Most Sundays I resent being woken up by “Lady Ga Ga”, “Pink” or “Kelly Clarkson” (or whatever teeny pop Suzy has loaded on her iPod), and I have to admit that when the words “I’m not here for your entertainment” warbled from the tiny, tinny speakers of the iPod alarm clock at 6am, I was [...]

Hello everybody,

Just 3 days left now until the Great North Bike Ride and so far I have raised £277 on justgiving.com.

If you have already donated, thank you so much – it’s an excellent cause.

If you haven’t – WHY NOT!? Get yourself on to http://www.justgiving.com/22stonecyclist/ as soon as you can, and [...]

This weekend my body taught me a real lesson.

One of the problems I am currently wrestling with (which will explain the recent lack of weight loss posts) is the fine balance of fuelling myself correctly to ride the amount of miles I do whilst losing weight and not being hungry all the time. Not [...]

Richard Sill said to me after the recent club 10 that if he weighed the same as me, I’d beat him. It got me thinking. Is that really true, or just a nice sentiment from someone trying to encourage me?

To try and find out, I set about trying to use all manner of fancy [...]

Tonight was the final Tyneside Vagabonds Club 10 time trial of the year, and I’ve been looking forward to it for several weeks. I missed a 10 mile TT whilst on holiday, and then the next 10 was changed to a 25 due to road works. It was a chance for me to race my [...]

One of my original intentions when I started this journey was to enter the Great North Bike Ride, a sponsored 54 mile bike ride from Seahouses in Northumberland to Tynemouth in North Tyneside. The ride raises money for the Chris Lucas Trust. The trust cares for children and young adults suffering [...]

I apologise in advance for this rant as it is off topic, but it has been coming for some time. Tyler Hamilton’s positive doping control earlier in the year nearly provoked this post. The news today that Danilo Di Luca’s positive test in the Giro d’Italia has been confirmed via laboratory cross analysis finally pushed [...]

I’m beginning to resent my shiny new Giant TCR Advanced. All I’ve done on it so far is suffer – and last night was no different.

Lucy from the Vags has been telling me for weeks I need to go to the Vags training session on a Thursday night, and for weeks I’ve been saying, [...]

In order for Craig of the Vags to see what I’m eating so he can pat me on the back/tell me I am an idiot (delete as applicable) I have added a rather neat calendar widget to the blog. To get to it, click on the “Food & Training Calendar” link under “Pages” on the [...]