Getting stung by a wasp is not fun. For me, it ranks way up there, stratospherically high in fact, in my list of ‘unfun’ things to experience. It is perhaps higher even than shopping in IKEA or changing the cat litter.
Getting stung by a wasp whilst descending a technical mountain road at over eighty [...]
May 23, 2009
Categories: Health, fitness, food, humour, sport, travel . Tags: cycling near Barcelona, descending, pita bread, Santa Fe de Montseny, sting, wasp stings when cycling, wasps . Author: eduardo dos remedios . Comments: Leave a Comment
For a moment I thought the driver of the little Daihatsu Matiz was gesticulating at me, he had the swivel-eyed look of a mad man, one that would happily jump out of his car, tear the wind-shield wipers off it and beat you to death with them. I held my line, ready to take [...]
May 18, 2009
Categories: Health, fitness, food, humour, sport, travel . Tags: bike training, climbs, continental drift, daihatsu matiz, queen, road rage, slow cars . Author: eduardo dos remedios . Comments: Leave a Comment
I had not touched a bike for almost two months but this did not matter for I had been swimming every day. I was a smidge over two hours into my first road ride and was happy. I felt great. Lungs felt good. Legs felt good. Bliss. I was [...]
May 10, 2009
Categories: Health, fitness, food, humour, sport, travel . Tags: bonking, cramping, cycle training, cycling, flip flops, hitting the wall, Laughter the best medicine, muppets, Readers Digest, running out of food, twat . Author: eduardo dos remedios . Comments: Leave a Comment