Wake Up

I'd pretty much forgotten this existed

Just been on a lovely week long trip to Newquay (pics linked over on my Flickr site)

The week of excess living has led me to come home feeling slightly down about being home, and has spurred me to get healthy, so yesterday I went for a run - 2.9 miles.

Last night lying in bed with sore legs I decided that I need some goal to achieve - so from now on i will be doing a 30-in-30 - that is going out and doing some decent exercise, be that riding, swimming or running for an average of at least once a day for 30 days (I can't really be sure i'll have enough time everyday due to work and homelife, so an average of 30 is the best I can do).

Lets see how I get on :-)
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Update -

15.04.08

I made it two days in a row - ran 1.5 miles last night, and then a further 2.6 miles riding to the pub and back :-)

does that count?
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16.04.08 - Nothing, nada, zilch (-1)

17.04.08 - 2.5 Mile run (-1)

17th Feb - Quick Spin Round Woods

Quick loop around woods, looking for new trails and playing on the little shore sections

Happy 2008!

New Year so these are a must:

• Proper mileage
• More variation in riding - i.e. not just milling round lordswood and same south downs routes
  
• Running at least twice a week
• Chopper Restoration
• Learn to Weld & Fabricate
• Stop eating as much crap
• Cut down on alcohol
  
• Organise myself - get a diary and use it
• Visit all the people I keep saying I'll visit
• Stop wasting time and money
  

Other things i'd LIKE to do in 2008 (funds dependant) - go on at least two trips abroad, a Direct Access Motorbike course, WVO conversion for car, buy a house :-)

In the boring near future I also need to get this blog moved onto something like wordpress, or moved onto a blogger "custom domain" so I can use widgets and toys on it and make it useful.

Today is Led Zeppelin Day.

ENJOY the best band ever:

Anyone got a Trabant spare?

This is nice:
http://trabicustomizer.com/trabi/
I want some Communist Bloc motoring now, always fancied one :-)

Back in the fold: At Last

Two days, two rides, new bike (replacing the nicked/knackered ones), beautiful weather:

Finished the 456 on Fri night - the BB is still too short despite using a 121mm axle on the Deore crankset - should be 118 really (as far as i can work out), with a 121mm as extra, but I've not heard of Deore cranks running a 126mm axle (which it seems i need). Maybe my super human arms have forced the cranks onto the axle past the splines. GRRRR


anyway :-)

quick hr up Lordswood on the Saturday to test bike and get back into riding, after 2 meaningful rides in two months. Got lost as usual and got back with itchy legs and scratched forearms

Nipped up to Farley this morning and took in a 15 mile route. Glorious weather - shorts and t-shirts weather, felt hot in my long sleeve, but thin as anything, merino top. Some nice descents
but mainly just a gentle spin with quite a bit of road (just followed the Hants cycling route). I'm so painfully unfit its embarrassing, have to work on that, although I seem to have been saying that for circa two years. Funny point was spinning along an overgrown bridleway, adjusting the glasses on my newly speccy 4-eyes face, and my front wheel disappearing down a nice big hole, sending me supermanning over the bars onto my shoulder (which aches a bit now). Took me a few seconds to work out what the hell had happened - usually when you crash you get that "fuckityfuckityfuck" moment just before you meet terra firma, this time I just suddenly ended up lying in the grass staring at the sky :-)


Bike is ace, build seems a lot lighter than i thought it would - the forks are ace, and it rides really nicely. Think it needs a 60mm stem though (80mm was bought for the Mount Vision, but never used before it broke), and desperately needs bigger tyres.

Saw deer in the throes of the rutting season which was nice, no deer porn though, sadly :-)


More photos over at Flickr

People Annoy Me

So you've gone shopping with the kids, in a large supermarket (possibly called Tescos).

Fair enough

Except when you feel its a remotely sensible idea to let the kids trail about the aisles, following the trolley in one of these:

Barging into people, getting in the way of trolleys and feet, moving erratically every which way, having to be steered every 5 seconds by daddy, all the time emitting an incredibly annoying droning sound like a dying food mixer.

If you think its a sensible idea

Don't breed.