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<title>Welcome to the Gloom</title>
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<title><![CDATA[Should Have Had Some Breakfast]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[I woke to find the sun shining, the house, warm, and little chance of the 8:50 downpour, there was only one thing I wanted to do... RIDE.
I elected to to use my normal route, but with the sections in a different order to see if it made an difference to time, speed, pain or distance.  On heading out I was shocked to find it wasn't windy (yet).
It was odd to be on parts of the normal route an hour earlier than usual the light falls differently and the temperatures are lower.  And all the normal people I pass were missing.
I did come across a familiar being on the last part of section 2, it was Simon, on *his* Pink Surly (he took a picture of me which makes me look like very thin), oh the trauma of turning up at the party wearing the same dress, but no matter we survived and after a brief pause headed off in different directions.  I spied him again later on, but I was pedalling on empty by then.
Sections 2,3 and 4 went off as normal, but that left section 5, which is usually section 1 still to do, by this time I was stuffed, completely unprepared for doing a 40 miler - skipping any breakfast, just half a pint of water.  Jamming a mars bar in a back pocket would have been more than a clever idea, however, being a dumbass that was far beyond me.  So I suffered though the last section, and headed home, covering a disappointing distance of 41.9 miles at 12.5mph.
I'm hungry and sleepy now.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:59:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Finding Motivation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[I'm ever-so-slowly finding motivation to do stuff to my house, I've been slow so far, but a chance meeting with a plumber this morning and my 70's era deathtrap of a gas fire's been disconnected, leaving my free to tear out the fire and fireplace make my living room a staggering 5sqft larger.
It's time to dust off my demolition skills and then my repair skils.
The biggest job on the house it the new electrics, which I'm really not looking forward too, as it means a LOT of holes will be appearing on the plasterwork (which is wonky as all hell anyway, so not really too much of a worry, but covering everything I own with dust *is* a problem) - I've also got to channel for tv and ethernet cables (if you're going to make a mess, you might as well make a big one - that's my motto*)

* my second motto, the first being 'I'll do it tomorrow'

Today's ride consisted of 33miles of slippery drizzle, which was nicer than yesterday's soaking... but only just.  .7mph avg faster today too, which wouldn't be hard as I had a nightmare yesterday.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:09:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2x Fourtys]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[I followed up yesterday's 40 with another 40, but in a brain-dead moment I followed the exact same route, which isn't something I like to do too often (apart from Monday - Thursday 30milers, but that's because I don't have time to deviate from the norm).
Today's speed was .1mph slower than yesterday, but 1.2 miles longer.. OK so I changed the route a *small* amount, but nothing significant, but certainly useful.. the additional path might actually become part of regular rides.
Absolutely nothing of any interest happened, except, as with last week, yesterday was windy a hell, today was windy as normal, I think it rained yesterday too, but, as with most rides, I have no recollection of what the conditions were.
Now I'm off to doodle socket positions on the walls of my house for someone to make electrical when, erm, I remember find an electrician.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:54:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[July 2008 - Summary]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Crap.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:29:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Gloomies Return]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It rained a lot today, or at least I think it did, I tend to stop noticing the rain when I'm battling into a 35+mph wind.  Another yellow lens day.
The ride just turned into a nose-to-the-front-tyre slogfest, but, this has, over the past year become the norm and days where the trails are dry and the air isn't mostly water are the rarity... bring back 2003-2006 please, they were much more palatable.
Bikewise it was the KMC chain that started to "do that thing it does", but, hey, first time it's rained after the first 300 miles on the chain, so it was obviously going to "do that thing it does" - I hope to find a chain that doesn't stretch like elastic and doesn't do the KMC-thing.
At least the rain kept the flies away.  But for most of the ride I was just bored, staring at the ground thinking of things other than cycling.
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:30:11 GMT</pubDate>
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