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Four weeks minus one day to go (because I am disorganised)
First of all, thank you very much to Wossname: Newsletter of the Klatchian Foreign Legion and Discworld Monthly for your respective signal boosts for Lilac to Ventoux. Much appreciated! And greetings to any new readers who might have come here as a result of this signal-boosting ( Read more... ) -
Five weeks to go!
Five weeks from today, I will be riding up Mt Ventoux. It's 9:45 here as I'm writing this, so it's a fair bet I will already be underway (I'm hoping to leave early to avoid the worst of the heat in the exposed moonscape on the top of the mountain).
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Update
In other recent news, I have been off the bike for three weeks now, sidelined by a terrible respiratory bug which assaulted first my lungs, then my throat, and finally my sinuses. Normally I can shake off a cold pretty quickly, but this one was appalling. About half way through, I did a ride of less than 10km just to test how I was going, and came ( Read more... ) -
Some recent items of interest
Aussie Discworld fans, Sir Terry will be on the ABC 7:30 report tonight (Wednesday). If I'm understanding the 7:30 Report's website correctly, a transcript and/or clip should become available afterwards.
Also, as a result of his recent journey to Australia for Nullus Anxietas 3, there are a couple of other interviews to listen to:
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I did a silly thing, but it worked out all right in the end
Hello! I'm still here, and still training hard. Spring has arrived, and with it, the chance to do lovely long rides in the sunshine through fields and woods that are beginning to turn green again. Lambs are being born. The birds are shouting their heads off in the trees. It's my favourite time of year :D ( Read more... ) -
On the road again
The winter has taken a bit of a toll on my training regime. The shorter days mean it's impossible to ride before or after work, and the freeze and the snow we had around Christmas time severely cramped my style for several weeks. I've been riding indoors on the trainer, but that's not the same as getting out in the fresh air, and having a nice ' ( Read more... ) -
A momentous occasion
Today was a glorious day. I went out for my first ride ever with the Powerbikers. :D
I was so nervous. Somehow I managed to choke down a bowlful of couscous for lunch before leaving the house (no mean feat given that my stomach was tying itself in knots), and then I went off to the Café Jachthoorn, which is the club's unofficial(?) headquarters to ( Read more... ) -
What have we been up to lately?
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Fundraising
This is the page concerning the fundraising side of Lilac to Ventoux. I'm planning to list a number of options for donating in aid of Alzheimer's research, with the primary link/s being the first in the list. It's going to take a little time for me to gather links, so this page will be a 'work in progress' for a while, but it will stay at the top ( Read more... )
