I’ve been very lucky in securing a place on Deloitte RAB (Ride Across Britain) which is a 9 day, 969 mile cycling challenge from Lands end to John o’groats! As this means I now have a charity fundraising target of £900 I thought I’d better make a start on my […]
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Blogging for 10 years!
Just realised I have been blogging for 10 years this month! Including a post about AI that is really pertinent today. Particularly when you think about how elections are have recently been influenced by AI and social media meta data. I’ve mostly moved to using LinkedIn and Medium – write a lot less than when […]
We did it! Oxford to Edinburgh in 3 days by bike!
We raised £2,249.23 for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity which we are really pleased about – thank you so much for your generous support. http://www.justgiving.com/oxed Annoyingly the distance we covered was half a mile short of 400 miles!!! Here is a nice overview map of the route generated by VeloViewer.com
OxEd – Oxford to Edinburgh in 3 days by bike for the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity
So the 2016 charity cycling challenge is Oxford to Edinburgh – 400 miles over 3 days! Originally we (Anthony and I) were going to attempt to do it over 2 but we looked at the route and decided that was too crazy – doing it over 3 days will still be very hard – day 3 […]
Cycling Veloviewer Wheel of Italy Holiday
Really enjoyed riding around Garda earlier in the month. Mata Cycles near Salo are very friendly and helpful and I rented one of their bikes for 3 days.
GPX file for RideLondon route
Here is my .gpx file from last years RideLondon 100 in case anyone wants the route for their Garmin. Can’t guarantee it will be the same as this year but it looks like it will be. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55541537/RL2013.gpx Looking forward to this years event, although the weather forecast looks somewhat interesting at the moment!
#LEJOGON Strava Challenge Achievements
Rather pleased with a few of these achievements gained during LEJOGON:
Visualisation of LEJOGON Route
This is quite a cool way of seeing our route, created by veloviewer.com which does great things with your Strava data.
LEJOGON Photos and Videos
I think photos and videos are pretty much complete now – on the Google Photos Album here: http://bit.ly/lejogon-photos Real mix of crazy ones, landscapes and lovely MAMIL shots!!!
LEJOGON Stats and Braindump
The below are the totals for the whole challenge. For individual days and to see the actual route we took see the Strava rides on the right hand side Strava box). We did deviate a bit as we did the Cheddar Gorge route on Day 2 as it was on safer quieter roads, and on […]