Running without pain…yet
I went for a run a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned it here with a map of the route I take, but the following day I could hardly walk. Most muscles in my body ached and I had done something to my left foot – it felt […]
Cycling from Calais to Brindisi, by Abraham Cohen
Calais-Brindisi
Calais To Brindisi: The Audax Route
John Davies, the Audax cyclist from Willsden has emailed back with some more details of the Audax route from Calais to Brindisi. He writes: Attached is an article from the most recent edition of Arrivรฉe, the magazine of Audax UK. It doesn’t really give you much information about […]
Autumn 2009
Tomorrow is the 1st September: in my mind that marks the start of Autumn. Met Basil & Liz Ford this afternoon for a beer – they have just returned from Puglia – to catch up about summer: mine in the north of England, theirs in southern Italy.The 1st […]
MapMyRide.com
Bought a magazine yesterday published by Cycling Weekly – it was a special called “Health & Fitness”. It certainly works as I lost 6 pounds when I took it to the till! Gripe apart it has some interesting bits & pieces inside if you can ignore the acres […]
A message from Mark Beaumont
I emailed Mark Beaumont a few days ago to say how much I had enjoyed reading his book The Man Who Cycled The World, and he has replied: Hi Andrew, Thanks for your email and glad your own plans for next summer are still on the go. Great […]
Brown leaves and shorter evenings
If you look back at the post I made on Friday 29th August 2008, it was the last one I made until April 2009. I suppose the initial enthusiasm of cycling to Italy had started to dim after the frenzied activity of August, the leaves had started to […]
Audax Cycling – Part 2
Some more useful information from “Audax John” who was in touch a couple of weeks ago, including a clarification about what “Audax Cycling” actually is:Audax is a slightly clandestine activity, with riders slogging through the lanes of our land at the dead of a night. No sag wagons, […]
