13th June 2016 - Donnacha has some Monday Motivation

BUSY MONDAY EVENING ON THE ROADS

Donnacha writes....

I had a busy day at work so I got home a little later than planned today. Seeing as I even missed the Ireland game it was tempting to pull the 'its too late and im too tired' card but I did summon up the motivation to hit the road again. I stuck with the same route as it was getting late.

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I met a few more cars this evening than the evening before and in general most are very patient and considerate but one in particular was definitely too close for comfort!! It doesn't stress me too much - I tend to hold my position on the road well, but with the state of some of the roads and pothole dodging I can see why it would put some people off. Here is a flavour of a stretch of my route that has had the potholes FIXED!! But you find now those patch jobs can be pretty bumpy on the saddle too!!

'If you have experienced the same problem as Donnacha has with a car travelling a bit too close for comfort, have a read of this Irish Cycling Campaign "Stayin' Alive at 1.5" that is focused on having a defined space of 1.5 metres between cyclists and motorists sharing the road written into Irish Law "STAYIN' ALIVE AT 1.5"'

I got an early Fathers day gift of an action/activity video camera so I managed to record most of the journey which I will edit and send on as soon as I can so hopefully I can add it to tomorrows diary! I had issues with it staying upright on the handlebars so it needed to come off a few times to readjust it again.

All in all - even though a little slower with fatigue settling in on the uphill route home, I am happy with my evenings efforts. Beats sitting on the couch!! Hopefully for tomorrows journey the camera issues will be resolved and I can concentrate on the cycling!

 

 

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21st June 2014: Maria squeezes in a Cycle Before Il Divo

 Lazy Days can be Biking Days

Maria writes:

Quick post before I'm off to Il Divo for a night out!

I had a nice lazy Saturday morning with the kids; it took a lot of motivation to get me out of the house but finally I decided to move... so I headed off to Blarney with the bikes and roller-skates.

I had to take it very easy as Marisa was struggling to keep-up on the roller skates. (Again I was staying with my lazy theme of the day!). 

In the lovely warm weather, there were a lot of cyclists out and about.

From: wwwpicturespapersfromthepst.blogspot.ie/ From: nationalmediamuseumblog.wordpress.com/

From the Movie: Napoleon Dynamite

Sadly, my Operation Transportation days are nearly up and I'm really going to miss this bike! I don't want to imagine going back to the car full time.

Image on the left is from a spanish blog: http://www.diariosenbicicleta.com/ (the bicycle diaries).

Image on the right is from another spanish website: http://elplanetaciclista.blogspot.ie  My patchy spansih translation ) feel free to correct) is that the caption means: 
"Mechanics of the Bicycle": "The bicycle is a curious vehicle. It's passenger is it's engine."

The benefits of a Bicycle chart was found on a blog called http://www.110pounds.com by a woman who explains how she lost 110 pounds by changing her lifestyle to include things like more cycling!