From l'Etape Course 2019
From Steady Away
From A Break in the Training
From L'Etape du Tour 2019
From Fontainebleau Stop-off
From Zermatt
From Chamonix, but no Haute Route for us!
From Metric
From Put it to the People March

Year: 2019

l’Etape Course 2019

Friday, 21st June 2019

Exactly one month to go and the official course for l’Etape du Tour 2019 has been published. We knew what the course was already of course, but having the official map is nice, and it also shows a bit more detail about the locations of feeding stations etc. What with first fracturing my ankle and …

Steady Away

Wednesday, 12th June 2019

Three weeks ago I managed to fall, not far and not fast, off a rock climb in Buttermere. I was unlucky to hit a small (10cm x 10cm) ledge with my left foot in that fall. If I’d fallen 10cm less far or to either side I’d have missed the ledge, been embarrassed but totally …

A Break in the Training

Wednesday, 29th May 2019

Training for l’Etape du Tour had been going well, we’d even made our little 15 second “selfie videos” about our objectives for the Etape as requested by the Social Rider programme.

Fontainebleau Stop-off

Sunday, 21st April 2019

We’d travelled to the Chamonix in our van to give us some flexibility… Would the weather mean we’d need to go elsewhere? Would we drive to Zermatt? Would Brexit mean our return date needed to change? Would we want to stop off at Fontainebleau for some bouldering action on the way home? All of these …

Zermatt

Friday, 19th April 2019

Having failed to get our act together for the Haute Route for all sorts of reasons, and having booked a hotel in Zermatt that wouldn’t let us cancel without full payment (!), we decided to go and ski in Zermatt anyhow. This turned in to quite an exciting prospect as only Dawn out of our …

Chamonix, but no Haute Route for us!

Friday, 19th April 2019

Laetitia and I had planned to do the Haute Route with Ian, Rachel and Andy, and Dawn and Austin several months earlier. However, first Ian had to drop out due to work commitments. Then Austin had to bail because of illness. And now as we arrived in Chamonix Laetitia had caught a wicked flu from …

Metric

Wednesday, 17th April 2019

In the metic system one millilitre of water occupies one cubic centimetre, weights one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat it up by one degree centigrade – which is one percent of the difference between its freezing and boiling points. And an amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount, one gram, has …

Put it to the People March

Wednesday, 27th March 2019

Theresa May wants a third meaningful vote on her deal in the House of Commons in case MPs can be persuaded to change their minds now that they know more. I think we deserve the same opportunity. So last Saturday saw us at the Put it to the People march in central London – following …

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