• You are what you eat!

    Catching up with the BBC guy training for his 120 mile cycle ride. There’s some really useful comments on sports nutrition posted to the article…see here. I particularly like the fact that there’s a website called flapjackrecipe.com! 🙂 Here’s some of my experience with eating proper for sport. Discovering Nutrition! My first encounter with basic […]

  • A good 20 miles – and some amateur physiology

    Went out for a ride by myself this afternoon. Managed 21.24 miles in 1:24:31, averaging 15.0 mph overall. A good ride but my knees hurt a bit – probably beacause I’ve not been doing my stretches while I’ve not been cycling to work – must keep that up even when I’m not doing a daily […]

  • 30 miles today!!!

    Despite feeling rubbish yesterday, Sal and I took advantage of the good weather and started cycling to Cricklade (18 miles round trip). We were feeling good so carried on to South Cerney and came back via Purton! Sal was pretty knackered by the end of it but other than a bit of pain from rubbing […]

  • BBC Cycling challenge and a useful link

    Serendipity! I happened across this on the BBC Website – a cyclist very much like me who’s won some “competition”. Seems his prize is to train for 10 weeks for a 120 mile ride and keep a video diary of the process. Here’s the link. There’s another cool link to a site called Everyday Cycling […]