Week off/mountain biking

So I just had a week off to look after Ffin, and have decided it's a rest week from road biking so have been doing a bit of mountain biking. Went out a few times, below are some photos from wednesdays ride.. not very spectacular but wanted to try out the new camera.


Kinder resevoir.. misty and dull.

Looking towards Hayfield, wish camera had arrived on Monday, the views were sponktacular.

The sun making a lame effort to break through.

Twenty trees. At this stage i had a made a small error of letting most of the air out of my front suspension in a quest for more squishyness. Not being the sort to carry a shock pump around with me meant the bike rode not entirely well all the way home.

New camera AND DOG

So I splashed out and got the middle of the range Olympus Tough TG-820 camera, which seems to be jolly good and all that. Just in time to take millions of photos of our new puppy- Ffin, who is currently on a campaign to destroy household and persons via teethy doom.


Perhaps i will poo in front of the telly next then eat it.

Destroying heather on a typicial rampage.

Need a new camera

So on the last day of the NZ holiday I snorkeled to such immense depths the camera imploded and now is more composed of salt than electronics. If I am ever to start my blog up again.. which i want to as we have a new puppy who will hopefully want to come running with me... then I need a new camera.

Am thinking about getting one of the Olympus ones like this TG-1... unfortunately they're a bit expensive...


I should probably just splash out as time is a wasting.. Unfortunately the other thing which the NZ holiday cost me was all my money so I need to find some way to finance this investment...

In other news.. I have nearly captioned all the NZ photos we took.. will post up the link here when I've done it (probably sometime mid-June)

The darkness approaches

Went out for a quick local run on Wednesday night with Steve. Stunning sunset, alpenglow and everything on Brown Knoll (well peakenglow maybe.)


It's now pretty dark on my cycle in, and getting dark early in the evening.

I find commuting by bike helps alleviate the usual depression associated with it though. Maybe its because spending more time outside you get to see all the little nice phenonemon. Such as today when it rained all the way home whilst also being bright sunshine. It created beautiful lighting effects, that if i'd been in a car would have been totally missed. Saying that my shoes would be be a bit drier if i'd driven..

Anyway..slightly blurtastic brown knoll.

Our destination South Head in the background.

Lovely.

Alport Castles

Went for a longish run at the weekend around Alport Castles. never been there before, very nice. Really wild on the moors behind it - nearly stood on two separate hares. The weather was super hot which made the last bit rather hard.

A view from above the castles. Think it's fairbrook naze and seal edge in the background.

Frank the sheep admiring one of the castles (some wierdos say they are a landslip but clearly they are castles)

I said to Steve "pretend to run" for the photo, I think he needs to work on his pretending to run pose.

Return of the return of the mac

So after many months of not bothering to take my camera out or update my blog, I have sworn to return - and here I am! Here are some pictures of an evening run with Steve and Alex...


Clear kinder - it was windy and a bit nippy.

Nice clouds about.

The dragons back as someone once called it possibly inaccurately...

Maurice the sheep.

Looking back at famine and South head.. always impressive from this side.

Half skyline

Ah bank holiday monday, thank god it wasn't another day of rain. Did half of the Skyline route with Steve, it was tiring - the race must be hard!


Everything looking greener now.

Lots of people floating about,. There was some sort of competition going on. Not sure how they were marked though.. style?

Looking towards Grindslow Knoll/Ringing Roger where we eventually came down.

Steve descending from Ringing Roger.