This is the first full calendar year I have had as a cyclist and as a serial weight lost addict. I felt it apt to celebrate the moment with a quick review of the year. I haven’t had everything my own way this year by any stretch of the imagination, and December especially has been [...]

Last year I managed to raise a £365.00 for The Chris Lucas Trust for childhood cancer by riding the Great North Bike Ride, and will of course be taking part in this event again to raise more money them.

However, I feel I could do more. So, based on that, my charity for all other [...]

Hi everyone, if you’ve not already, please follow my Facebook page at:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-22-Stone-Cyclist/198993967880?ref=ts.

Don’t worry, this isn’t my personal Facebook account, you don’t have to become friends with me if you don’t want to! It will keep you up to date with when I post a [...]

I will admit to being extremely hacked off now. Granted, it’s not ideal weather for road cycling (ice, snow and slush) but I am now desperate to get out on the bike. I went to bed last night still feeling slightly bunged up, but feeling positive that I had broken the back of it without [...]

As the song goes, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year”.

Despite the risk of being visited by 3 ghosts in the night who will attempt in vain to change my mind, I must admit to not being a huge fan of Christmas. Apart from the fact it seems that something always goes horribly [...]

I sit typing this surrounded by what looks like a gigantic ring of snotty hankies, smelling of vicks, sniffing, coughing and spluttering like a 1960′s Citroen. I have managed to go all of 2009 without so much as a sniffle, a cough or a sore throat and here we are, half way through December, and [...]

Last night, tired from an early start and a hard day at work, I wasn’t much in the mood for cooking. In the end I had scrambled egg on toast, which after getting up at 6 to do a turbo session followed by a full day at work wasn’t sufficient. The net result was a [...]

I’m not a big one for religion. I went to a school that would appear to outsiders to be very similar to Hogwarts but without the magic, and as such religion was pretty much forced down our throats. Unfortunately, any discussion contrary to the notion that the world was created in 7 days by a [...]

Hi everyone,

Time for another shameless plug! You may have seen a few photos appear on both my blog and on my Facebook profile that aren’t my usual point-and-click standard. That’s because they’re taken by a colleague from work, James Hole – who just happens to be the best landscape photographer in the North East.

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