That’s me now done 78% of #walk1000miles. So 781.82 miles down and 218.28 miles remaining!
Keep up-to-date with all my cycling and walking adventures over at www.strava.com/athletes/gsvalentine
Mammut Local Adventure Challenge ✅
That’s me completed yet another Strava challenge, this time the “Mammut Local Adventure Challenge“ one.
Please do check out my profile at www.strava.com/athletes/gsvalentine and better still follow me. Oh and do remember, if it’s not on Strava, it did not happen! FACT!!!!
FuturumShop 125km Challenge ✅
That’s me completed yet another Strava challenge, this time the “FuturumShop 125km Challenge“ one.
Please do check out my profile at www.strava.com/athletes/gsvalentine and better still follow me. Oh and do remember, if it’s not on Strava, it did not happen! FACT!!!!
UK TV programmes to watch this week : 06/06/2020
Off the Tracks: Inside Central Station (BBC Scotland/HD & BBC iPlayer only | 9:00pm to 10:00pm | Sunday 7th June 2020)
A train disruption causes travel chaos for football fans, and the concourse becomes a stage for fans of the Proclaimers to pay tribute to their heroes.
The Architecture The Railways Built (Yesterday | 8:00pm to 9:00pm | Tuesday 9th June 2020)
Tim Dunn rides up Mount Snowdon’s railway to visit the summit station, and discovers how a glass structure envelopes Strasbourg’s 19th-century station.
Scotland’s Home of the Year (BBC Scotland/HD & BBC iPlayer only | 8:00pm to 8:30pm | Wednesday 10th June 2020)
In the Lothians and the East of Scotland, the judges visit a glass-fronted home, a country cottage, and a stunning Georgian townhouse.
The Railway 24/7 (Channel 5/HD | 9:00pm to 10:00pm | Wednesday 10th June 2020)
Documentary series offering a behind the scenes look at life working at TransPennine Express, from control room to maintenance depot, and drivers to cleaners. In the first episode, a derailed train threatens to bring the network to a halt during the busiest time of the year. Meanwhile at HQ, the bosses decide to bring in a new timetable which sees hundreds of services scrapped.
Inside the Steam Train Museum (Channel 5/HD | 7:00pm to 8:00pm | Thursday 11th June 2020)
Phil and Stuart go to huge efforts decorating the site with home-made pumpkin-scarecrows, graveyards and mummies in preparation for Halloween. Brian cooks breakfast on a shovel for the engine drivers and John tells ghost stories from the fairground. As the event gets under way, the museum’s enthusiastic volunteers dress up in costume to scare the public on the ghost train, while retired minister David entertains the passengers on the journey.
The World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys (Channel 5/HD | 8:00pm to 9:00pm | Friday 12th June 2020)
A 600-mile journey through one of the most world’s most northern countries – Finland – from Helsinki in the south to Kemijärvi in Finnish Lapland. The line whisks passengers through the thickest of forests, past vast frozen lakes 63 times the size of Lake Windermere and to station stops where time has stood still. As the train enters the Arctic Circle, it calls at Rovaniemi, a place destroyed by German soldiers at the end of the Second World War. Now the town has been re-built, famously in the shape of a reindeer, serving as the official home of Santa Claus. Narrated by Bill Nighy.
All TV guide information taken from DigiGuide — www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=15119.
Ride around the World ✅
That’s me completed yet another Strava challenge, this time the “Ride around the World“ challenge.
Please do check out my profile at www.strava.com/athletes/gsvalentine and better still follow me. Oh and do remember, if it’s not on Strava, it did not happen! FACT!!!
Good cycle, back before the rain started!
That was another great cycle, did 19.97 miles and better still, made it back, just before the weather changed! I don’t really want to get my new Lycra skinsuit all wet! Sure lot’s of you, would pay good money to see that! LOL!
Today’s route can be seen at www.strava.com/activities/3562965629
Now done 75% of #walk1000miles – 2020
That’s me now done 75% of #walk1000miles. So 750.88 miles down and 249.12 miles remaining!
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Vlog – 1 June 2020
Sure most of you, are getting bored of myself, just standing in front of the camera and speaking! So here is something a bit new! Yes of course, you still get to see myself in Lycra! Let me know, what you think.
P.S. Yes my second vlog in 4K!
Waltham transmitting station cycle
Always love cycling up close to the Waltham transmitting station. Since it’s 315 metres tall and can see it from miles and miles. Only really get an idea, of how tall it is, when standing very close to it!
Today’s route can be found at www.strava.com/activities/3548519770
More photos of myself, wearing the Hunter inline skinsuit Team Britain 2018, can be found at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/cycling/gear/hunter-inline-skinsuit-team-britain-2018/