A Simple Life of Luxury

Tales from a down-shifted family
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Category: Sports

John O'Groats 0

Cycling / Travel

JOGLE Day 1 – John O’Groats to Inverness

Daily Stats – Day 1 Miles Ridden: 118.3 miles Metres Climbed: 5112 feet Time Riding: 7:15:58 Average Speed: 16.2 mph Total Miles Ridden: 118.3 miles Total Ascent: 5112 feet Total Time Riding: 7:15:58 Todays Weather: Misty, Sunny then rain rain rain. Day 1 of JOGLE and we had all met at Thurso the night before...

Haggis, Neeps and Tatties 0

Family / Lifestyle / Play / Swimming / Travel

JOGLE Day Minus 2 – Wild Swimming in Loch Lomond

Holiday time!!! if you can call cycling the length of Britain from John O’Groats to Lands End a ‘holiday’.. Or driving it for that matter as that’s what Anna will be doing acting as support crew along with Morgan. Before we could do that though we had the small matter of driving North to John...

Cue Sheets 1

Cycling / Technology

JOGLE Tracking Technology

As you should know by now we are about to embark on a charity cycle ride from John O’Groats to Lands End in aid of JDRF (Click here to support the charity and sponsor our ride). We are just about ready to start heading up to John O’Groats in order to start the ride on...

JOGLE Toes 1

Cycling

JOGLE Toes

My toes are ready for Jogle – now to work on the rest of my body which is well and truly overweight at the moment. It’s been a while since I’ve been this fat!

JOGLE Road Atlas 1

Cycling

JOGLE Planning

Phew, the JOGLE planning continues. I’d already made route plans, although a few have been amended slightly so that we can finish at certain places for photo shoots and there is the odd detour just to avoid dual carriageways and larger roads. The current routes are Day 1: John O’Groats to Inverness – 118 miles http://www.strava.com/routes/443052...

New Distance Record 0

Cycling

New Distance Record

My training for JOGLE continues and yesterday I set a new distance record on my bike with a ride through the Snowdonian countryside that ended up being 125 miles. One again it was pretty wet and windy out there most of the time, although it did dry up for a while. From here in Ynyslas...

JOGLE Training – 100 miles of Wet & Windy Welshness 0

Cycling / Wales / Weather

JOGLE Training – 100 miles of Wet & Windy Welshness

With my JOGLE attempt approaching quicker than it should be and time running out, I’ve been trying to get a longer ride in each week just to start preparing my body for so much time in the saddle. Finding the time for such rides isn’t easy though and so far I’ve only managed 4 such rides. The...

JOGLE 2

Cycling

JOGLE – Cycling from John O’Groats to Lands End

Those of you who have been being attentive will know that my next challenge is ‘JOGLE’, which is an acronym for John O’Groats to Lands Ends. Yes, starting at the end of the month I will be attempting to cycle from John O’Groats to Lands End in order to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research...

New Training Schedule 1

Fitness / Triathlon

New Training Schedule

I’ve been lucky enough to have Pete Jenkins writing a training schedule for me each month over the past couple of years. It’s nice to have and I tend to follow such a plan if someone else has written it. For a start I don’t have to spend time coming up with a plan myself...

Kitz Running 1

Geocaching / Lifestyle / Nature / Running / Travel

Kitzbuhel Day 5 – Covering some Ground

Day 5 of my trip to Kitzbuhel and with my bike in transit back to Wales I’d have to rely on my feet for entertainment and transport today. I was up early, 3am to be exact so went for a nice early morning run at around 5am. Running Kitzbuhel There are loads of really well-marked...