The Yorkshire Gallop is a lovely 200km audax: Nigel’s route takes us down the banks of the River Swale though leafy lanes, then into Thirsk past the affluent race course,[…]
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Author: balancingontwowheels
Husband, Father, Christian and Cyclist. Blogging about cycling, walking and thinking.
First Audax of Spring
Beasts and mini-beasts from the East might have swathed the country in snow, but as the first day of Spring arrived I grabbed my chance to get a joyful 200km[…]
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NHS Couch to 5K: Journal
I need to change something. My diet just isn’t shifting the weight and I’m struggling to keep motivated to diet properly. I’ve started swimming, but only once a week at[…]
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Straight on at Rosies
The rain was splattering against the windscreen as I drove down to Alfreton for an early season Audax. If I was doing this solo… just going for a ride… I’d have[…]
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#MillionsMissing
Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul, and why are you so disquieted within me? I’ve been recording stories of cycling for nearly ten years, but over[…]
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Petrolhead Angel
The blowout on my rear tyre was fairly loud, the inner tube was shredded and the tyre wall was split – but a ‘petrolhead’ angel came to my rescue: my[…]
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Highways England to ban cyclists from trunk road
Highways England propose to prohibit cyclists from using the A63 Trunk Road and associated slip roads. An incidental impact of their ban would prevent me from cycling the one mile from[…]
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