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Tag: Cycling

  • Sharks, Hearts and Death-Bed Regrets

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    Below are six of the adventure and philosophical blogging highlights from April 2012.  Featured this month is advice on protecting yourself from sharks when swimming across oceans (useful stuff), running with a broken heart (in the more literal rather than romantic sense) and a strangely compelling motivational video (#3). I make a similar list each…

  • How I Train For My Expeditions

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    I enjoy physically challenging projects and that is reflected in many of my expeditions and undertakings. The truth, however, is that I rarely train specifically for any given challenge. Instead, I just keep a general level of fitness which means I’m usually ready for whatever plans I make. However, since the purpose of this website…

  • The Man Who Lived On His Bike

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    I honestly think this might be the best video I’ve ever seen… THE MAN WHO LIVED ON HIS BIKE from Guillaume Blanchet on Vimeo.

  • Cycling from Scilly to Shetland

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    Tomorrow evening I will be hopping on a train to Cornwall with my wife and two bicycles. Laura and I will then take a ferry to the Isles of Scilly where we’ll start cycling vaguely north east via Land’s End all the way up to the Shetland Islands via John O’Groats and the Orkneys. During…

  • What Constitutes Cycling Around the World?

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    The first record of someone pedalling around the world is Englishman Thomas Stevens’ 13,000 mile journey by Penny Farthing in 1884 carrying little more than a spare shirt, a change of socks and a pistol. Much has changed since then – in particular there is less need for firearm – but the essence remains much…

  • Top 10 Things to do in Patagonia

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    Shortly before heading out to South America at the end of last year, Laura made contact with Swoop Patagonia, a travel company based in Bristol. We met with Luke Errington, who runs Swoop with Charlotte Brown, and they were incredibly helpful in hooking us up with some contacts down south. And now they’ve kindly written…

  • Longest Journey by Rickshaw (I set a world record)

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    It’s been a long time coming but I have now received official confirmation from Guinness World Records that I hold the record for the longest journey by rickshaw. In 2010 I cycled just over a thousand miles on a circuitous route from Aviemore back to London. Using a rickshaw donated by Bug Bugs, I was raising…

  • Matt Baker Rickshaw Challenge (and other celebrity expeditions)

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    A couple of months ago I got a call from somebody at the BBC’s The One Show asking about riding a rickshaw long distance. I have to admit that I didn’t know what The One Show was but, after being as helpful as I could, I’ve since been brought up to speed and seen presenter…

  • Binmen, C**p and Salt – Six of the Best, October 2011

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    Below are some articles from other people’s websites that I have enjoyed reading over the last month and think that you might too. They tend to be from blogs about expeditions, adventures, philosophy and life in general. Binman Fitness – Andy Kirkpatrick Cutting the c**p, danger on polar expeditions – Alex Hibbert Seven Music Festivals…

  • Front Cover Of My New Book

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    My publishers just sent me a copy of the front cover design for the book I’m writing: How To Get To The North Pole. My deadline for writing is Christmas, after which the book is due for release in Spring next year. It should be about £10 to buy with individual chapters available as ebooks.

  • Don’t Cycle Lands End To John O’Groats

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    There are endless possibilities for original adventurous undertakings across the UK and around the world. Don’t just cycle Lands End to John O’Groats by default. Let me start by saying that I have no problem with “LEJOG”, as it’s known. I would love to make the trip – be it by bicycle, on foot or…

  • Cold Water Therapy (This Is The Serpentine)

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    Stupid. I should have known that late October was not a good time to go cycling in sandals but I’d come back from holiday the night before and hadn’t adjusted my thermostat. It is cold. To make matters worse, the first three miles are all downhill, littered with traffic lights and choked with commuters so…