mastodon 4.7.3Retired. Live in Derby, cycle for fun. Finished Tour Divide race, Tour Aotearoa and various long distance audaxes. Member of Guardian reading, tofu eating wokerati.
Coffeeneuring season starts next weekend. If you like cycling and stopping for a cuppa, not just coffee, then take a look here:
Quite a straight forward challenge to cycle for a drink once a week for 7 weeks.
#Coffeeneuring #coffeeneuring2026
Year 12 for me with a pic from last year.
Just sitting down in a local cinema to watch ‘50 years of Punk’. It is across the road from Derby Assembly Rooms where I saw The Clash and The Police performing back in the late ‘70’s
Finally my first Audax of the season, the 104km Charnwood in the Spring event this afternoon. Total distance was 137.5km by the time I had ridden to and from the start. Felt slow all day although I did achieve my regular Audax pace.
Wind on the way home picked up and brought almost to a standstill on a couple of occasions.
Nice rest now.
On this morning's spin I put in an effort on 4.4km stretch of fairly quiet road. Strava told me I had done a PB so I looked at the segment. Over 4,000 other riders were quicker than me so I decided to look at the old gits (65+) and I was just outside the top 100. But, the fella two seconds quicker than me, with an unusual Italian name, is almost certainly someone I went to primary school with who I haven't seen since 1970. We are both still localish #BikeTooter
Currently reading Gillian O’Brien’s excellent book ‘The Darkness Echoing’.
In it she mentions how a 14 year old boy in 1854 was locked up for three days for annoying passengers by shooting marbles.
A bit harsh but I would consider it an acceptable sentence for peeps who play their phone loud on trains.
Happening in Derby on Saturday from 10am to 4pm.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk027rpeelo
(The photo used is NOT Derby, surely something local could have been found)
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