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Fracture Clinic Fun

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

This should be the last episode in my Chronicles of the Clavicle.  I first broke mine in April by falling from my unicycle at speed.  I then let it heal, started riding the unicycle again, and then re-broke it with a minor fall in June.
Today I had the best visit to the Fracture Clinic ever.
In […]

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Crunch

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Some quick answers:

This was me, in see-through mode, on Saturday 4 April.
I fell off my unicycle.
It didn’t hurt any more than normally falling off unicycle does.
It was my fancy, new KH Schlumpf 36″, but that wasn’t the cause (wasn’t going any faster than I would have done otherwise, around 30kph on the flat).
I met the […]

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24 hours on a unicycle - the movie

Friday, March 20th, 2009

The long awaited movie of my World Record unicycle ride. Thanks Jonny!

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I’ve just had the privilege and pleasure of attending the biggest event every two years in the unicycle calendar - the World Championships and Convention - in Denmark.
This one was the biggest ever, with almost 1000 registered competitors and a further 500 participants. It is a wonderful and surreal thing to have so many […]

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Ride The Lobster: The Aftermath

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

(How about that for the name of a sequel?)

This photo was me and my team at the end of our stage win on Day 4 of the Ride The Lobster race.  We were a scratch team having not met before arriving in Nova Scotia, and with a range of ability from Chuck (left), a scary […]

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Ride The Lobster

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

This is the long-distance unicycle road race in Canada that I am going to.  100 unicyclists, five days of racing. Nova Scotia.  It’s going to be fun :)
You can watch the live GPS updates which the event should be producing via magical internet things on maps, from  Monday to Friday next week (16th - 20th […]

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UniconXV, New Zealand

Friday, June 6th, 2008

This is the official logo for the 15th Unicycling World Championships and Convention in New Zealand in 2010 (the spiky bit is a fern - the national symbol of NZ). It was also my first dabble in Illustrator, and it won me a free place at the convention. Woo!

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Finished… and lots more to do!

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Woo - I have done all of the essays, assignments, project work, revision, exams and last-minute cramming required to say: I’ve finished my degree!
As with most things with such a build up (like at least a couple of years thinking ‘OK, it would be silly to quit, it’ll be alright really, just get it done […]

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Just the place name is enough to justify visiting it. Eisteddfa Gurig is 17 miles from Aberystwyth on the A44, and is about 420 metres above sea level. Just about high enough to still have the random snow of Sunday morning unmelted by 3pm. I made a quick snowball (not quite as […]

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You’ve got to dream, haven’t you?

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The conspiring factors of having stupid amounts to do on final-year university work and my inability to make myself do it when I should are making me think more than usual about The Big One (my emphasis). How about this for a 20 000 mile jaunt: through Europe, Asia, Australasia, South America, Africa and […]

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