Greg and myself showing that we can look happy even at work :).
Oh dear, yet another member of staff is going
I can’t believe it. Yet another great member of staff is leaving work. This time it’s Emilie! Now who I am going to get all my hugs from?? 🙁
Good luck with your job BTW Emilie! xx
Cycled to/from work, third Wednesday in row
Well pleased with myself. Just got back from cycling to and from work (Peterborough Greyhound Stadium) for the third Wednesday in a row! So really hope that the weather is good next Wednesday. So I can make it four in a row!
I will now leave you with the route statistics. No point in posting the maps again. Since I used mainly the same route as the last two times.
Little Bytham to Peterborough Greyhound Stadium route statistics:-
- Start time: 3:49 pm.
- Distance: 22.48 miles.
- Time: 1:35:08 (h:m:s).
- Elapsed Time: 1:39:08 (h:m:s).
- Avg Speed: 14.2 mph.
- Max Speed: 29.1 mph.
Peterborough Greyhound Stadiumto Little Bytham route statistics:-
- Start time: 11:08 pm
- Distance: 22.39 miles.
- Time: 1:39:37 (h:m:s).
- Elapsed Time: 1:53:57 (h:m:s).
- Avg Speed: 13.5 mph.
- Max Speed: 29.8 mph.
Data from: Garmin Connect.
Cycled to and from work at long last!!
At long last I have gotten around to cycling to and from work for the first time this year! So in other words a 46 mile round trip! It’s taken so long to get around to it this year. Mainly due to the fact, I did not have a pannier rack, fixed to my new bike. Only got around to installing it last Saturday for the Prudential RideLondon FreeCycle.
So now I have have to hope we have great weather for the rest of August and September. So I can do it many times and save lots of money! By not having to use my car so much!
Little Bytham to Peterborough Greyhound Stadium route information
Route map:-
Elevation graph:-
Route statistics:-
- Distance: 22.44 miles.
- Time: 1:38:18 (h:m:s).
- Avg Speed: 13.7 mph.
- Max Speed: 28.9 mph.
- Elevation Gain: 220 meters.
- Min Elevation: 4 meters.
- Max Elevation: 55 meters.
Peterborough Greyhound Stadium to Little Bytham route information
Route map:-
Elevation graph:-
Route statistics:-
- Distance: 22.66 miles.
- Time: 1:49:12 (h:m:s).
- Avg Speed: 12.5 mph.
- Max Speed: 28.7 mph.
- Elevation Gain: 324 meters.
- Min Elevation: 4 meters.
- Max Elevation: 84 meters.
Data from: Garmin Connect.
Vlog: Peterborough to London cycle
I know this vlog is very old indeed! Filmed it back in July 2008. While Mike and myself were in train for the End to End cycle. It was hosted on our join YouTube channel, which Mike deleted it, without asking me! So was about about time I re-uploaded it to my own YouTube channel!
Watch our vlog, to see if we made it all the way to London…
Vlog: Backwards race
A “backwards race” at The Peterborough Greyhound Stadium. Three lads tied to each other, running backwards. Needless to say, they just about all fell over and get cover in sand.
Children In Need 2012 : more photos
Here are some more photos from this years Children In Need at the Peterborough Greyhounds. Big thanks to Emilie for emailing these over to me!
The full set of these photos can be found at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/england/peterboroughgreyhounds/cin-2012/
Work Christmas meal
Every year the Peterborough Greyhound restaurant and kitchen staff go out for a Christmas meal. Believe it or not. It’s only the second time I have ever been. Which is bad since I have been working at the dog track since 2003. The last time I went was 2009.
I mainly went this year, since every year I hear so many stories about all the things that happened. So this year, I wanted to see it for myself :).
It was a good night, other than one of the young ones being sick all over this table! So can’t see the Ibrahimi Restaurant having us back again next year!
More photos can be found at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/me/2011/page/11/
No car month off to a great start :)
You may remember me saying a while back, that I was planned not to use my car the whole of June. Well it’s off to a start great. I cycled to and from work for the first time this year :). So let’s hope the weather stays like this for the whole of June. Well at the next number of days are looking after good. So I WILL be cycling to and from work again this Friday and Saturday.
So here are the statistics from both cycles:-
From Little Bytham (home) to Peterborough Greyhound Stadium (work).
- Time: 1:29:50 (h:m:s).
- Distance: 22.47 miles.
- Elevation Gain: 105 metres.
- Calories: 1,112 C.
- Avg Speed: 15.0 mph.
- Max Speed: 26.4 mph.
From Peterborough Greyhound Stadium (work) to Little Bytham (home).
- Time: 01:43:40 (h:m:s).
- Distance: 23.09 miles.
- Elevation Gain: 176 metres.
- Calories: 1,071 C.
- Avg Speed: 13.4 mph.
- Max Speed: 23.5 mph.
Sunday – 7th November 2010
I went a fun cycle with my friends Ashley and Rich. We cycled from Peterborough to Huntingdon covering a distance of 46.35 miles. The cycle took us 3:31:52 (h:m:s). It was great fun, makes a change getting to cycle with people, since most times I cycle by myself.