16 miles in the rain

So the 2 x 50′s back to back got cancelled due to horrendous weather, neither me or my brother in law fancied camping out in it – sad but true. The UK seems to be going through some kind of biblical deluge. After sitting in all day getting frustrated and just looking through the window […]

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First half century completed

Its true, the further you go the more confidence you get. Although this is a one off, I need to complete around this mileage or more every day for 13 days. I guess tomorrow I’ll see how I feel. With 17 weeks to go, this is a good start. Next week 2 x 50′s back […]

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My JoGLE Route

Here is a breakdown of the proposed route. It started as an edited reverse version of Rob and Jon’s LeJOG route from 2010. Although from reading alot of the CTC forum its been modified alot too to achieve some aims of getting into Wigan to see family on the way and also to try and […]

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Ubuntu Unity 11.10 windows slow and laggy with ATI and NVidia GPU’s

I’ve spent alot of today playing with Ubuntu and Unity, I noticed that when Zooming in, the graphics tore and windows where slow to drag. I found this on the Ubuntu forums which seems to do the trick and make it super smooth. ATI Radeon GPU’s Install fglrx driver (stock driver is choppy…); to do […]

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