Biting the Cherry of existential delight, is moving across to a new home, not that expect anyone reading this to rush and bookmark it, but still, it will be a part of the art of pleisure from now on, all things editorial and stuff like that.....

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"Biting the cherry of existential delight",

I am going to write something about something really soon......

Yes well I am still here, still training. Managed to ride up the Ventoux a few weeks back, what a great experience, plus another race that was 165km which I got round in under 5 hours so things are good.

Got La Marmotte coming up a week tomorrow.

Sent my novel agents pack off to 5 agents, got two rejections already!

I'm still here, still riding 100s of kms a week. Did a 130km randonnee last weekend, and did the Isle of Wight randonnee (106km) a few weeks back. Got a big one coming up this weekend: Mont Ventoux, that should be interesting.

Still doing the art and the writing too. Hopefully some results will show up!

What better way to start the new cycling season with a long weekend of riding in the Pyrénées. Pau is right on the doorstep of the Pyrénées and is just five hours by TGV from Paris and has an international airport. What could go wrong ( Read more... )

Off to Pau on Thursday for the long awaited "training" weekend, of course the col d'aubisque is still closed, but there will still be Marie Blanque to test our legs, or my apparent lack of gearing. I am sticking with 39x26 for this one, and everyone tells me I won't make it ( Read more... )

Can I really bother with this much longer? Yes I've been riding, yes I've been getting the novel together, everything in life, but this seems a little superfluous right now. I think I should concentrate on artofpleisure.com instead.

There I was at Longchamp, noting things of interest, firstly. like some guys who had set up a bike stall for Kuota bikes, don't know them myself, but looked real roadie stuff. Good idea to put a stall up at Longchamp. Secondly, two guys going round behind a MOTORBIKE, I have never been passed so fast, no chance to get on the tail of them. They were ( Read more... )

Maybe this journal should be about 6 guys who don't really know each other, who have only 1 thing in common: road cycling, well 2 things if you count being an expat in France. Anyway, how these 6 guys can be thrown together at random and not agree on a single damn thing. Every week it's the same, where to meet, what time to meet, what route to take ( Read more... )

100km Saturday, 50km yesterday, the suns out today but no time to cycle, next ride Thursday.

Training last 7 days: 200 and something
Road training last 12 months to Mar 05: 3800+km
Current chapter(s): 29 Plastic 31 Outro Intro / 32 Push
Current artwork(s): Pleisure / Heretic / 7x7 (ArtMyArt)