fellrunners behind me, and another 150 ahead, and the sheep had had a better offer. Now I was at Dale Head, I had a decision to play with; seventh-time-lucky on finding a staggerable line straight down, or going with the potentially-flaky-but-reccied optio...
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July | 2015 | sink, bike, run.
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Sink, bike, run. July 10, 2015 at 6:37 pm Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment. So after a long period of fingernail-paced drift. In this direction, we finally moved to Dawlish last year. In a big house, sized for noise, bikes, happy people and stuff. And Dawlish suits us (until Threlkeld drifts nearer and all the short people drift further). It’s a ladybird. That sells ice-creams bigger than my face, as well as cake, pies and beer swoon . If I cycle to work (12 miles flat or longer with hills. Ne...
