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Leiblachlauf 2025
I joined George and Hans to run the Leiblachlauf. It was a 11km trot with part of the course going up the Leiblach valley. It was my first running race in about a year and I hadn’t done much running in between. So conditions were perfect… I trotted off at a something under 5 minute/km…
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Te Tahi Cave Jan 2025
Craig and I drove to Charleston where we met Pip and Kieran and stayed at the caver’s hut. Pip sprung a cave on us the following day which turned out to be a very good day out. We did the nearby Te Tahi Cave, a 20 minute drive from the hut in Charleston. The…
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Carew Creek Dec 2024
I left the bach in the morning and drove out towards the coast stopping at Carew Creek on the edge of Lake Brunner. There was a white Sentra waiting for me there and a bearded man assembling equipment to make a coffee. After a hot drink Craig and I also assembled equipment for descending a…
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Mt Alexander Dec 2024
Day 1 Katie and Jeremy picked me up from the bach in Arthur’s Pass and we drove towards Lake Brunner, stopping on the road where Camp Creek runs out of the hills. The gate was open and we drove up the somewhat overgrown track, the deep grass between the tyre tracks being mown down by…
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Japan24
Friday 25th October 2024 With not even an hour of sleep I arrived at Narita airport to the North East of Tokyo. Things seemed to go quite smoothly. I managed to book a train for the morning, inquired about potentially leaving luggage and at 4pm I was unpacking my bike that had survived the flight…
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Autumn adventures Sept 2024
I took the train to Munich on a Wednesday evening and on Thursday Johannes and I set off for the Dachstein mountains in Austria. We had booked an apartment in the wops and were planning to do some gravel biking. Initially our plans had been to ride the Tour de Kärnten Gravel but it got…
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Sea kayaking Sweden August 2024
Another sea kayaking trip to Sweden! Tuesday I took the early train to the airport from Johannes’s flat in Munich, where I’d been staying and flew to Gothenburg arriving a few minutes before Ari. We took the bus into the centre and found our way to the rental car depot by the use of unpaid…