Category: Life

This has been a quiet week. It’s the Warrington half marathon tomorrow so I’ve taken a week off exercising to fully rest up for it. It means I’ve had loads of free time to kill, and that the weather has been perfect for training. Obviously. Last Sunday was my last run. I did the route…

Cancel last. Cancel everything. Momentous things are afoot. Sod the bike-bus, the camper van and the transfer-to-Cornwall job, I have a new plan; Canada! Home of the brave, land of the free. Or some such. It happened like this; I was looking on Gmaps Pedometer to chart a bike route. Before I’d zoomed in it…

I had another go at my Ironlap today. The bottle dynamo, which I repaired, re-positioned and tested before setting out, failed utterly. Again. I had to keep stopping, putting in the next position on my ‘phone, starting the GPS, and the satnav, seeing where I was supposed to go, then shutting it all down again…

After my bump two weeks ago I was not so good last week. You have to have confidence you know what you are doing and a sense of what you can do. Like when you are in a car and doing a reverse manoeuvre and there is a post or low wall. You have to…

After the hols last week I thought the works or the agency had got rid of me but it turned out they had just lost my number (along with their mobile.) Sunday evening they ‘phoned me on the landline and ruined my chi. I was quite looking forward to having Monday off. C’est la vie.…