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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 Estuary
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| First bike ride of 2019 | 2019-01-06 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. First bike ride of 2019 and the first bike ride after an unpleasant Xmas lurgie.
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Exeter
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| Exeter and back | 2018-11-03 | Into Exeter for breakfast at Lutzys. Strong headwind on the way home.
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Exeter
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| Exeter bike ride | 2019-03-31 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Bit of a head wind on the way in. Angry caravanner on the way back.
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Exeter
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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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| 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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Exeter
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| Xmas day bike ride | 2016-12-25 | A ride with Liz into Exeter and back. Lots of kids on the cycle path with shiny new Xmas present bikes.
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Exeter
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| Into Exeter | 2020-02-12 | Into Exeter with Liz via Exminster (as the bumpy bit of the cycle path is being repaired - hurrah!).
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Exeter
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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
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| Lizzies 100 mile week - Part 4 | 2019-03-07 | Aidan goes abroad for work and Lizzie does a 100 miles on the bike in one week!
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Exeter
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| Exeter and back | 2018-10-27 | Into Exeter with Liz for coffee at Lutzys.
Windy on the way out - about a F5 (enough get the dinghy cruise planned for the afternoon to be cancelled)
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Exeter
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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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Exeter
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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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Exeter
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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
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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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| Another twenty miler | 2016-11-20 | Well almost a twenty miler. The 2 inch rain fall in Exeter meant that the last part of the cycle path ride was under water.
Hard work cycling in to the head wind that was the remnants of Storm Angus. Disappointing that the winds dropped away for the homeward leg - as shown by the drifting boats when stopping briefly at SYC.
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Exeter
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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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Exeter
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-03-17 | Into Exeter with Liz. First day in a week that the winds weren't above force 6! Still windy though so hard work on the way in and Mrs Lutzy's was full! Stopped at Dawlish Warren bike cafe to get the gears on Liz's bike "fine tuned". Met up with Dr John.
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Exeter
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| Breakfast at Lutzys | 2018-10-20 | Into Exeter with Liz for breakfast at Lutzys
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Exeter
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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
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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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Exeter
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| Exeter and back | 2017-03-10 | Into Exeter and back. Average speed not too bad given that there was quite a strong headwind on the way back.
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Exeter
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| Xmas eve ride | 2016-12-24 | Into Exeter and back. First solo ride for a couple of week and the slightly higher speeds made it hard work!
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Exeter
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| Exeter bike ride | 2021-11-29 | Into Exeter. Coffee at the safe water mark.
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Exeter
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-06-17 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Not our fastest!
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Exeter
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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
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| Into Exeter | 2019-12-31 | Into Exeter with Liz for a spot of shopping
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Exeter
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2020-10-01 | Into Exeter to buy more DIY materials for our house - that a professional will have to remove / repair at some point in the future.
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Exeter
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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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Exeter
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| Into Exeter | 2019-10-12 | No wind, no bags - so quite a fast time for me. Last 1/4 mile of normal ride was flooded by the Exe.
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Exeter
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| Exeter and back | 2018-02-16 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Straight into a headwind on the way home.
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Exeter
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-12-29 | Into Exeter with Liz. Coffee and a custard pie at Mrs Lutzys.
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Exeter
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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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| Redundancy ride | 2020-01-10 | Into work employed. Back from work redundant - well at least in 12 days time!
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Exeter
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| Post work DIY shopping | 2020-10-22 | Into Exeter for some paint and stuff.
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Exeter
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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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Exeter
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-06-27 | Into Exeter and back. A bit of a head wind on the way back.
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Exeter
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| Exeter for coffee | 2018-12-23 | Into Exeter with Liz for a coffee. As Mrs Lutzy's is now closed for a month, it was to Bar Venezia and the most ridicously chocolatty chocolate fudge cacke slice.
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Exeter
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| Exeter and back | 2019-01-12 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Coffee at Bar Venezia and then some birthday shopping at the quay cellars.
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Exeter
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| Exeter and back | 2016-11-26 | Another twenty miler into Exeter and back.
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Exeter
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| Exeter and back | 2018-04-07 | Into Exeter and back with Liz
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Exeter
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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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Exeter
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2020-02-19 | Into Exeter after the floods
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Exeter
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| Exeter and back | 2013-08-17 | Into Exeter and back round Exminster gold course
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Exeter
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| Windy cycle ride | 2020-03-21 | Into Exeter on a very windy day - probably force seven from the south east.
12.3mph on the way in to Exeter and 8.9mph on the way back.
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Exeter
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-04-20 | Into Exeter on a hot Easter Saturday.
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Exeter
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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
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| Exeter and back | 2018-02-12 | A gentle cycle ride into Exeter with Liz.
First time on the bike in nearly two weeks due to a winter lurgie that refused to go. Still not 100% right yet!
Lutzys was still closed.
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Exeter
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| Another twenty miles | 2016-10-19 | Another ride into Exeter and back.
Hard work!
