Easing of Lockdown Week 19, 31st July 2020
We’re often accused of being the snowflake generation. Well, maybe not my generation, more the millennials who are my children’s cohort. We’ve not really seen war and pestilence in our lifetimes, and you might have expected such a so-called soft generation to have been somewhat broadsided by this wretched Covid thing. I actually think we’re
Easing of Lockdown Week 18, 24th July 2020
I shouldn’t be surprised I suppose, I’ve been riding bikes long enough. How is it possible that something as simple as a ride to the coast and back can produce such an overwhelming sense of wellbeing? That group thing, albeit sensibly small and distanced, a road trip, a cafe, some comic interaction with locals, including the
Easing of Lockdown Week 17, 17th July 2020
Let’s talk about kit. Rifling through my cycling drawer a few months back, I found my old triathlon ‘unitard’. A skin-tight, one-piece lycra suit that was designed for swim, bike, run. It’s tempting to say that as a 30-something I was whip-thin with washboard stomach and lantern-jaw, but sadly even then I looked more like
Easing of Lockdown Week 16, 10th July 2020
Quite early on in the pandemic, when we were deep in lockdown, a BBC news reporter door-stepped an elderly gent. His only human contact was with a charity delivering food for him. ‘It’s just so nice to see someone’ he said. My equivalent is the Amazon delivery guy. Though he’s not my only pal, I
Easing of Lockdown Week 15, 5th July 2020
Seemed to go alright didn’t it? Fancy giving it another go? We’ll run the same routine of staggered start times and different locations, still with a limit of 6 riders per group. I have repeated Niki’s beautifully conceived guidelines from last week at the bottom of this email; please do your utmost to stick to them and