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Paul Berney
- Aug 9, 2019
- 4 min
Day 5 Venlo to Maastrict - too much of a good thing
Check out those wet cobbles! That's Gilbert in blue Evening all... For those of us of a certain age, Maastrict will forever be associated...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 8, 2019
- 3 min
Day 4 Haltern am See to Venlo - We have seen better days
On the evidence of this trip, running the Lower Saxony tourist office must be one of the toughest jobs in Germany. Outside of the big...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 7, 2019
- 4 min
Day 3 Osnabrück to Haltern - a tower of strength
Downton Abbey Deserted roads Ooh hills... The man who saved my day. I hate to break it to you, but I don't sit down and write these posts...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 6, 2019
- 3 min
Day 2 Verden to Osnabruck - the raging wind blows
Just before his 13th birthday Michael and I rode the Coast to Coast route together from Seascale to Gateshead. We did this over four days...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 5, 2019
- 3 min
Day 1 - Hamburg to Verden - Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
They say you should never go back. You will never recapture the moment. Never feel what you felt again. Clearly the people who say this...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 5, 2019
- 3 min
This year's adventure ride - Hamburg to Home
The day before I left Milan for last year's journey I felt a mixture of excitement and nervousness. So many questions were going through...
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Paul Berney
- Jul 22, 2019
- 4 min
The Possibility of Adventure.
Think back to your first bike. Well perhaps not the first one with stabilisers or the one that you rode around your garden, street or...
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Paul Berney
- Jul 1, 2019
- 5 min
C2C: Dedicated Domestique Duties
Note: I wrote this the day after the C2C but didn't publish it. Something in the original version didn't feel right and so I left it in...
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Paul Berney
- Jun 20, 2019
- 2 min
Cheer the F*ck up!
I’ve got a bad back. It’s been a problem for years. It has stopped me from training properly and sometimes from riding at all over the...
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Paul Berney
- Apr 17, 2019
- 6 min
Snakes and Ladders in the sun
At times my cycling life has felt like an extended game of snakes and ladders, with every gain counter balanced by the ever present...
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Paul Berney
- Mar 10, 2019
- 4 min
Cape Town Cycle Tour(ture)*
It’s a funny thing the mind. The mind that was telling me I was in pain and should abandon, was the same mind that an hour later was...
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Paul Berney
- Mar 9, 2019
- 4 min
Don’t Peak Too Early
Because I am training for the C2C I can’t afford to come here, taper and then race and go home (listen to me trying to sound like I am...
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Paul Berney
- Mar 8, 2019
- 4 min
Cape Town Shake Down
Let's start with this: I know I am very fortunate to be here. Not lucky because I don't believe in luck except for when you win raffles...
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Paul Berney
- Feb 28, 2019
- 4 min
Time to get serious
There's a branch of psychology that deals with something called cognitive bias - this is basically all the unconscious things that...
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Paul Berney
- Feb 21, 2019
- 4 min
The Lies I Tell Myself
Three weeks ago I wrote that I had got my mojo back. I hadn’t. I was just hoping it was true really. Sometimes we can lie to ourselves...
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Paul Berney
- Jan 23, 2019
- 5 min
Plans not resolutions
Apparently the 12th January is now officially "Quitters Day" and by now most people have given up on their New Year's Resolutions. I...
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Paul Berney
- Jan 20, 2019
- 5 min
Mojo, Will Power & Wattathon
You have exactly as much will power as you think you have. I lost my cycling mojo. Since the start of the year I have been struggling...
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Paul Berney
- Jan 5, 2019
- 3 min
Yes, but that was last year
Note: I know it looks like I haven't written anything in months, but I have. I just forgot to press the publish button! Yeah, yeah, yeah....
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Paul Berney
- Jan 5, 2019
- 5 min
Sneaking off to Mallorca
When a friend offers you a last minute opportunity to join him for a long weekend in Mallorca with work colleagues you don't turn it...
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Paul Berney
- Oct 28, 2018
- 2 min
Whose stupid idea was this?
The recent Tour of Britain included a Team Time Trial that looked fantastic. A five man team pushing themselves to go as collectively...
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