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Day 1: Vienna Airport to Krems an der Donau. 105km
It's been a while eh? After what seems like years, I'm finally off on another solo long ride home. This will be my longest. If everything...

Paul Berney
May 28, 20243 min read
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Riding the Long Way Home by the numbers
Distance 1,402km Elevation 14,376m Time 70 hours Speed Average 20kph Weight of fully laden bike 19kg...

Paul Berney
Aug 27, 20211 min read
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Day 13 - I have ridden the Long Way Home
It’s inevitable that at the end of a ride like this that I would have mixed emotions. I am happy to have finished, there’s definitely a...

Paul Berney
Aug 26, 20213 min read
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Day 12 - the end is in sight
I started day 12 of my ride sitting in the sun in the market square in Salisbury sipping coffee and watching the world go by. This is a...

Paul Berney
Aug 25, 20216 min read
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Day 11 - sunshine and smiles all round
I've got just two days and roughly 200km to go. 11 days have flown past. Well, 9 days have. The first two were tortuous and each one...

Paul Berney
Aug 24, 20214 min read
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Day 10 - a day to remember
Today is always going to stick in my mind for one reason only: it was the day I rode a bike with my Dad for the first and probably only...

Paul Berney
Aug 23, 20214 min read
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Day 9 - back to the hard stuff
Well that was a proper Riding the Long Way Home day. It was physically tough enough to leave me knackered and mentally tough enough to...

Paul Berney
Aug 22, 20214 min read
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Day 8 - Easy Does it
Throughout this trip I've been staying in a combination of Premier Inn hotels, Airbnb's and with some friends. Last nights Airbnb,...

Paul Berney
Aug 21, 20213 min read
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Day 6 - up Ventoux*
Today was a game of two halves: a morning spent with a new friend and the first solo kilometres of the trip this afternoon. First things...

Paul Berney
Aug 19, 20213 min read
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Day 5 - my cycling legs have arrived
My day 5 legs have arrived exactly on schedule. It's like I ordered them on Amazon Prime yesterday, got them out of the box and put them...

Paul Berney
Aug 18, 20214 min read
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RTLWH Day 4 - Ooh that's Flash
What the cycling God's can give with one hand they can take away with the other. After yesterday's excellent recovery ride, today was a...

Paul Berney
Aug 17, 20213 min read
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RTLWH Day 3 - it's all about recovery
I'm not sure how many readers of this blog are familiar with the concept of there being different types of fun, but it goes something...

Paul Berney
Aug 16, 20213 min read
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RTLWH - Day 2. The road to Wigan's here
I think there is a special sense of accomplishment when you complete something you were convinced that you couldn't do. By lunchtime...

Paul Berney
Aug 15, 20213 min read
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RTLWH 4 - Day 1. I am not a goat.
For each of my previous Long Way Home rides the first hour or so has been super stressful, making my way out of Milan, Hamburg and...

Paul Berney
Aug 14, 20215 min read
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Locked down, not knocked out
I have always preferred to take my longest holiday of the year over Christmas and over the past 20 years have only twice taken more than...

Paul Berney
Jan 6, 20214 min read
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The need to compete
Over the weekend I went for a run with a good friend James over some hilly and boggy moorland in Cornwall. It was my first run for over...

Paul Berney
Nov 2, 20205 min read
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Into the wild (sort of)
I could present you with a carefully curated version of events in my blog. I could miss out all of the fuck up’s and give you an edited...

Paul Berney
Oct 19, 20207 min read
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Aesir Aesir Baby
My first impressions after one month and 1500km with the Meteor Works Aesir

Paul Berney
Sep 9, 20205 min read
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Castle to Castle Wrap up
Photo courtesy of Northumberlense. Let's start with the numbers; Distance ridden: 800.5km! Meters climbed: 11,172 So somewhere we lost...

Paul Berney
Sep 6, 20205 min read
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Day 8 - The Castle to Castle ride Completed
Yesterday before we had even finished the fantastic Tissington Trail I had already begun to feel the pang of regret that the adventure...

Paul Berney
Sep 5, 20203 min read
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