If you’d watched me reading the story about traffic police in Nairn pulling over ten motorists for driving dangerously close to an unmarked police cyclist, you might have seen me punch the air. It’s not that I take delight in the misfortune of others – far from it. But I’ve been banging on about road… Read more »
Posts Tagged: cycling
Holy Spokes, I’m a (trike) pilot!
. WThe very first thing I did on my very first day back to work this year was gain a qualification. After a couple of hours’ training in the rain I am now proudly a qualified pilot for Inverness based cycle charity Spokes for Folks. My first outing with real, live passengers is on Friday… Read more »
Mark Beaumont, translating adventures into business advice.
I learned a new phrase the other day and it puts a lot of the exercise I do into perspective. ‘Type II Fun’ is the kind of stuff that hurts – really hurts – while you’re doing it, and you only start to enjoy it once it’s over. It’s stuff like a killer circuits class… Read more »
Handing the journey over to ‘The Gods of Travel’
My life has become marginally less stressful since I started entrusting my fate on public transport to ‘The Gods of Travel’. They don’t exist of course, but that doesn’t stop me from handing over responsibility to them for on-time departure and arrival times. Will my train get there on schedule and will there be a… Read more »
She’s just finished LeJoG on foot; activity goals trumped by mum.
There’s no point pretending – I have come home from holiday in need of a rest. I’ve never been able to lie on a sun lounger on holiday – certainly not when there are boats to sail, tennis to play and hills and villages to explore by bike. And that’s without counting the cocktail-fuelled dancing… Read more »
Motorists don’t ‘own the road’ any more than cyclists do. Fact.
I opened the door to my postie on Monday morning and was pleased to see him back. But where had he been? On holiday? Moved to another route? No – our postie had been in hospital, and to prove it (he was still wearing shorts, in spite of the clocks having gone back) he showed… Read more »
Blowy Borders 150 miles by bike & Rally Round Rona!
If you had asked me last week whether it would be meteorologically possible to be cycling into a head wind for all but about a mile and a half of a 150 mile round trip route I’d have scoffed and told you ‘of course not!’ But that was before we cycled The Four Abbeys route… Read more »
Woefully underprepared – but Etape Loch Ness is in the bag.
I have rarely been so sure I was doing the right thing as I was at 6 o’clock last Sunday morning. I had been harbouring serious doubts about whether I was up to it, but as we cycled through Inverness city centre towards the start line of Etape Loch Ness 2017, my fears began to… Read more »
Inverness to Edinburgh by bike? Crazy idea!
If there was one text which summed up last weekend it was the one I received from my friend Jinny at around 8pm on Saturday. It read ‘Arnica here, Prosecco poured’, which meant it was time to heave my aching limbs out of the bath in our hotel room in Perth and make my way… Read more »