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| To Exeter and back | 2012-08-06 | A ride along the estuary and canal into Exeter and back
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| Car buying bike ride - part 2 | 2013-04-22 | Back into Exeter to buy a replacement car after our Citroen Xsara estate died after just 77k miles.
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| Exeter and back | 2013-08-17 | Into Exeter and back round Exminster gold course
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| Ride to Exeter Quay and back | 2013-10-07 | Light winds on the way to the Quay and a head wind on the way back. New walking boots at Framers Friend. Wearing out the soles of walking boots every years must mean we are walking the dog too much.
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| A short ride from Exeter | 2020-03-23 | Back from Exeter and via Dawlish Warren
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-11-18 | Into Exeter with Liz. Tacked on a couple fo extra miles to get me to under 100 miles to annual target.
Liz going super speedy to break the 10mph barrier for the first time in a few weeks!
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-06-08 | Into Exeter with Liz. A bit windy so a bit slow.
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| Bike ride to Exeter | 2016-10-18 | Start of a possible attempt to maybe get a little fitter.
A twenty mile round trip ride into Exeter (Mill on the Exe area) and back again.
The final climb back up Cockwood Hill nearly killed me.
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Exeter
Exeter Estuary
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| Another twenty miles | 2016-10-19 | Another ride into Exeter and back.
Hard work!
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| Another twenty miles | 2016-10-20 | Third day in a row of cycling into Exeter and back.
Every day is getting harder - surely that's not right!
A couple of "reading breaks" on the way back.
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Exeter
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| Hundred miles this week | 2016-10-22 | The fifth 20 miler of the week. I'd expected this to be a gentle cycle ride with Liz but she was all gung ho! Way faster than I was expecting and I wasn't allowed my usual stopping places to have a breather.
This was the fifth day out in a row doing 20 miles meaning that the target of doing 100 miles in a week was reached with 2 days to spare.Day off tomorrow!
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Exeter
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| Exeter bike ride | 2020-03-22 | Into Exeter - just past St Davids
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-06-03 | Ride in to Exeter with Liz to buy a new buoyancy aid.
Coffee at Mrs Lutzys.
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| Exeter and back | 2016-11-26 | Another twenty miler into Exeter and back.
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| Exeter and back | 2016-11-27 | Liz's first time back on the bike at the tail end of a two week lurgy.
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| Exeter and back | 2016-11-28 | A windy ride into Exeter and back. Luckily the wind (F5 to F7 on Met Office forecast) was mostly on the side,
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Exeter
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| Exeter and back | 2016-12-03 | A windy ride into Exeter and back, Liz still in post lurgie mode.
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| Exeter and back | 2016-12-05 | To the Mill On The Exe and back
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| Into Exeter | 2020-07-06 | Toolstation shopping for the next DIY project.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-10-27 | Into Exeter with Liz
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-05-11 | Into Exeter with Liz. Stopped at Lutzys and SYC on the way back.
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| Exeter and back | 2017-01-21 | Cold days cycle ride into Exeter and back. Just above freezing. Very gentle ride with Liz - reflected in the somewhat slower than usual average speed.
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| Exeter and back | 2017-02-06 | Super fast on the way out. A bit slower on the way back. The last five miles were into a fairly strong headwind right on the nose. That and pouring rain and the cold put a slight damper on the last quarter!
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| Exeter and back - quite fast | 2017-02-18 | A very fast (for me) ride out to Exeter (averaged 16.2mph - would have been faster but for the hordes of pedestrians on the last couple of miles) and a somewhat slower ride back into quite a strong head wind. Stopped briefly at SYC to watch the dinghy instructor pre-prep course.
Fastest overall average I've managed on the 20 miles "Exeter and back" ride. First time averaging over 14 mph!
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| Exeter and back | 2017-02-21 | Another "fast for me" ride into Exeter and back. Fast - as in more than 14mph average. There was a sod of a headwind on the way out so made up time on the way back (although I could swear that the wind changed direction just as a I started back from Exeter).
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Exeter
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| Exeter and back | 2017-02-27 | A gentle ride into Exeter and back. A mixture of sunshine and showers but at least the wind was from the side.
Most impressively, Liz managed to come off her bike but still remain standing at the end of the manoeuvre!
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Exeter
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| Liz post work cycle ride | 2020-03-11 | Into work and then on to Exeter for Liz.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-05-05 | Into Exeter with Liz who didn't appreciate either the wind against us both ways or Mrs Lutzy's being full again.
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| Exeter and back | 2017-04-16 | Into Exeter and back. A fair old head wind on the way out but speedy on the way back. Not a bad average for me given that I'm still not fully over the lurgie I've had for the last couple of weeks.
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| Exeter and back | 2017-04-17 | In to Exeter on the Marin bike. Stopped at SYC on the way back to watch Liz and Nigel on the safety boat.
About the same strength and direction wind as yesterday so it seems that the posh bike makes me about 1.5 mph faster.
