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Conwy Half-Marathon Recce

Conwy Half-Marathon Recce

Our blog posts are mainly about our cycling adventures, our day trips and our tours. Occasionally we write posts about walks we have been on, and every so often we have included a post about somewhere we have visited. Strangely however we have never written anything previously about another interest of ours, that of running. This Conwy Half-Marathon Recce post finally corrects that. On Sunday 24th November we are participating in the Conwy Half-Marathon organised by Run Wales. It will…

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Colwyn Bay – A Day at the Seaside

Colwyn Bay – A Day at the Seaside

One of the best cycle routes in the UK has to be the coastal cycle path along the North Wales coast (i.e. sections of National Cycle Network routes 5 & 8). In our last post I mentioned cycling a section of the NCN from Rhyl to Bangor. Unfortunately Sarah couldn’t join us on that ride and hasn’t cycled most of it before. Since it is such a great ride Sarah and I decided to correct that, and cycle between Prestatyn and Caernarfon over…

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Bank Holiday in Wales

Bank Holiday in Wales

The plan was to spend the August bank holiday cycling and to check out a route around Bangor that would be used at the SCCC weekend away in a couple of weeks time. Unfortunately we had forgotten to book good weather! We woke up to wind and really strong winds. This made taking the tent down a very interesting although rather wet process. We almost lost the tent to the wind! Instead of folding it all up nicely, we settled on just…

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