Category: Commute
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Emergency lighting
It’s dark now when I get back to Didcot station, and it’s a mile and a half from the station to home. I rather foolishly lost my very expensive (but pretty old) Exposure Joystick front light on the train on Friday. I think it came off the folded Brompton when I threw it on the luggage…
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New Game
I changed jobs in the new year, and that includes a whole new commute. I’m now working in Oxford, so I have to get the train (driving would be madness). That gives me two options for the journeys to and from the stations: bike or run. Each section of the run is around 1.5 miles…
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Yes, I cycled
My preferred method of commuting is by bike. It’s been my preferred method of commuting for a long time now, and I suspect it will be for a long time to come. I enjoy the exercise, I get lots of beautiful sunsets and sunrises, and it’s just so much better than driving I can’t even…
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Fast and slow
I had a busy running week last week. Both Clarkie and I ran the Pheonix 10k on Wednesday night. I did this race last year, on a distinctly different evening. This year it was hot and almost perfectly still. Sadly, with Clarkie running as well there were no photos (or there were, but they are…
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Lazy run
I was feeling a little lazy this morning, so I told myself it was a perfect day for a dawdling run taking photos. What follows is a picture-heavy post! I ignored the first mile, that’s just houses and pavement and stuff. Yawn. This is the part it starts to get interesting. Yup, the oil seed…
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Winter boots
I know it’s not strictly speaking Winter yet, but it’s the time of year I start to prepare for the weather ahead. The wind picks up down here on the coast (well, 2 miles back up a hill), which makes the route I’m using for work rather unpleasant. It’s a pretty typical road, single carriageway,…
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A good day’s riding
Last Friday was a good day for riding. Hot, hardly any wind, but that wasn’t why! On the way into work, I pulled up at the lights in Rottingdean as normal and someone else pulled up along side. I mostly ignore other people, but the guy commented on my bike. I’m riding my Long Haul…
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Trails and tribulations
Rottingdean pond has frozen over completely, which looks quite nice. This shot was taken yesterday morning, as I cycled in. Note the ridge of snow on the road along the sides where the cars haven’t been. It wasn’t a problem in Rottingdean, but when I hit busier roads it started to be. Today I thought…
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Kind of cold
It is unusually cold for December. Which sounds odd, but it doesn’t normally get really cold until around February. But we have snow! Normally if we get snow in December it’s about a centimetre, and it’s melted by 8am. Not so much today. Those are our steps this morning. We’re staying put I think. There…
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Flushed
A couple of Saturday’s ago, we were heading off to a friend’s wedding up in Derbyshire. The morning was a bit of a rush, we’d slept in a bit, you know. And the toilet stopped flushing. Not ideal. Not by a long chalk. It made us slightly late. Not as late as the traffic on…
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Nights like this
Nights like this I am very glad to make it home. Nights like this the undercliff walk is a dark and lonely place caught between sea, rain and wind. Nights like this justify me spending over £100 on a front bike light. Nights like this make me grateful for my very waterproof jacket. Nights like…
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Please release me
One thing I’m kind of not happy with about my current job is the bike parking. Or rather the lack of bike parking. The building has a car park and a tiny amount of bike parking, but apparently that’s for the law firm that own the building rather than those that rent space in it.…