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Ten Tips For Dealing With Injury

Friday, March 16th, 2012

  Was she asking for something more profound when she commented that my musings on this website were getting predicatably negative ? Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe Sigmund Freud might say – or – shut your pie hole as they say parts of Glencoe road. I’m sorry, I set out to write a [...]

Dear David

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Dear Maccers, Thanks for that 4 hour spin around Loch Katrine – probably the best cycle route in all the Shire. I am currently on route to South Africa by way of Carrick-on-Shannon – I didn’t get to see you before I left but make sure to look after the House.

10 Years in the Shire . . .

Friday, September 11th, 2009

 10 years ago I drove into to Stirling with my Dad attempting to pronounce the road signs in a bad Scottish accent. I wasn’t laughing. I knew no one. I was totally petrified. During those 10 years there were good times, bad times and great times.

gavIN USA – Day 1

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Day 1 It would have been easier for me to get into Heaven past St Peter than onto the Continental flight at Edinburgh Airport. There was a lot of questions and peeping at me from around a curtain (!?). When asked for the 3rd time in the space of 40mins “Has anyone given you anything [...]

Weekend Results

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Fraser Cartmell hit the podium in UK 70.3 – there are rumours of a ‘code brown’ which I am sure will be cleaned up in his race report in the coming days. Other triathlon team warriors were in action too

Training Balance

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that I am now a ’2 sheet’ Origami Expert. The bad news