Is cycling in London dangerous?

There's a pothole on my cycle home that's trying to kill me. Every evening, just after I've passed King's Cross and breathed a sigh of relief that the madness of central London traffic is behind me, there it is. It waits until I'm on a nice long descent, picking up speed for the upcoming ascent [...]

2017-06-23T07:39:59+01:005 March 2013|

Idiots’ Guide to Triathlon

Guest post by K, like in caKe; triathlon aficionado and writer of the fabulously illustrated blog, 'Cake of Good Hope'.Not content with being Lazy Girl Running, our girl tells me she's thinking of adding some swimming and cycling to the mix this year. She's asked me for an 'Idiot's Guide to Triathlon' to help her on her [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:18+01:0019 March 2012|

Super cycling

When plans were announced years ago for a cycle superhighway through London, first I did an excited little yelp and then I imagined an express lane for bikes through the skies of the capital. It seemed so far in the future that these plans would actually materialise that I wondered whether we'd all be pedalling hoverbikes [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:31+01:003 June 2011|

Can runners and cyclists get along?

A few weeks ago I tweeted that I was a huge fan of the new cycle superhighways that we have in London but maybe Boris should consider implementing running superhighways. Many a true word is tweeted in jest and I'm beginning to think my idea is more than necessary.I'm a one world without borders kind of [...]

2017-06-23T07:40:44+01:0022 September 2010|
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