Two ‘big races’ for this year.

June

Celtman Solo Point Five

August

The Reckless

I’ve covered Celtman Solo before – see here and here – but The Reckless is a new event: an extreme triathlon with an off-road bike route. As it’s only a couple of hours away and takes places among a stunning part of the west coast I wanted to try it out. However, as I don’t have an off-road bike I might have to add ‘borrow bike’ to my important training goals!

We have no expectation that anyone wants to read TwinBikeRun but it is ever so slightly annoying that last year we were just a couple of hundred views shy of 20,000. 🙂

But, as even one view is much appreciated, we won’t complain… that much.

The summer proved the most popular months for readers and we suspect that’s due to people wanting to find out more about open water swimming. In December there’s a lot less people googling “How do I get to the White Loch Glasgow”, unless they have an ice axe and the tolerance of a polar bear.

And a big hello to our single reader from Greenland, who is probably the one person who would be looking for a swim in Glasgow in December as it would be warm compared to Greenland!

Plus 79 swims for 95,473m.

This year it appears that Veloviewer has not only started charging £10 to view your infographic it has also dropped swimming so that it only shows running and cycling. Maybe next year they’ll charge a £20 option to get all your data?

My unsuccessful attempt to complete a 31-day online yoga challenge.

For the last three years I’ve used January to try and learn something new. Three years ago it was to try 31 days of exercise, two years ago it was 31 days of stretching, last year it was 31 days of learning to play the piano and this year it’s 31 days of… lunch.

When I was young, on a Sunday night we were allowed to have dinner in front of the television. For the rest of the week, we would have dinner in the kitchen, as a family. But on Sunday, we could watch TV and eat biscuits and cheese.

I say cheese. It was a Kraft cheese slice cut into four squares and then eaten between two cream crackers.

It was great.

Today, I also had biscuits and cheese but a ‘posh’ version – instead of Kraft cheese slices I had a selection of cheeses from a local cheese shop.

I say cheese shop but I don’t think they would recognise themselves as a shop. They are a cheese specialist importer/wine bar/deli. Or basically a Tesco Express with a sit in drinks licence.

The good thing about having the cheese after Christmas is that we avoided the Christmas queues. Before Christmas you can wait an hour in Glasgow to get into any cheese shop. And, once in, if you’re unlucky, you’ll also have to stand behind someone who, when asked: “Would you like to try one?” says “Yes. And that one. And that one. And that one too. Oh, and why not, can I try that one also?”

It’s cheese! A cheddar. A blue. A brie. What more do you need to know?

So, for today’s lunch, I chose a cheddar, a blue and a brie and tried to recreate my childhood by listening to the Ski Sunday theme tune while buttering a cracker.

Bread: …ish. A biscuit again.

Filling: three cheeses.

Taste: you can’t go wrong with cheese, a biscuit and a bit of butter.