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Paul Berney
- Aug 27, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 26, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 25, 2021
- 6 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 24, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 23, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 22, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 21, 2021
- 3 min
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,...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 19, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 18, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 17, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 16, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 15, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Aug 14, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Jan 6, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Nov 2, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Oct 19, 2020
- 7 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Sep 9, 2020
- 5 min
Aesir Aesir Baby
My first impressions after one month and 1500km with the Meteor Works Aesir
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Paul Berney
- Sep 6, 2020
- 5 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Sep 5, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Paul Berney
- Sep 4, 2020
- 4 min
Day 7 - Holmfirth to Ashbourne
It's pretty clear to me now that the reason Komoot has the Pennine Cycle Way as the toughest in the UK is because of the unrelenting...
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