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Exeter
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| Exeter and back | 2017-04-24 | A fairly gentle ride into Exeter and back. Had the Marin loaded up with a pannier and computer bag as though I was going to cycle into work. After a bit of adjustment it all seemed to work ok.
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-05-12 | Into and Exeter and back to work.
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-05-23 | Into work and back. Not much wind which made it a bit easier.
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| Exeter shopping | 2019-10-19 | Into Exeter with Liz for a bit of shopping
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| Exminster and Exeter | 2021-04-21 | Into Exminster to meet up with Liz after work and then onto the opticians in Exeter to get some glasses mended. First visit to the big city since the plague struck!
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-06-30 | Windy both ways but wind somewhat in favour on the way home
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| Bike ride into Exeter | 2017-07-02 | A leisurely bike ride into Exeter with Liz. Liz's first time on the bike in a while. Combine that with hundreds of ISCA Academy 10 year olds vying to see which one of them could throw themselves under Liz's front wheel first, and the average speed makes more sense. Stopped at SYC on the way back.
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-07-06 | Fast for me - especially as it was on the old bike and with two heavy panniers.
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-07-14 | Would have been a bit faster if a) an idiot car driver hadn't driven slowly down the cycle path to the Turf Locks and then cut me up at the Turf and b) my chain hadn't come off the front cog just past the Turf.
On the plus side, Little Mix weren't sound checking as I went past the concert ground at Powderham.
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Exeter
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| Exeter and back | 2017-07-16 | It was going to be a longer ride round to Lympstone but it started raining and the wind got up.
Still - first time ever with an average speed of over 15 mph! Would have been faster except for having to slow down so often for huge numbers of kids and walkers. They are also digging up the cycle path at Exe Bridges which meant walking round various diversions and not getting the full 20 miles in.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2020-02-27 | Into Exeter after Liz finished work. Really quite windy on the way in. River somewhat flooded.
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| Back from Exeter | 2019-10-12 | Back from Exeter. Not quite so fast on the way back as a little bit of a headwind got up while I was snacking at Mrs Lutzys.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-12-07 | Into Exeter with Liz
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| Exeter and back | 2017-08-26 | Into Exeter and back. On the posh bike but far too many blind and deaf walkers, kids and doggies on the paths to be able to go too fast.
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-09-06 | Work cycle ride
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| Exeter and back | 2017-10-07 | Too windy for us to want to go sailing (F4 gusting F6) so Liz and I cycled into Exeter and back.
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| Cycling into Brian | 2017-10-21 | In fact, Storm Brian was mostly a westerly and Liz and I were cycling mostly north / south so apart from the occasional big gust, it didn't make too much of a difference.
The coffee and custard tart at Lutzys was very good!
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| Lutzys cafe | 2017-11-11 | A cycle ride into Exeter and back with Liz. Stopped at Lutzy's Cafe for the rather nice custard tarts and some coffee.
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| Into Exeter | 2020-02-26 | Into Exeter and Liz's work. Windy on the way in. Coffee at Mrs Lutzys.
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| Flooded cycle ride | 2019-11-24 | Into Exeter after a lot of rain. Road alongside the Estuary was flooded. Liz got wet feet!
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| Exeter bike ride | 2021-11-20 | To the Mill On The Exe and Screwfix. Lots of utter pillocks on the cycle path.
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| Marsh Barton | 2017-12-22 | Into Marsh Barton and Bakers Yard for some army Surplus and Brooks Basics shopping. Then on to Lutzy's for a coffee and pastry on the Quay.
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| Exeter and back | 2017-12-23 | Into Exeter and back with Liz
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| Windy Exeter ride | 2018-01-01 | A very breezy ride into Exeter with Liz. Hard work on the way out - easier on the way back. Exe was flooding so couldn't get all the way to the Mill on the Exe. Stopped at Lutzy's for coffee.
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| Into Exeter | 2018-01-06 | Into the centre of Exeter to pick up Liz's phone after a repair because it got dunked in "a bowl of water". Excellent service from IT Mobile in Gandy Street.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-01-20 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Picked up some free tide timetables from the very nice people at Bridger Marine on the Quay.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2020-09-06 | To buy stuff that wasn't there
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| Bike shop ride | 2019-03-28 | Into Exeter to pick up some spare inner tubes and repair kits after yesterday's puncture shenanigans.
Garmin Connect made the moving average for this trip as 14.8 mph - prefer their calculations!
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| Exeter and back | 2018-03-31 | Into a strong headwind on the way into Exeter but that made it almost a pleasure on the way home.
Lots of bank holiday numpties on the cycle path with their badly behaved kids and dogs.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-04-07 | Into Exeter and back with Liz
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| Exeter and back | 2018-04-23 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Stopped for a coffee at Lutzy's.
Watched the dredger deepening the channel out from the Turf Locks.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-05-12 | Into Exeter and back with Liz.
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| Exeter | 2018-05-18 | Into Exeter and back with Liz.
Coffee at Lutzys and then a fairly strong breeze to contend with on the way back.
