Easy Weardale Cycling
An easy 6 mile bicycle ride from Frosterley to Stanhope stepping stones and back… or 3 miles if you ‘pedal and puff’ when the train is running.
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Category: Journal
Circular Weardale Cycle Route
On a bicycle I develop a respect for hills and cleughs of this dale. As I climb steep roads, my body converts cake into Vertical Ascent in Metres… wordlessly handing the biomathematics my brain can’t.
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The Last Suzuki SV650
The Suzuki SV650 is dead, long live the Suzuki SV650.
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Elephant trees
People with ME/CFS experience different degrees of capacity depending on how their pacing is working. A short moorland walk will mean a long period of recuperation.
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Church in the wild
What if our bodies could worship God in a language God wrote: the language of lactic acid and the digestion of cake
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The parable of the good taxi driver
Addressing christian nationalism’s failure to understand “who is my neighbour”, a cyclist’s parable.
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What are you, O mortal…
I was invited to speak about ‘light’, at an interfaith event in Huddersfield.
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Drum and Bass On A Bike
We took the streets back with a rolling road block of skaters, scooters, joggers and cyclists: all ages moving to the rhythm of Dom Whiting’s Drum & Bass.
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Blue Danube ride
Cycling over the hills from Austria to Bavaria and the start of a German river adventure, riding up the Danube.
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Bohemia by bicycle
Today’s adventure was to seek out Český Krumlov, then Lipno Reservoir, and cross to Ulrichsberg in Austria.
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