Druid Challenge - Muddy Funsters

Well, I made 20 miles before all the wheels fell off my wagon. It opened in thick mist (and stoats hunting bunnies) and the first half was decent: everyone was walking the hills and saving their energy, so my strategy wasn't out of place. When the mist lifted it was only to allow proper rain. Halfway through, around the White Horse, my right knee (o Judas knee) went sproing . After...

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School me on carb-loading

Next Sunday is the marathon run. I hear that one carb-loads for such things, and that carb-loading isn't just a big bowl of pasta the night before. Edumacate me! (psst: www.justgiving.com/andygates )

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It's for charudee!

... back down now, boy" that's going to keep me going at mile seventeen when the end is still out of sight and the sleet is coming down. Yes, I'm exploiting cute little orphan children to push me to the finish. No, of course I have no morals. What charity? Red Cross - "unconditional care in a crisis" is as close to universal good guys as you're going to find. www.justgiving.com/andygates .

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24HCD - Ground Level

Here you go folks: Flickr Slideshow

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24 Hour Comics Day

24 Hour Comics Day is a challenge to create a 24-page comic book in 24 hours. I started yesterday at noon. I call Noble Failure: the whole thing was scripted and laid out, but only pages 1-15 were inked; I got from noon to 3:30am before my drawing hand cramped up and my brain noticed that it had been running on Red Bull and cherry bakewells for hours. The planned power nap overran in epic ...

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Cadbury Castle

The little one, that is. After last week's Tour of Britain fun was done, I went up and walked the Cadbury Castle site with my GPS, then put the detail into OpenStreetMap using the embankment tag. It just so happens there's an OSM layer for Google Earth. How did the walk match up with the aerial photo? Pretty darn well, I'd say. I have an awful urge to flit from ancient site to ancient ...

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Lurgy

Fair chance it's the hog pox. Bah.

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Dunwich Dynamo XVII

It's that time of year again - July's full moon weekend and the 120-mile ride from central London to Dunwich on the Suffolk coast. This year, on the back of a great year for bikes in the UK and some fantastic weather, there was a record turnout of up to 1000 riders. The Dun Run is the nicest, funnest overnight century you could hope to ride, so the plan this year was to do it on ...

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Dunwich Dynamo XVII

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Iron Gravestone

I spotted this iron gravestone while out 'n' about at the weekend (surveying for OpenStreetMap) in All Saints' churchyard in Kenton, Devon. It's definitely iron, but is it a gravestone? Has anyone seen any others? Was there a fad for iron tomb markers that faded as fast as it appeared? It makes me think of rusting city cemeteries in New Crobuzon. :)

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