Category: General Stuff

HUSBAND, FATHER, WRITER, PAINTER and ageing athlete who hasn’t quite hung up the lycra.

A Storm Coming

You know when your nose is running and it feels like you’re swallowing glass, and your ear aches, and there is a storm coming, and they haven’t cancelled the race, and you can’t sleep, and you check the phone, and they haven’t even postponed, and there is still a storm coming, and you decide common…
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Another Year Another Go.

Well that was a funny old year. Obviously, outside of my own direct experience it was in many ways a horrible nasty little year – best forgotten.

Brilliant, brilliant, lovely…

Anyway, I had my inguinal canal patched up.

I am not a hypochondriac but…

Over the last few weeks I have been struggling to get rid of a bad cough.

And so it begins.

As alluded to previously, I had a good Christmas. Knowing that in the New Year I was going to deprive myself of a lot of bad stuff for a while; I over indulged. I have no problem with that. That said I did get a little shock when I weighed myself on New Years Day.…
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Hawaii Five O

Never really watched the TV series back in the 70’s. More of a Starsky and Hutch, Kojack fan. Even enjoyed the occasional Colombo. But Hawaii five O suits my needs. That’s the plan. Don’t know if it’s going to come off but I am going to try. I am not trying to go back just…
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2015 – Injuries Bike Racing and an Ironman.

The water is warm and clear. We have just swum over the seemingly endless green carpet of sea grass and are now into the shallow surf zone. As I turn to breathe out I see my competitors’ feet touch the fine pale limestone sand of Alcudia Bay and then start to run. I try to…
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If you can’t run for a while – there is a lot to be said for making a SHARK ROCKET.

At the age of forty-seven I realised I’d never Ride through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in my hair.   Nor was it something I could have contemplated at thirty seven, the age Mrs. Jordan was when it first dawned on her too and maybe it would not have been possible…
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