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This road is longer than I ever thought
I never thought Two fat Laddies would be such a long journey. I thought we’d have done it by now; that Shaun and I would each be five stones lighter. But life get in the way of things sometimes. Bookmark … Continue reading
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Tagged appeal, bike, canal, cycle, cycling, dieting, Edinburgh, Falkirk, fitness, glasgow, Iain Pope, pedal for scotland, restaurant, Shaun Milne, STV, t-shirt, towpath, Two Fat Laddies, weight, weight loss
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Don’t be a cowboy .. get on your bike and drink your milk
It was a fine day on Sunday. The sun was splitting the sky, a slight breeze cooling at just the right moment. The perfect day for football, suntraps or lounging around in your favourite company. My choice was to get … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling, Shaun's Posts
Tagged bike, cycle, Edinburgh, freshnlow, glasgow, pedal for scotland, ride, September, Two Fat Laddies
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Tour de Farce, maybe, but we’ll Pedal for Scotland
Cycling was never my thing as a kid. I enjoyed it enough dodging about on the streets with friends, steering between the shards of broken glass that inevitably littered the bleak, concrete housing scheme where I grew up. But they … Continue reading
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Tagged bikes, biking, cancer, cycle, cycles, cycling, Edinburgh, exercise, freshnlow, glasgow, harris, Iain Pope, Maggie's Centre, pedal for scotland, Shaun Milne, stornoway, Tour de Farce, tour de france, Two Fat Laddies, weight loss
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The 3am Club
The streets where I live are deathly quiet in the hour between 3am and 4am on a weekday, save the odd passing gritter or lorry hauling it’s cargo towards the motorway. It is a stillness to life which, when enveloped … Continue reading
The Homecoming
Right. The plan was to have blogged from Stornoway about our adventures this past week but a combination of failing to try very hard to find Wi-Fi action, staying out at music fuelled trad sessions until 6am and frankly wonderful … Continue reading
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Tagged Alpine Bikes, bike, Clare Carswell, cycle, diet, drink, exercise, folk, Heb fest, Hebridean, Hebridean Celtic Festical, Iain Pope, mountain bike, music, Paul Lindsay, pubs, Raleigh, Ridgeback, Shaun Milne, stornoway, tourer, traditional, Two Fat Laddies, weight, western isles
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Adopting the Lotus Position
My first car was a red Vauxhall Astra and to me, the bomb. I washed it faithfully every week, checked the oil, made up tapes for long journeys way before CDs or MP3s were around. It cost me about £500, … Continue reading
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Tagged bike, bus, Clare Carswell, cycle, diet, Edinburgh, exercise, Iain Pope, Lotus, National Nike Week, Paul Lindsay, Shaun Milne, Sighthill, train, Two Fat Laddies, Volvo, walk, weight loss
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East to West
So I surprised myself yesterday and did something I never thought I could do – I cycled from Edinburgh to Glasgow. And not even the short way either. I did all 100k or so of it from Fountainbridge, just round … Continue reading
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Tagged Avon Gorge, buckfast, buckie, cycle, cycling, Edinburgh, Falkirk, fat, fitness, forth and clyde canal, fountainbridge, glasgow, Iain Pope, iphone, kelvingrove park, kilsyth, kirkintilloch, linlithgow, lochrin basin, maryhill, Paul Lindsay, polmont, ratho, river clyde, ruchill, Shaun Milne, slimming, the falkirk wheel, the stables, Two Fat Laddies, union canal, weedge, weight, weight loss, winchburgh
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Just 265 days to go ….
Two Fat Laddies, then, is 100 days old. That means Iain and myself now have less than 265 days left to lose a little over five stone between us. By this time our target was to have lost 36.5lbs. In … Continue reading
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Tagged 10k, calton hill, charity, Clare Carswell, cycle, diet, donations, Edinburgh, exercise, Falkirk, holyrood park, Iain Pope, macmillan, Meadows, New Town, Paul Lindsay, princes street, Scottish mountain rescue, Shaun Milne, training, Two Fat Laddies, weight loss, Zoo
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I want to ride my bicycle
Well that’s that then, my first proper, not to-the-shops-and-back jaunt on a bike in years. If not quite Land’s End to John O’Groats it was still enough to be going on with – 12.3 miles along the East Lothian coast … Continue reading
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Tagged asparagus, caravan, Cockburn street, cockenzie, cycle, dauphinoise potatoes, diet bike, duddingston, fat, fitness, greg lemond, gunwales, highland tollbooth, holyrood park, Iain Pope, john o'Groats, king of the mountains, la plagne, Lands end, Laurent fignon, London road, lycra, mother’s day, Musselburgh, port seton, princes street, rioja, Robert millar, Shaun Milne, ski station, slimming, st giles cathedral, Stephen roche, teuchters, tour de france, Two Fat Laddies, venison, weigh in, weight, weight loss, willowbrae
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Saddling Up For Better Weather
Some weekend sunshine and a few spare hours saw me disappear into Edinburgh at the weekend with my bike, pulling it from the garage into the light, adding a little air to the tyres and away we went. I’ d … Continue reading
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Tagged Clare Carswell, cycle, cycling, diet, exercise, Iain Pope, Paul Lindsay, Shaun Milne, Two Fat Laddies, weight
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