Comments on: Seriously Outclassed

By: Anecdata « Town Mouse

Anecdata « Town Mouse — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:29:09 +0000

[...] but I’ve noticed the phenomenon up here of the indestructible octegenarian, usually cyclists, though occasionally walkers (someone else was complaining that she was getting little breathless [...]

By: Living Dangerously « Town Mouse

Living Dangerously « Town Mouse — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:31:14 +0000

[...] unlikely, for while you do see a fair few overweight people around here, you also see a lot of pretty sprightly ones. Surely the 2.5% of non-unhealthy Scots can’t all be living in this little corner of the [...]

By: Spring Unsprung « Town Mouse

Spring Unsprung « Town Mouse — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:20:15 +0000

[...] That’s funny, I thought to myself as I cycled back from my latest excursion with the BNCC. The road ahead looks as though it’s going straight into a [...]

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:07:18 +0000

Sarah – hmm. Takes all the fun out of climbing mountains, really. Although I can see how the desire to ‘bag’ a new one might encourage people out.

Paul – Shhhhh. Nobody knows about that…

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:39:51 +0000

I see that sanity has prevailed and you have returned Lance’s time-trial machine to him. Was a $10,000 bike fun?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:40:38 +0000

Of course, technically speaking before someone else says so, a Munro or a Corbett can also be a Marilyn.

It’s all to do with relative height above the surrounding ground.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:38:02 +0000

Corbetts as in “I’ve done my Munroes, now I’m doing my Corbetts”. Usually uttered by the kind of folk who won’t do a hill twice.

(Corbetts are 2500 – 3000 feet. Smaller than Munroes but bigger than Marilyns.)

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:28:43 +0000

It’s more likely they’ll ask me why I wasn’t scrambling up some mountain in the sheeting rain, but I know what you mean. Still, they’ve been going 10 years and have only generated the one rule, so I think it’ll be fine…

By: Flaneur Brian

Flaneur Brian — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:55:16 +0000

Call me an old anarchist but some things are best left to individual expression, religion and cycling being but two of them. As soon as they become “organised”, you’re in for trouble…

Just wait, before long they’ll be asking why they haven’t seen you at the kirk of a Sunday!

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:46:53 +0000

Well, I’d done the 19 all in one go, and this one had a break in the middle so I had a feeling I’d be OK. My legs may have another tale to tell tomorrow though!