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Exeter
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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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Exeter Quay
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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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Exeter
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| Exeter shopping | 2019-10-19 | Into Exeter with Liz for a bit of shopping
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Exeter
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| A short ride from Exeter | 2020-03-23 | Back from Exeter and via Dawlish Warren
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Exeter
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| Exeter and back | 2016-12-05 | To the Mill On The Exe and back
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Exeter
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| Exeter bike ride | 2021-10-13 | Coffee and nibbles at Mrs Lutzys for first time in a long while.
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Exeter
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-06-10 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Coffee and a choccie brownie and Mrs Lutzys.
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Exeter
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| Exeter and back | 2019-02-23 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Mrs Lutzy's too busy to get a table for coffee!!!
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Exeter
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| Coffee at Lutzys | 2018-07-16 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Sea breeze helped on the way in and died on the way back. Liz goes super speedy just past the Turf (23 mph along the flat).
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Exeter
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| St Davids and back | 2018-11-05 | Into Exeter St Davids with Liz to pick up some train tickets. Coffee on the Quay on the way back (where police divers were searching the river for a missing person).
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Exeter St Davids
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| Exeter and back | 2017-12-23 | Into Exeter and back with Liz
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Exeter
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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 | 2017-04-24 | 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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Exeter
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| Another twenty miles | 2016-10-26 | Out with Liz for another cycle ride into Exeter and back.
Trying to "power" up the bridge at Powderham, I broke 3 spokes on the rear wheel. So the last 2.5 miles are Liz alone as she went home to get the car to rescue me and the broken bike.
That means the "reserve" bike tomorrow - the almost unridden Ridgeback Genesis Day Two.
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Exeter
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-06-23 | Into Exeter and back with Liz.
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Exeter
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-02-16 | Into Exeter with Liz for coffee and a custard tart at Mrs Lutzy's.
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Exeter
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| Into Exeter | 2018-07-01 | Into Exeter with Liz to buy some excellent value £19.99 binoculars from Lidls
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Exeter
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2020-03-18 | Into Exeter with Liz on a post work bike ride
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Exeter
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| New bike wheels! | 2021-06-14 | Back from the bike shop in Exeter after getting a new pair of Hope 20five wheels fitted to the bike. The bloody wheels originally supplied with the Triban died when a spoke pulled through a rim and shattered the rim. Good riddance!
New wheels seem fine (hard to tell with a decent tail wind pushing you along).
But the gear adjustment is shagged - both front and back. I'll try to fix that before taking back to the bike shop.
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Exeter
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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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Exeter
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| Picking up the Tribby | 2019-04-12 | Liz cycle ride into Exeter to pick up the Tribby campervan after its annual service
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Exeter
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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
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| Exeter and back | 2019-02-04 | Into Exeter and back. Headwind on the way in.
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Exeter
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| Exeter and back | 2018-06-10 | Into Exeter and back with Liz with a stop at Lutzys for coffee.
Liz's first time out on her bike for several weeks.
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Exeter
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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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Exeter
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-04-19 | Bank holiday cycle ride into Exeter. Roughly two billion badly behaved children and dog owners on the path.
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Exeter
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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
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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
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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
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-11-16 | Into Exeter with Liz
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Exeter
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| Back from the bike shop | 2019-02-03 | A ride back from the Bike Shed after getting the an extension fitted to raise the handlebars on the Marin hybrid.
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Exeter
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| Exeter bike ride | 2019-10-06 | Into Exeter with Liz. Liz's left knee AWOL so really the average speed should be doubled to 19.8 mph. Mrs Lutzy's full again with bloody cyclists!
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Exeter
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| Exeter bike ride | 2022-08-11 | M&S
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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
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| Xmas cycle ride | 2019-12-25 | Into Exeter and back with Liz (who forgot the mince pies).
Sunny and no wind!
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Exeter
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| Exeter bike shop | 2019-01-19 | Into Exeter and the Bike Shed bike shop to see if I can get the handlebars on the Marin changed to improve the riding position a little.
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Exeter
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| Exeter bike ride | 2020-10-07 | To pick up some bitumous paint
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Exeter
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2020-09-06 | To buy stuff that wasn't there
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Exeter
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| Exeter ride | 2019-03-23 | Into Exeter with Liz for lunch at Mrs Lutzy's.
A rather slow ride as Liz had a bad knee and was really only riding with one leg.
I'm assuming if she'd had two legs available we'd have averaged 18 mph...
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Exeter
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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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Exeter
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| Into Exeter and back | 2017-08-05 | Too windy for sailing so we went cycling. Quite a big bit windy said Liz after her first time on the bike for quite a while.
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Exeter
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-05-12 | Into and Exeter and back to work.
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Exeter
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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
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| Exeter bike ride | 2021-10-11 | Into Exeter
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Exeter
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| Exeter bike ride | 2019-11-10 | Into Exeter with Liz
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Exeter
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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
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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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Exeter
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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
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| Exeter and back | 2017-12-09 | Into Exeter and back. Just got bike back from a big service by Jon S. Combination of a freshly serviced bike and not much wind made the moving average a bit better than some other recent rides.
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Exeter
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-07-18 | Into work and back - managed to avoid the rain. Felt faster than 14.5 mph average!
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Exeter
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