{"id":919,"date":"2008-01-08T20:55:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T20:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=919"},"modified":"2008-01-08T20:55:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T20:55:58","slug":"i-challenge-you-to-a-duel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/i-challenge-you-to-a-duel\/","title":{"rendered":"I challenge you.. to a duel!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not only has Ed thrown his typewriter (that’s what everyone uses to do a PhD right?) in the bin he’s thrown down the gauntlet and challenged the slackest of them all to some cycle-related stuff in 2008: My eyes they saw a better day, as I looked across the fields<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I think he’s just worried about me since I said I’d stopped drinking! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

He says.. I therefore challenge him:<\/p>\n

* to go on a long ride with me at some point, through the Chilterns or wherever, as long as we do at least 100 miles. Though we ride for the same club and have read each others blogs for years now, we have never actually been on a proper ride together! Maybe he’s trying to tell me something \ud83d\ude41<\/i><\/p>\n

Yeah, I’m trying to tell you that 100mi of hills might kill me! \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

Anyway, I was almost always on club runs and I never saw you.. where were you? I reckon you<\/i> were avoiding me<\/i>. I do smell pretty bad so fair play \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I’m up for this.<\/p>\n

* to ride the first West London Combine TT out near Maidenhead (this should be early March – last year a good Willesden showing, it’s only a 10 mile TT and easily reachable by train from Ealing!)<\/i><\/p>\n

Is this one of those silly ones you need to enter by post? That’s pushing it a bit. 10mi I can do (slowly). If you keep an eye out and let me know when you’re entering, then I’m up for this as well.<\/p>\n

* to ride the Chiltern 100 sportive (Gran Fondo) in early June. Lots of hills!<\/i><\/p>\n

This one was already on the cards, being so close to where I live. It’s only a week after the 480k\/300mi, 3-day Tour of Wessex sportive<\/a> so I’m likely to be totally shagged, but, what the hell! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Read more of Ed’s Blog: omcoc.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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