Saturday – 24th April 2010

Since the weather has been so great the last number of weeks, I have been out cycling just about every day. So far this month I have been 16 cycles, covering a distance of 365 miles. Total time 24:38:06 (h:m:s). Elevation Gain: 4,887 metres. Average speed: 14.8 mph. Maximum speed: 37.2 mph. So really hope that the weather stays like this good a while longer.

Wearing my Team Discovery cycling gear

It was so nice today, it was the first time this year, I have been out cycling in my sexy lycra shorts. I did the Bassingthorpe loop, which covers a distance of just over 24 miles.

Once back from the cycle, I had a much needed shower. Then got ready for my second night as bar supervisor, lucky tonight was not as busy as last night.

Then after work I went out for some drinks with Andy, since it’s his late night at the track for a good while, since he’s got a new job somewhere else.

Friday – 23rd April 2010

Sorry that I have been so bad at updating my blog so far this year… No idea why just not been in the mood for doing it. Anyway here is today’s main news…

First of all some news on stuff that I am doing in May. In late May it’s my parents 40th wedding anniversary, so I am going to up Scotland from a number of days, to see them. Also the family is getting together to go out for a meal. So it will be Mum, Dad, my two bothers Craig and Douglas and their girlfriends. It will be a bit weird, with me being the only single one their, oh well. 40 years a hell of a long time, I still remember their 25th anniversary and thinking that was long time. So when the meal does happen, I will make sure I post a blog about it 🙂

So now onto the other main news of the day. I started my “new” job at the Peterborough Greyhound Stadium, as the restaurant bar supervisor. I say “new” like that I since I first did that job from last October 2007. to January 2008 ish. I only did it for that long since my boss at the time, then changed her mind and said the restaurant did not need a bar supervisor, so I went back to my old job as a bar man. Thing is since then, I have really been doing that job anyway, just not been getting paid for it. So it’s great to get the job back, still got no idea what my extra pay will be. I do really need to ask about that 🙂

I think my first night back being the bar supervisor went well. They could not have picked a busier evening for to start my new job. I am sure if, I did not do a good job of it, my boss would soon let me know!

Thursday – 8th April 2010

Having a wee rest in some woods just off Risewood Lane

The main thing I did today, was to got for the longest cycle this year so far. I did 42.47 miles in 02:46.41 (HH:MM:SS), with a Average Speed of 15.3 mph and my max speed was 32.8 mph. It was also the longest cycle, since doing the End to End cycle, in August last year. Also check out my photos from 2010 to see some photos from the cycle.

Saturday – 27th March 2010

Today’s main news, is that I have now done just over 13,000 miles of cycling since, April 2003. So well pleased with myself, going to aim to get that up to at least, 14,500 before the year is out.

Monday – 22rd February 2010

I am well happy it looks like all my hard work I did on the End to End cycle website last week has paid off, it’s now listed in the top 7 search results of google, if you search for “end to end cycle“. Oh and lots of people have emailed me and asked, why I have been doing so much work to the End to End website, well that is easy, I am planning on doing the cycle again in 2011 or 2012. So I want one of the best End to End cycle website’s on the net, before that happens 🙂

Tuesday – 16th February 2010

I spend most of the day moving the End to End cycle website, to it’s own hosting space. Up till now it’s been hosting using hosting space on this website. Mean as meant the URL’s for the website have not been the most. The main URL was www.endtoend-cycle.co.uk, then any sub page had to have www.gordon-valentine.com/endowed/ in them. Meant that trying to get filled on the first page on google, when search for “end to end cycle” just did not happen. It was showing up on something like page 4.

Now I am sure, I will get it listed on page one, with of course my aim being to get it listed in at least the first 5 search results. I am more then sure I can do it 🙂

In other End to End cycle website news, I also added a new photo gallery system, so you can now view the photos in a slideshow, even better if you have Cooliris installed, you can view the photos in a 3D Wall which is well cool! To try it out goto www.endtoend-cycle.com/photos/ then click on “[View with PicLens]”. You will need to have the Cooliris addon installed, which works with Google Chrome, Firefox and IE.

Sunday – 14th February 2010

First of all happy Valentine’s Day everyone. Oh and did I get a single Valentine’s Day card of course, not!! Then that’s nothing new at all. Even when I was with my last BF I next to never got them. It would have been nice to have got at least one. Maybe next year then.

So then on to what I have been doing today, which is not that much at all really. After giving my End to End cycle website a big update last weekend. I made up my mind, to give another one of my website’s a big update. This time I updated Carmen Squillante’s website (website no longer on-line), she is a book author that I did a website for a good number of years ago. The main reason I updated the website and redid it with WordPress, is so she can now login and do updates herself.

Other than that I did not really do much at all today, other then watch four episodes of Party of Five, on CBS Drama on my Freesat+ HD box.

Sunday – 7th February 2010

I spent most of the day giving my End to End cycle website the biggish updated, it’s ever had. So please can you check it out and let me know what you think of it, by posting comments here. To the left you can see a screen dump of what it use to look like and what it looks like now.

In other news, very sad news. One of my next door neighbours dogs has died. So spend a good number of hours with her, checking that she is OK. It’s never nice having to say good bye to a dog, he was about 13 and half years old.