Since my last lot of favourite photos of myself from 2018 went down so well… Here are my favourite ones of me, all nice and helpless.

Many more can be found at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/bondage/helpless/

First cycle of 2019 ✅

9 January 2019

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That’s me just done the first cycle of 2019! It was only 14.03 miles, but during that, I cycled in Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Rutland!

You can check out the route, I took over www.strava.com/activities/2066564920

Favourite photos of myself from 2018

9 January 2019

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Here are my favourite photos of myself from 2018! They are not in any order! Of course, it was very hard picking just 5 photos. Since, I much have posted around 1,000 photos of myself last year!

Grand Union Canal walk update : 08-Jan-2019

8 January 2019

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Since we started walking the Grand Union Canal, we have made it from London up to Stoke Bruerne.

So far it’s taken us 9 days… That’s been broken up into the following…

Day 1 – Paddington Basin to Bull’s Bridge – 15.10 miles
Day 2 – River Thames to Slough – 16.44 miles
Day 3 – West Drayton to Watford – 13.05 miles
Day 4 – Watford to Apsley – 8.51 miles
Day 5 – Apsley to Tring – 10.24 miles
Day 6 – Tring to Leighton Buzzard – 12.31 miles
Day 7 – Leighton Buzzard to Bletchley – 9.39 miles
Day 8 – Bletchley to Wolverton – 11.97 miles
Day 9 – Wolverton to Stoke Bruerne – 8.76 miles

Total distance so far: 105.77 miles.

Wetherspoons, I’ve visited : 08-January-2019

8 January 2019

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It’s about, I updated the list of Wetherspoons, I’ve visited. Since I can add the following to my list 🙂

West Kirk, 58a Sandgate, Ayr.
Counting House, 67-71 Reform Street, Dundee.
Sir John Moore, 260-292 Argyle Street, Glasgow.
Last Post, 2 County Square, Paisley.

Check out my full list at www.gordon-valentine.com/travel/jd-wetherspoon-pubs/

Glasgow Central railway station, needs more LNER services!

8 January 2019

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Glasgow Central railway station is the busiest in Scotland. But it happens to be, the one I use the least! Mainly due to fast, you can’t get many direct train to it from Peterborough any more. Like you could under the GNER days! Which is one, of the main reasons, I started mainly driving to/from Scotland and stopped using the train!

LNER, is doing a way better job than both National Express East Coast and Virgin Trains East Coast, ever did! But, I still would rate GNER has the best railway franchise the UK ever had!

More photos can be found over at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/railway-stations/glasgow-central/

December 2018 cycling statistics

8 January 2019

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December turned out to be a good month cycling wise. I did 139.9 miles, which is 106.8 more miles, than I did in, December 2017.

Remember you can follow my cycling adventures over at www.strava.com/athletes/gsvalentine.

Here is the data from December 2018:-

Total cycles: 8
Total Distance: 139.94 miles
Total Time: 12:22:54 (h:m:s)
Avg Speed: 11.3 mph
Max Time: 02:31:38 (h:m:s)
Max Speed: 27.6 mph
Avg Distance: 17.39 miles
Max Distance: 29.02 (Single cycle)

Data from: Garmin Connect.

Here are my favourite cycling photos from the month:-

First time, using Stirling railway station, since electrification

7 January 2019

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I know that most people will not think the same… But I, for one think that Stirling railway station, looks much better, since electrification. It makes it feel, more like a main railway station. Which of course it is, since you can get trains to Aberdeen, Alloa, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth and even London!

But it’s going to take me a while getting use to, using a Class 365 running to/from Stirling. Since I’am so use to seeing, them run between London King’s Cross and Peterborough, in the past.

I also for one, think that ScotRail are doing a great job! So nice to see, some of the work, they have and Network Rail, have been doing start, to pay off!