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Hello! It has been a while since I last updated Aidan’s where abouts, so here goes. I spoke to him Friday morning (5:30) UK time as he had just reached Anvik. He was stopping there that night whilst the Petervary’s went onto Grayling. He sounded good and commented on the fact that he is looking . . . → Read More: Aidan’s on the Yukon This is a bit of an unchecked brain dump. Apologies for any incoherence. And thanks to Emily, Gillian, Mum + Dad, and everyone else for your support. It’s great! — Well, I made it to McGrath in just under 5 days. It’s been a much more steady effort than last time I was out here. . . . → Read More: McGrath Hi all. So at the moment communications from the check points back to Kathi (one of the organisers of the race) is a bit slow, probably due to the sheer amount of hungry bikers mouths to feed as and when they come in, not leaving a lot of time for telephone calls. I did leave . . . → Read More: He’s somewhere out there! So February 27th 2011 at 2pm Aidan started the Iditarod race in Alaska. Aidan is covering a distance of 1100miles from Anchorage to Nome. Two years ago he did the shorter version, 350 miles to McGrath. Now he is in for the whole hog. So far he is doing really well, in 48 hours he . . . → Read More: Well here he goes again! I’m well into preparations for Nome now: reading all kinds of arctic-ey stuff, watching all kinds of arctic-ey stuff, sanding and painting over the rust on my Pugsley, riding hard, all those things. And I’ve just finished one rather useful task that I’m happy to share: Bill and Kathi publish a list of Lat/Long co-ordinates . . . → Read More: Iditarod Waypoints Well that didn’t go quite the way I expected. This will be a tale in two parts: the story; then the geeky bike stuff. The Story The epic began with a mammoth drive from London to Glasgow. Start time: after work. Objective: get there before midnight! We had booked into the cheapest hotel I could . . . → Read More: WHW – Postmortem My West Highland Way attempt got delayed, but it’s now all systems go! It took an extra week to get over being ill at the start of January, but that may have worked out for the best. Last weekend was the Strathpuffer 24 hour solo race close to the northern end of the WHW. My . . . → Read More: WHW – Preparations Since I’m “down with the kids”, I get to hear all the current playground phrases. In North-West London, at least, “Sick!” is a favourite. e.g. Upon seeing a road bike, “That’s one of those bikes like in the Olympics… Sick!” or when seeing SPD pedals, “Look at those tiny pedals… Sick!”.
I’ve . . . → Read More: Sick I went out riding in the snow last night. I rode a trail that we know as “bastard corners”. It’s a good one to see how well you’re riding as there is a whole sequence of open rooty corners. Some with adverse camber, some of which tighten. Up until that trail, I’d been riding pretty . . . → Read More: Small Margins Here’s something I wrote back in May about The Sarn Helen Trail in Wales. Not to be confused with some other Welsh C2C routes, I just kinda made this one up as training for the Tour Divide. I kept this story back as I had sent it to a magazine, but after a bit of . . . → Read More: An Older One – The Sarn Helen Trail |
