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    New Zealand Cycle Tour, Leg 4: Christchurch to Picton

    January 31, 2015

    It’s over; done and dusted; completo. The largest continuous expenditure of energy of my life has come to an end. I wondered back at the beginning whether this would be one of those trips that I hoped would last forever, and that I’d be really sad to finish. Well, it...

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    New Zealand Cycle Tour, Leg 3: Queenstown to Christchurch via Bluff

    January 23, 2015

    An Ode to Wind

     

    The lot of a cyclist can be good or bad,

    And the governing factor is weather.

    The whim of the gods can turn happy to sad,

    And bring a man to the end of his tether.

     

    Rain we can take and sun we adore:

    We just slap on some more of the cream.

    But there’s one weat...

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    New Zealand Cycle Tour, Leg 2: Westport to Queenstown

    January 10, 2015

    Well it’s been a very exciting game since you last tuned in when Team Hedgehog got off to a flying start around the north end of Pounamu. Flattened bristles decorated acres of tarmac up around Murchison and it seemed as though the competition might have been won in the...

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