Sitting here at the isle of wight Garlic Festival watching a really terrible band singing a terible song where the chorus is ” These are the best days of our life”
I don’t know much about bands and that but I suspect that when you start out on the road of wild rock and roll you’re not hoping that you’ll one day end up headlining a Garlic Festival.
Oh well Alvin Stardust is on at four
I received the handlebar mount for my GPS yesterday and today got to test it out. It turns out my daily route is 10.1 miles. After a quick look around the web I found the site Everytrail.com that lets you upload your trip’s GPX file gives you some snazzy info about the speed and elevation changes over the journey all on top of a google map. I can even embed it here:
Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging
Just slide the arrow along the bar and you can see me speeding down Mousehole Lane and grinding slowly up Burgess Road 
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DOH! Does’t work in Livejournal, click through to my wordpress site to see it in action
As expected the inoculations weren’t very nice. The people at the surgery were great but whatever way you do it getting a couple of jabs in the thigh at the age of 9 weeks isn’t going to be anything but painful. Here’s the little chapper before:
And here just after 
Poor wee chap, if either of us could have done this for him we would have. He soon settled down and within a couple of hours was back to his smiling best. Another set in a month’s time and it’s Suzey’s turn to hold him this time
Hoorah! Got some new inner tubes and fixed my bike yesterday which put me in good spirits today to cracked my 10 mile cherry. Here’s the route I took early this morning:
It didn’t help having to cycle through a fair bit of drizzle and a hangover. I really can’t do lots of beer any more. Last night out with Tony and Karl was excellent fun but as I get older the morning after consequences are getting more severe. It was pretty funny that Karl’s taken up cycling too, he’s further into it than me and did the London / Brighton in June. Fish suggested doing that next year and I could well be up for it.
In the meantime I’m now aiming for 15 miles by the end of next week. To help me stay enthusiastic I’ve now got a cateye cycling computer and ordered handlebar mount for the Garmin GPS Suzey got me last year That’s an excellent intersection of biking and nerding right there and should mean I can upload routes into google maps sometime soon.
In other news it may not be a great day today; the boy gets his inoculations later this afternoon and from what we understand it can be pretty grim for the litter fella. We’ve the calpol on standby but neither of us are relishing seeing him go through this. We’ve been told by a couple of people that once settled it’s not unusual for the baby to do a 12 hour stretch of sleep after but getting them settled can be pretty distressing. Fingers crossed for 2pm.
Today I should be blogging about how I’d managed a 10 mile run on the bike. I’d managed 9.1 miles yesterday in one non stop ride and it was pretty easy so today I was up for doing at least 10. Alongside that entry there should also be some fetching photos taken from the top of Itchen Bridge. Unfortunately instead there’s this:
A couple of miles and I drove over a rusty nail. Being a bit of an amateur at this I had no puncture repair kit or a spare innertube so it meant a two mile walk with the bike back home. Still got some exercise but wasn’t best pleased. Also not great is that I took my camera along and now it’s stopped being recognised by my computer when it’s plugged in. I think some of the bumping in the bag on the back of the bike broke it a bit Bummer. Off to the cycle shop tomorrow at 9 to buy the stuff I need to fix it.
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