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Ridgeway FAIL
This weekend we attempted to ride the Ridgeway, and totally failed. I’d passed by this 90-mile long National Trail the weekend before, and noted that the ground was tinder dry: ideal for mountain...
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Chasing the sunset
Racing the sunset…I wait until the fields behind the house turn orange, then hop on my bike and pedal like mad up the hill. Tonight I won.Filed under: Dorset, Isle of Purbeck, Mountain biking
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The Sika Duathlon
Crossing the finish line of my first ‘duathlon’ yesterday, held in nearby Wareham Forest…a four mile trail run followed by four laps of a mountain bike course (c12 miles), followed by a couple more...
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Busy May
Approaching Swanage Bay at the end of a seventeen mile dawn run along the coast path, yesterday. The cloud and haze were quickly dispersing, promising a gorgeous sunny breakfast on the seafront with...
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South Downs Way, in a day
Like the title says, really. I’ve mountain-biked this amazing National Trail several times in the past, over a long weekend. Yesterday, on impulse, I had a crack at completing it in one day. The South...
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Wales Coast 2 Coast by mountain bike
What a fantastic adventure! I’ve just mountain biked coast to coast across Wales, from Conwy in the north, to Port Talbot in the south. Six of us had a crack at it, with only three of us completing...
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DRRT Mountain Bike Challenge
This morning I completed the splendid DRRT Mountain Bike Challenge, a c35 mile bimble around the hills of North Dorset. All good.Filed under: Dorset, Mobile phone photos, Mountain biking
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Minton Batch
The Long Mynd is a huge flat-topped hill in Shropshire, close to the Welsh border. We were on our way to an MTB Enduro race in Wales…it seemed rude not to stop off en route for an evening ride. Minton...
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Howies Coed y Brenin Enduro 2013
When a friend (an actual real cyclist) asked if I wanted to go to an Enduro MTB event with him, I happily agreed and entered, without the slightest clue what an ‘Enduro’ might be. It turns out that in...
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Alone in Mid-Wales
It’s always possible to have a true adventure (or indeed, a full ‘epic’) within a few hours of your home. Our ride across Wales this summer was one such adventure…and it did indeed include one ‘epic’...
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Isle of Man End to End
The End to End Race is a mountain bike race held every year on the isle of Man, with up to a thousand entrants. We tried our own End to End, following a convoluted and indirect route which stayed...
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Bournemouth Beach
The ultimate in adventure expeditioning…taking my little girl for a ride along Bournemouth seafront (Sandbanks to Boscombe) and back yesterday, along with a friend and her little one. The gear shifts...
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2013 miles in 2013
2013 miles in 2013…DONE!!! I completed my 2013 New Year’s resolution with six hours to spare. I had planned to finish off the year with a New Year’s Eve ‘triathlon’ around the Isle of Purbeck, but I...
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Perfect Day
Today started with my first mountain bike ride in far too long…I had almost forgotten what a buzz riding singletrack is, and it was also far too long since I’d been up on the stunning Purbeck ridges....
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Scottish Highlands MTB crossing
Late in the summer hols, three of us set off with heavily loaded mountain bikes, to ride across the Scottish Highlands. We were following the route of a race called the Highland 550 which took place...
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