I took my Giant Bowery, currently singlespeed, up Howth Head Sunday evening. I was a bit concerned with how the Bowery would go on the climb, but I want to get a couple of goes up Howth in before I turn it fixed gear (because I love high speed descents). Here’s the route map thanks [...]
Brief update with details from my cycling & camping tour to Loire Valley in August 08 940km total 15 days cycling 63km/day average ~40kg gear on bike
I intended to cycle to Galway last Thursday, the route was the canal towpaths out of town as far as Moyvalley bridge, then along the old N4 to Galway, hopefully getting as far as Ballinasloe, Oranmore or even Galway city. Instead of starting at 6am like I intended, I actually started at 8am, which really [...]
I had a fantastic weekend in Neuchatel for the annual Rugby Sevens tournament, just a quick note to say thanks to Le Sept Arverne, a bunch of really cool guys who I played with all weekend. Chicken Run!!
I recently wrote about fitness and work life and running a business. I also made a promise over on my search engine marketing blog that during the month of September I’m going to post one blogging tip per day as a “penance” for my lack of posting over there recently. I’ve noticed a dramatic increase [...]
Interesting one for people looking for cycling routes in Dublin – a guy, obviously called Dick O’Brien, has listed about 30 cycling routes from Dublin city centre. They’re listed on RouteSlip.com and include route maps, distance and amount of climbing: Dick O’Brien’s cycling routes Fair play to you for the work in adding all those!