Birthday muffin madness

My fortieth birthday was a couple of weeks ago, and I wanted some suitably interesting cakes to take to work to celebrate with.

The 12 meals of Christmas

I had a great Christmas, rather overindulging on food, even managing to exceed the 7 special meals that were planned in my calendar. I did a bit of extra riding to compensate for it though, and I’ve included a couple of recipes, so you can taste some of my experiments for yourself.

C2C shirts are finally ready!

I’ve been working for a long time on getting some T-shirts printed to celebrate the Coast to Coast unicycle ride, and they’re finally ready.

One-wheeled fun at the Bristol Cycle Festival

The first Bristol Cycle Festival finished a few weeks ago, but I’ve only just managed to scrape enough time together to write about what a great time I had at most of the events I attended, and to sort through the photos I took.

Coast to Coast unicycle challenge day 4 – high spirits on the final descent

The final day, 26 August 2010, of the Coast to Coast unicycle challenge was the longest distance ride of the week, and there were yet more mechanical difficulties. Despite that, we all made it to the end.

Coast to Coast unicycle challenge day 3 – free wheeling on the big hills

Yesterday on the Coast to Coast unicycle challenge, I’d thought that my trip might be over, due to mechanical difficulties, but it all got sorted for the third day, 25 August 2010.

Coast to Coast unicycle challenge day 2 – a hard slog on a noisy wheel

The second day of the Coast to Coast unicycle challenge, 24 August 2010, was a lot harder than the first for me, despite the relatively flat profile, which made me doubt my ability to complete the week’s journey to Sunderland. But despite the exhaustion and mechanical setbacks, we all made it intact to the end.

Coast to Coast unicycle challenge day 1 – a wet start to a great week

Lack of time, battery and signal strength have prevented me from posting this until now, but the first day of riding, on 23 August 2010, was certainly eventful, and a good introduction to the Coast to Coast unicycle challenge.

Coast to Coast unicycle challenge – we made it!

After 140 miles over 4 days, our intrepid band.of 8 unicyclists have arrived in Sunderland. I don’t have the time or energy for a full report now, but I’ll be writing the whole thing up over the next couple of days. If you’ve sponsored me on Just Giving and left your email address, you’ll get a notification when it’s ready to read.

However, before I do that, I really need a good night’s sleep, as the last few days have left me utterly exhausted.

Coast to Coast unicycle challenge day 0 – the long journey to the start

This post is as much a test of the technology as anything; it doesn’t include much about unicycling, but hopefully has a couple of interesting things which happened on the way to the start of the Coast to Coast unicycle challenge.