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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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| 2017 miles cycled in 2017 | 2017-12-02 | This track reaches my target of cycling 2017 miles in 2017!
Was meant to be a gentle ride to Lutzys for lunch but a torn wall on the side of Liz's tyre meant that we had to abandon and get a new tyre.
Then into Exeter Quay a little later reaching the 2017 mile mark somewhere near the Turf Locks.
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| Up river sail | 2014-08-16 | A very pleasant up river sail as far as Topsham Sailing Club. Between F2 and F4 in the estuary but died away to very little when going up the estuary. With the tide having turned, we didn't get much furtehr than TSC.
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| Malpas and St Clement | 2015-09-21 | A shortish walk round Malpas and St Clement. Found a good canoe launching slipway just south of Truro at Sunny Corner Quay. Seafood platter for lunch at The Heron in Malpas was good.
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| Sunny Corner Quay and the Tresillian River | 2015-09-23 | From the small Sunny Corner Quay on the edge of Truro round to the Tresillian River on the Fal Estuary.
Not too far today as there was a keen wind to be paddled against on the way back down the Tresillian.
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| Launching Thalmia | 2021-03-30 | With Derek H as his Fulmar was launched from Topsham Quay on the highest tides of the year.
A lovely day so on out to sea. A bit of wind for some sailing. Lunch anchored at Sandy Bay where a couple of small dolphins came out to play.
Then some drifting waiting for enough rise of tide to come back in.
Plenty of sand / mud bank changes over the winter.
The port hand buoys in the swashway had breakign waves. The clearance coming up to buoy 3 was just 30 centimetres below the keel.
Then nudged sand banks at buoy 21 and just before SYC
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| Helford Kayaking | 2023-09-10 | A lovely paddle on the Helford. Via FranchMan's Creek then up to Tremayne Quay for lunch (and a VHF message relay for a broken down dory). Then back via Port Navas.
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| St Helier to St Quay Portrieux | 2017-05-31 | After a light wind start, a lovely sail down from St Helier, Jersey to St Quay Portrieux on the Brittany coast. Sailed under cruising chute for most of the way. St Quay has the huge advantage of being an "all tide" port (i.e. no need to wait for there to be enough water over a marina cill).
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| St Quay to Ile De Brehat | 2017-06-02 | Up from St Quay-Portreaux to Ile de Brehat. The Ile de Brehat is a small island on a rocky shore. Somewhat similar to Sark (no cars and a very small population like Sark but no cliffs).
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| Topsham cycle ride | 2020-03-09 | Round to Darts Farm. Stopped at Topsham Quay to see who was working on their boat and for coffee and a hot cross bun.
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| Hartland Quay | 2017-09-20 | A short walk to dinner from Stoke Barton Campsite on Hartland Point.
Hartland Point is a scary place if you think about sailing near it in the wind or fog and the granite "teeth" of the rocks only enhance this.
The Hartland Quay Hotel was a really nice pub doing good food.
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| Thalmia launch | 2022-04-02 | Helping with the launch of Derek H's Thalmia from Topsham Quay.
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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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| Boat fettling in Topsham | 2020-03-16 | Round to Topsham to help Derek H put sails and stuff back on his boat after the winter.
Derek went up the mast - far braver than me.
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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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| Helford Paddling | 2023-05-18 | A quick dip into Frenchman's Creek and then up to near Tremayne Quay for a coffee stop.
The first bit of the track is on land to measure the distance we dragged the kayak back up from Helford Passage to the campervan. Quite hard work but do-able. The kayak launching fee from Helford Passage was £2 which we thought was fair (and the more expensive ice cream was very nice too).
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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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| Exeter bike ride | 2021-10-13 | Coffee and nibbles at Mrs Lutzys for first time in a long while.
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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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| 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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| 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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| Exeter bike ride | 2021-10-11 | Into Exeter
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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
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| Exeter and back | 2016-11-19 | Another 20 mile ride into Exeter and back.
First ever average of 13 mph on a twenty mile ride.
Storm Angus had left the flood prevention overflows in full spate in 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 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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| Windy cycle ride | 2019-12-15 | Into Exeter with Liz. Windy. River flooded.
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-08-04 | Into Exeter and back with Liz.
Coffee at Mrs Lutzys.
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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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| 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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| 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 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 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 cycle ride | 2019-12-07 | Into Exeter with Liz
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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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| 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 and back | 2017-04-14 | Wanted a nice gentle ride as it was the first time back on the bike in three weeks - a camper van trip and a slow to end lurgie having got in the way.
And a nice gentle ride with Liz it was.
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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 and SYC | 2019-12-01 | Into Exeter and then back via SYC for the AGM, Windy.
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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 and back | 2017-06-12 | Quite hard work as I hadn't been on the bike for the last three weeks and there was a bit of a head wind on the way out.
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| Work cycle ride | 2017-06-23 | In to Exeter and back. Stopped at SYC on the way back.
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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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| DIY shopping | 2020-12-17 | Into Marsh Barton. A bti wet and a bit windy.
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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 cycle ride | 2019-06-10 | Into Exeter and back with Liz. Coffee and a choccie brownie and Mrs Lutzys.
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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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| 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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| Work cycle ride | 2017-08-01 | Into Exeter and back
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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 bike ride | 2020-11-12 | Into Exeter for some DIY click and collect shopping
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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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| 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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| 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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| Exeter and back | 2017-12-04 | A ride into Exeter and back with Liz
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| Into Exeter | 2019-11-04 | With Liz. Coffee at Mrs Lutzys
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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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| 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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| 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 and back | 2018-01-29 | Into Exeter and back with Liz to do a bit of shopping.
Bit windy and had to walk past the people putting up a new fence along the railway along the estuary.
There was a new cruise boat - The Spirit Of Loch Ness - in the Turf Lock. Not seen her before.
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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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| A short ride from Exeter | 2020-03-23 | Back from Exeter and via Dawlish Warren
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| Exeter cycle ride | 2019-10-27 | Into Exeter with Liz
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Into Exeter | 2018-07-01 | Into Exeter with Liz to buy some excellent value £19.99 binoculars from Lidls
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| Exeter bike ride | 2020-03-22 | Into Exeter - just past St Davids
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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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| 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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| 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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| Breakfast at Lutzys | 2018-10-20 | Into Exeter with Liz for breakfast at Lutzys
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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 and back | 2018-11-03 | Into Exeter for breakfast at Lutzys. Strong headwind on the way home.
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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 cycle ride | 2019-09-01 | Into Exeter with Liz. Strong headwind on the way in and Liz short on breakfast and energy. Coffee and a tart at Mrs Lutyzs helped.
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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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| 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 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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| 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 shopping | 2019-10-19 | Into Exeter with Liz for a bit of shopping
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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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