Another year; another review. 2025 continued my fitness consolidation with a combination of real-world activities when we were on Fuerteventura and virtual activities in the UK (and Thailand where I didn’t venture outside the hotel to exercise), using the home gym equipment in the Pain Cave. Since early November 2023, we’ve been back full time […]

Another year; another review. 2025 continued my fitness consolidation with a combination of real-world activities when we were on Fuerteventura and virtual activities in the UK (and Thailand where I didn't venture outside the hotel to exercise), using the home gym equipment in the Pain Cave. Since early November 2023, we've been back full time in the UK - other than holidays, of course - so the Pain Cave is visited pretty much every day first thing before work.

Happy New Year! It’s the 1st of January 2026, but here are December 2025’s statistics, starting with a week with no real exercise, after I had the steroid injection into my knee to see if that will temporarily help with the everyday crippling pain, rather than moving straight to my recommended knee replacement surgery to […]

Happy New Year! It's the 1st of January 2026, but here are December 2025's statistics, starting with a week with no real exercise, after I had the steroid injection into my knee to see if that will temporarily help with the everyday crippling pain, rather than moving straight to my recommended knee replacement surgery to sort out my lack of cartilage and arthritis in that knee.  

What better to do on a cold December’s evening than go for a ride around London to look at all the Christmas lights and end up back at the Bike Shed for a fabulous dinner (I had the sausage and mash and she had the steak)? So we took off the panniers to allow for … Continue reading Bike Shed Moto Co London Christmas Lights Ride 2025

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We had another fortnight’s holiday in Corralejo, Fuerteventura, so I again hired a Specialized Allez Elite from Easy Riders Bike Centre and went for a morning ride each day from the villas at Bahiazul along the FV-1 to Tamaragua and/or the FV-104 between the shore and the famous dunes. In total, I managed 300km whilst […]

It’s the 1st of December and it’s the start of a strange week: last Friday, I had a painful injection into my knee to see if that will temporarily help with the everyday crippling pain, rather than moving straight to my recommended knee replacement surgery to sort out my lack of cartilage and arthritis in […]

We had another fortnight's holiday in Corralejo, Fuerteventura, so I again hired a Specialized Allez Elite from Easy Riders Bike Centre and went for a morning ride each day from the villas at Bahiazul along the FV-1 to Tamaragua and/or the FV-104 between the shore and the famous dunes. In total, I managed 300km whilst we were there (plus some walking/hiking).

It's the 1st of December and it's the start of a strange week: last Friday, I had a painful injection into my knee to see if that will temporarily help with the everyday crippling pain, rather than moving straight to my recommended knee replacement surgery to sort out my lack of cartilage and arthritis in that knee.  The consultant then told me, "no swimming and no saunas" - due to the infection risk - and "no running at all, ever, no cycling for a week, and drastically reduce my step count", all for the first week of December.

Many people - OK, nobody, actually - ask me what my longest ride was, either in real life or virtually. The answer is 162.89km virtually, and I rode this back on 25 February 2024 on FulGaz.  They say: "Are you up for the challenge? Located in the stunning California Alps, the "Tour of the California Alps – Death Ride®" course crosses three Sierra Nevada mountain passes, for a total of six highly categorized climbs.

Much later than usual as I forgot to do the stats and only realised when we were on holiday last week, so my apologies. October was much of the same as September whilst trying to clear the decks at work for our imminent holidays. So I was doing more virtual rides on ROUVY, and I’ve […]

Much later than usual as I forgot to do the stats and only realised when we were on holiday last week, so my apologies. October was much of the same as September whilst trying to clear the decks at work for our imminent holidays. So I was doing more virtual rides on ROUVY, and I've even enjoyed a Group Ride with Wout van Aert (from the pro cycling…