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| Starcross Steamer Bike Ride | 2020-01-19 | Into Exeter for a spot of shopping and then a while at Starcross Yacht Club watching the annual Starcross Steamer dinghy race. The winds were better for cycling that for sailing.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-08-31 | Into Exeter looking at double glazing (shut - would be dull) and kayaks (much more interesting).
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| Another puncture | 2019-03-27 | Met up with Liz after she'd finished work and cycled into Exeter for lunch at Mrs Lutzys.
Cycling back, I got a puncture. It was bad enough that the "snake eyes" double puncture highlighted that I'd been under inflating the tyres. What was much worse was that while I'd managed to bring the right sized spare tube for the new bike, I'd neglected to bring one with the right valve type to fit through the wheel. Trying to use a 20 year old puncture repair kit didn't work too well either.
So Liz cycled on home and came back to rescue me from the canal car park by the Swans Nest for the second time in about 4 months.
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| Kayak shopping | 2018-07-22 | Into Exeter with Liz to AWS Watersports looking for a sit on top kayak to complement our canadian canoe! Hot.
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| Lidls and SYC | 2018-08-05 | A trip into town with Liz to pick up some cheap tat at Lidls and then stopped for a coffee at SYC where the weather was perfect for the Kathleen/Buxton Belle Trophy races. But that did mean we were cycling back into a stiff sea breeze.
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| To the canoe shop | 2018-08-20 | Into Exeter to buy a replacement kick stand for the canoe trolley
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| Breakfast at Lutzys | 2018-09-29 | Into Exeter with Liz for breakfast at Lutzys on the Quay.
Quite slow as it was Liz's first time back on the bike for about 6 weeks.
Replacement saddle and grips on my bike were fine.
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| Exeter bike ride | 2022-08-15 | Shopping trip.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2020-01-18 | Into Exeter with Liz. Liz's first cycle ride since a Xmas lurgie.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-08-12 | Into Exeter and Dawlish with Liz for some shopping. Headwind on the way out.
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| Liz ride to work and Exeter | 2019-03-27 | Liz cycle ride to work and then into Exeter with Aidan for lunch at Mrs Lutzys.
Aidan had a puncture on the way home and had brought the right sized spare tyre but with the wrong sized valve. Doh. Liz cycled home and then rescued Aidan in the car.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-11-24 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. First bike ride after a couple of weeks in India for work. From 30 degrees plus each day down to a couple of degrees and rain was a bit of a shock to the system.
Stopped at Screwfix for house bits and Lutzys for coffee and a cup cake.
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| Into Exeter and back | 2018-12-01 | A ride with Liz into Exeter for coffee and tarts at Lutzy's.
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| Ride into Exeter | 2018-12-10 | A cycle ride with Liz into Exeter.
Mrs Lutzy's was closed so we had another cool coffee on the other side of the quay.
On posh bike and no wind so an easy ride.
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| Exeter and back | 2018-12-16 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Mrs Lutzys was shut so we stopped at SYC for a coffee on the way back. Rainy!
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| Exeter bike ride | 2022-08-11 | M&S
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| Redundancy ride | 2020-01-10 | Into work employed. Back from work redundant - well at least in 12 days time!
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-08-04 | Into Exeter and back with Liz.
Coffee at Mrs Lutzys.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-03-26 | Into Exeter for the last bits and pieces for Liz's pallet based compost bins project.
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| Into Exeter | 2019-01-25 | Into Exeter and the Bike Shed to get the handlebars on the Marin changed. However, a change of plan when discussing options at the shop meant leaving the bike there and catching the train back.
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| Into Exeter | 2019-01-26 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Coffee and a custard tart at Lutzy's (after her Xmas / New Year break).
Started to get windy on the way back.
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| Into Exeter and back | 2019-01-28 | Into Exeter with Liz. Wind assisted on the way back so a few short "sprints".
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| New push bike | 2019-02-02 | Bought a Triban RC520 road bike and this was the first time out on it.
Went with Liz to Dawlish Warren and then into a strong head wind into Exeter for coffee and a custard tart at Mrs Lutzys
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| Exeter bike ride | 2022-07-15 | A little bit of Exeter shopping
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| Into Exeter | 2019-12-31 | Into Exeter with Liz for a spot of shopping
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| Exeter and back | 2019-07-27 | Into Exeter and back with Liz
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| Exeter and SYC | 2019-12-01 | Into Exeter and then back via SYC for the AGM, Windy.
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| Exeter and back | 2019-02-24 | After more fettling with the new Triban, into Exeter and back with Liz for coffee and choccie and Mrs Lutzy's.
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| Lizzies 100 mile week - Part 1 | 2019-03-02 | Aidan goes abroad for work amd Lizzie does a 100 miles on the bike in one week!
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| Lizzies 100 mile week - Part 2 | 2019-03-04 | Aidan goes abroad for work and Lizzie does a 100 miles on the bike in one week!
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| Lizzies 100 mile week - Part 3 | 2019-03-05 | Aidan goes abroad for work and Lizzie does a 100 miles on the bike in one week!
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| Exeter bike ride | 2021-11-29 | Into Exeter. Coffee at the safe water mark.
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