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Over the weekend of the 12th and 13th of June I participated in my first ever organised cycling event, the titular Polaris Challenge. It's been a while now, but finally I have completed this write-up of my experience. Most of the delay comes down to crunching data, as usual… I've had to write and modify code to get the maps and graphs ready.

Continue reading Polaris Challenge, Summer 2010.

Hitchin is far from being an XC cycling Mecca of England, but if you have to live here (and it isn't a bad place to live) there is some worthwhile ground for keeping your cycling legs going. This short entry merely presents my encoding of a fun little 30ish kilometre (~20 mile) cycle loop to the west of Hitchin, particularly good for XC "mountain" bikers or cyclocross riders I'd say, but certainly lacking in any real challenge. But we're on the edge of the flat expanses of the mid-East here, barely in the chalk foothills of the Chilterns, so we just have to make do with what we have.

Continue reading Hitchin XC Cycle Route.