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Portavadie to Dunoon Cycle route

Holy shit, completed the cycle from Crinan/Lochgilphead to Glasgow last Friday in even worse weather conditions than the Fort William to Crinan cycle I did last week, there was non-stop heavy rain for almost the entire journey. Someone at Glasgow Central even asked if we’d been potholing which should give you some indication of the state we were in.

My computer packed up due to the rain, as did my rear light, so I’ve used the first two legs of the journey that I saved on MapMyRide and used Google Maps to calculate the third and final leg, in all I estimate the total cycle distance to be about 73 miles (117 km).
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Road Sign - Hill: 1 In 8

Fuck me! What a fucking nightmare. I don’t think the conditions could have been much worse for the Fort William to Crinan/Lochgilphead cycle.

The total distance for the route we took was approximately 83 miles, which took around 6 hours despite some good early pace; climbs and weather slowed us up significantly during the second half of the journey.
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Crinan Harbour

So, a freind and I are getting the sleeper train to Scotland on Friday night in order to cycle the 80 mile (130 km) journey from Fort Willam to Crinan on Saturday. I have to say, I am starting to shit myself.
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Tour de France Logo

Been busy working on a new design for the blog, hence the lack of posts, but have been following the Tour de France with great interest over the last few weeks. Congratulations to Bradley Wiggins for finishing fourth, a fine achievement, and to Mark Cavendish for winning six stages on this years tour and narrowly missing out on the green jersey. Well done also to Alberto Contador for winning.

Cycle distance bar graph for June 2009

The stats for June are in, 700.62 km (435.35 miles) in total.  With last months total (739 km) that’s a total of 1440 km, by road that is enough to get to Santander in northern Spain where I was on holiday last week.  Also enough to get to Halmsted in Sweden or Verona in Italy.

London to Brighton Time

Participated in the London to Brighton British Heart Foundation charity cycle ride at the weekend (22/06/09). Clocked a time of 3 hours 22 minutes and 28 seconds. It’s around 87km (54 miles in old money) and I was pretty pleased with the time, especially as I snapped my chain en route.

Cycle distance chart for May 2009

So, I decided to geek out and catalogue my weekly cycling distances, the stats for May are in, 739 kilometres (459 miles) in total. I’m cycling from London to Brighton for the British Heart Foundation at the end of the month, which is why I managed 247 km in one week, a bit of training for the event. It’s a a worthy cause which I participated in last year, raising £285.

Just to make my statistical analysis even geekier I worked out that 739 km was enough to cycle from my house to either Cairndow (Scotland), Mainz (Germany) or Strasbourg (France).