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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
Posted in Iain's Exercise Diary, Iain's Posts
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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Some scumbag stole my bike from the tenement close
My bike got tanned. I got home, as usual, and walked up the stairs to the flat. It wasn’t until I got to the landing just below home, and found my way blocked by one of the massive full length … Continue reading
Posted in Iain's Kit, Iain's Posts
Tagged bike, cycling, diet, dieting, Edinburgh, fitness, freshnlo, glasgow, Graeme Obree, Iain Pope, neighbours, pedal for scotland, Ridgeback. MX-5, shaun mline, stair, stolen, tenement, theft, Two Fat Laddies, weight loss
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Off The Record..Just Between You and Me..I’ve Got a New Job
Sunday morning. Proper coffee as a weekend treat, papers, kids watching the cartoons. Biggest dilemmas today are who is taking kid number 1 to the party to which they have been invited, and who is taking kid number 2 to … Continue reading
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Tagged career, central quay, Daily Mirror, Daily Record, Edinburgh, fat, fitness, glasgow, Iain Pope, job, london, loony dook, mankini, news editor, pacific quay, record pm, Shaun Milne, stv local, Trinity Mirror, Two Fat Laddies, weight loss
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I’ll get my coat …
It’s not until you take a long, mournful look back that you can truly appreciate the scale of the obesity inflicted upon one’s self. What was there staring everyone in the face every day was compartmentalised in a tiny mental … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic connections, clothes, Debenhams, diet, dieting, Edinburgh, exercise, fat, fitness, George Street, glasgow, Iain Pope, overcoat, princes street, Rose Street, Shaun Milne, shopping, training, Two Fat Laddies, weight loss
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Getting hot and sweaty with some Bikram Yoga
There was a point last night, as I lay there bathed in my own sweat, when I contemplated my impending heart attack. I looked pleadingly to the door – the door I had expressly been asked not to open. I … Continue reading
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Tagged bikram, Bikram Choudhury, blog, byres road, calcutta, fart, fat, fitness, glasgow, heart attack, Iain Pope, ibrahim, rubaiyat, Shaun Milne, slimming, toxins, Two Fat Laddies, weight loss, west end, yoga
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Niteworks gig in Glasgow next month to launch their debut EP
Among the highlights of this year so far for me was the Hebridean Celtic Festival. I dubbed it ‘probably the best music festival in the world’. Whether or not others believe that to be true also, it will be etched … Continue reading
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Tagged @HebCelt, @Niteworksband, diet, EP, exercise, glasgow, hebridean celtic festival, Iain Pope, Shaun Milne, skye, Two Fat Laddies, 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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