Tag: Endurance

Favourite Photos of 2017

 in Events, Life, Musings, Photography, Running

TweetOne image for each month. Each image, I feel, defined that month. Jan – Sony a7: Spring in Manchester. [url=https://flic.kr/p/22AB5kZ][img]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4734/39116653711_89001f1d8f_b.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/22AB5kZ]January.jpg[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/13995637@N08/]Greg.May[/url], on Flickr   Feb – Sony a7: Last Wainright for my then heavily pregnant wife. Then lunch in a cave. [url=https://flic.kr/p/21fC1si][img]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4679/38234149045_fbb7afa33e_b.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/21fC1si]February.jpg[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/13995637@N08/]Greg.May[/url], on Flickr   March – Canon AEp: Pulling out the film cameras again. [url=https://flic.kr/p/HDN7yP][img]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4734/27338335079_5e6b4ce714_b.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/HDN7yP]March.jpg[/url] by… Read more →

September in Photos

 in Life, Musings, Photography

TweetLater than planned. But a batch of photos from what was a decent September, the first month in the past five I’ve felt anything like an active human being. Tiny human continues to do tiny human things. I spent a lot, but not enough, time in the Lakes running and racing. It felt good to be out there again. I… Read more →

Tour Divide Commute in film.

 in Cycling, Life, Musings, Tour Divide

TweetI spent most of my Tour Divide training rides along the canal between where I live and Manchester. 2 hours. 43 Kilometers. Each way, twice a day, up and over a climb gaining me 400m each direction. With work, family, and friends, it was the easiest way to combine training and life with too much of an impact. From February… Read more →

8mm

 in Cycling, Life, Musings, Tour Divide

TweetLast year, with local rider and Super8 obsessed friend Giles, we went out and made a film for a competition. A film on film, not digital. A single Super8 cartridge shot with no room for editing. What was shot was what was to be entered, undeveloped, unseen by Giles. It was a fun day, 5 hours to shoot 3.5 minutes… Read more →

2016 Wrap.

 in Life, Musings

TweetOdd year. A year of two distinct halves. Part 1: January through June we’re dominated by the one thing, the Tour Divide. Nothing else mattered. Work, nope. Friends, nope. Family, nope. Home…well yes, the only thing that mattered except training was homelife and future plans. Oddly, this near sole focus had little impact on the rest of my “normal” outside… Read more →

Best Photos of 2016

 in Life, Photography

TweetI took quite a few photos this year. Some good, some bad. From them I’ve had an enjoyable (??) time trying to chose my favourite photo from each month. I failed. Too many stories, moments, actions associated to too many photos to cut down to 12. So I chose 24. One set of twelve for exercise; cycling and running mostly,… Read more →

December ABV Running – Day 1

 in Musings

TweetIt started two years ago. An antithesis to years that had passed when I’d managed to drink every day for the month of December and felt proud of it. Things had been changing, slowly. Life was getting more positive for the first time in months, I’d shifted myself away from old habits. The WEMBO worlds had come and gone, a third place… Read more →

Running Wild.

 in Life, Musings, Running

Tweet Those that know me know that I don’t just ride bikes. Of late, I’ve not been riding bikes much. Something to do with having ridden enough for one year, also moving house and not knowing where most of my kit is at the moment. Running has been as much of a part of my life as riding bikes, I’ve… Read more →

Tour Divide Print Words

 in Cycling, Events, Tour Divide

TweetFirst set of words in print from the Tour Divide this year: http://grit.cx/magarchive/issue-009 – small paywall for digital at £1.50 a month, or £6 for the print issue. I’ve been working with the folks over at Grit.cx since its inception, what feels like many moons ago. I’ve always contributed from a cross perspective, and quite often just ranting about my own ideas… Read more →