Pete's Blog

Childhood: bikes, bullying, and N. Ireland

In this post I am going to go briefly into my childhood, focusing on bikes, bullying, and N.Ireland. I would describe my childhood as generally pleasant, and a fun experience for the most part. If anyone has lived in Northern Ireland for any period of time they will know there is still a divide amongContinue reading “Childhood: bikes, bullying, and N. Ireland”

Writing for writing sake

I’ve had a bit of a break from writing since I’m not really aiming to please anyone but myself. I have had a few ideas of what to write for my next blogs and forgot about the why. The question isn’t why? It’s why not? Writing is so easy for me yet I have onlyContinue reading “Writing for writing sake”

New Year Resolution

I never normally make any real new year’s resolutions, and this year isn’t going to be any different. I’ve never taken the process very seriously as it seems presumptuous that a new year is going to somehow motivate you to complete the task you’ve set yourself. If you can’t motivate yourself on December 1st, whyContinue reading “New Year Resolution”

Roaring Twenties – Financial Independence

Over the course of the last few weeks I have been getting stuck into reading blogs about financial independence and retiring early: two things I never dreamed possible until now. Over the Christmas holidays I couldn’t stop reading different blogs about FIRE and was immediately hooked into the dream of retiring early (retiring for meContinue reading “Roaring Twenties – Financial Independence”

Sickness

Since feeling fairly under the weather this week I have foregone the normal cycle commute, and instead drove to work each day. This is unlike me, as I would normally continue exercising despite feeling shitty, but I think getting older and wiser* has taught me many little life lessons. *Caveat: I may feel wiser, butContinue reading “Sickness”

The Lonely Sandwich

On my third week of newbie cycling, my legs were starting to hurt a lot more than normal, especially when I carried my boys up the stairs to bed. I figured my muscles are still getting used to the switch from heavy deadlifts (140kg) to 60 miles of cycling each week. I’m sure they willContinue reading “The Lonely Sandwich”

Strava

Week two began well, I managed to not die which was nice. I listened to a rider at work, who gave some sound advice on my pace and effort to reduce my times. I somehow managed to get home in 29 minutes, which is a whole 11 minutes quicker than my first day! With thisContinue reading “Strava”

End Of Week One

After five days of cold weather cycling I was able to bring my time down by 3 minutes, which really isn’t a lot according to the guys at my new job! I needed to work on my pacing and gears apparently, but I was happy just to be cycling. Heading to week 2 seemed aContinue reading “End Of Week One”

Changing Jobs

I recently got offered a new job, one that is closer to home, and has many other great benefits, the key one being that I could cycle to work. To review my cycling history won’t take long: I bought my hybrid bike two years ago and rode it less than five times in that time.Continue reading “Changing Jobs”