Running on Empty
This week was an unplanned experiment to see how I can cope with about 60% of my normal sleep. Official results are still pending but I can say for sure, it wasn’t pretty! I started the week with about 5 hours sleep, getting up at 4:30am on Monday morning to leave the boys to Belfast…
This Week It Has Mostly Been Raining
While the whole of Ireland is under a hosepipe ban and the South and East of the country are concerned about soil moisture contents and crop growth, it’s Summer as usual in Donegal! It’s warmer and probably drier than during the Winter but for some reason it feels harder to get out when we’ve been…
Faster Than The Speed of Night
I know we say it all the time but this year is flying. It seems like no time at all since my last post which was just over three months ago, or to put it another way, one quarter of the year. It’s been an eventful 3 months for me but it’s taken me a…
What Next?
The second of four Audax 200 routes I’d picked for this year is Round The Lough 200 in Larne. It’s on April 18th and ticks the Ulster box for the 4 Provinces Challenge. However, I have a problem. First of all it’s only 4 weeks after my trip to Ballinasloe. Secondly, we have a work…
One For The Road 200
TL;DR I went, it was much harder than I expected but I finished! I slept better than I expected in the B&B and woke with the alarm at 6am. Plenty of time for a shower to waken me up before a very decent breakfast. The B&B host had left me out an early continental breakfast…
T-12 and Counting…
Well that month went in quick! I wrote this post commenting on how quickly my first 200km Audax event was approaching and suddenly I’m sitting in a B&B in Co. Offaly with just over 12 hours to go until the start! In usual fashion my plans to increase training and get one more longer ride…
Reality Bites!
Back at the start of the year I decided I’d give Audax a real go this year on the back of my success with the RRTY 100 Challenge at that stage. I identified 4 reasonably flat and therefore easy(!) routes that would have the additional advantage of qualifying me for the 4 Provinces Challenge for…
Halfway Through Already
February 1st is traditionally known in the Celtic calendar as Imbolc and the first day of Spring. In the Christian calendar it is also St. Brigid’s Day. For the last few years it’s also been a Bank Holiday and therefore a long weekend. Over the last few days there has been a definite feeling of…
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