Biking
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RCTC Russia tour Borisoglebsky to Uglich & The Volga
A good weather day with only a brief shower around midday and warm temperature we were on the road to Uglich for 10 hours or so but only riding for 4.5 hours to cycle the 53miles. Sergey’s rear axle snapped in two on his Russian bike and Alexander had a mishap which meant a short…
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RCTC tour – Voronino to Borisoglebsky
I woke upto a thunderstorm and heavy rain on this our first days cycling on the RCTC Golden Ring tour After my breakfast of porridge and what they called an omelette but more like a slice of cake in appearance it was time to reassemble the bike. There seemed to be a lack of urgency…
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Transfer to Voronino
i awoke to the sound of heavy rain, fortunately today was spent in a minibus with trailer driving the 140 miles to the Voronino country estate. A leisurely start at 12.17 due to Finnair deciding the Norwegian guys luggage was needed in Helsinki rather than Moscow! But gave me time to part assemble the bike…
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Another adventure starts
Well the adventure had a poor start as whilst waiting for the airport taxi at 7am I discovered my flight was at 8.35 not the midday I thought 🙁 with many expletives muttered I finally got through to BA to change my flight for Sunday at huge expense. I decided to go to the airport…
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A Testing Day
During Cambridge Science Week Sally and I visited the stand of Anglia Ruskin University where they were promoting their Physiological testing, we had a quick go on their stationary bikes. Being the sort of guy I am I immediately booked in for a real physiological assessment. So today I found myself in the Compass building on…
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Overview of my Iberian Coast to Coast Cycle ride
For my regular readers, all the previous posts are updated with Flickr links Its been a reasonable 1,000-mile bike ride at an average of 56 miles (90km) a biking day (it’s the first question everyone asks me). Things I’ve maybe learnt: a) It’s hopelessly impractical to do long distance train journeys in Europe with a touring…
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A DNF ride to end Portugal cycling.
Monday 26th February 2018 I liked Lost Lisbon Hotel & Casa de Pasto restaurant in Portugal so much, even with the walk to the toilet, that I decided to stay here all week and return home on Friday for Sally’s Cambridge Half Marathon this upcoming weekend. Monday had rain forecast in the afternoon so I…
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Final day of Iberian ride Beja to Lisbon Ferry
Saturday, February 24, 2018 The impending storm with its heavy rain fast approaching and the bike fixed I thought I would make this one long final riding day in the sun. One factor in my favour was a fair bit of the distance was downhill. Hotel Santa Barbara provided an early breakfast at 7 am so…
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High Cadence ride to Beja
Friday 23 February 2018 – My eldest boys birthday! Blimey, the Portuguese are so miserable I went down at the allotted hour for breakfast to find no sign of life except a living statue of a man in the hall, not a smile or grimace. Eventually, I worked out the restaurant was across the courtyard so as…
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Cycling & walking from Huelva to Mertola, Portugal
Thursday, February 22nd Well, the walking part was due to mechanical failure, first time in several years of cycle touring 🙁 I started off from Huelva early, stopping at the ham shop to get a quick cheese sandwich, with the firm intention of getting the rear derailleur sorted out, but the shop didn’t open till 10…