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	<description>Em and Hel's big cycle ride, will they make it?</description>
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		<title>Tuesday update&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.girlsoncogs.com/2010/07/05/217/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well we have been pretty slack  on the blog but have been out most tuesdays and covered around 25-35 miles each time and enjoyed sunshine and very light evenings.  Bit disappointing on the beer front though &#8211; either choice of ales a little poor or people needing to get early nights!!!  Last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday night &#8211; first outing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 19:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So first trip of the year, and we had 6 enthusiastic participants.  The sun was shining and so were several new bikes.  We headed out from Braunstone Leisure Centre, through Braunstone town towards Kirby Muxloe, Desford and onto Thornton reservoir.    We saw lots of other cyclists out on the road, all making the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday nighters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 18:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first tuesday cycle ride was announced and we should all have been very enthusiastic, but truthfully, Em, Claire, Caroline and myself had already committed to a night of shopping, dinner and wine&#8230;.A very good evening!
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		<title>Paris and home</title>
		<link>http://www.girlsoncogs.com/2010/05/09/206/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 18:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps we should admit that we were a little under prepared for this trip&#8230;and after hiking up the Eiffel Tower on our first day of sightseeing, there was a unanimous decision&#8230;to go back to bed for not a little power nap but a big sleep before continuing our venture in &#8216;Gay Paris!   Note: Just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leicester to Paris Day 5:  6th April 2010 Beauvais to Paris</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estimated miles: 45
Miles: 57
Average speed:  9.2  (worst yet!!!)
Total trip miles:  135
Route: D927 Beauvais, Meru then opt 1 (ours) D927 to Pointoise, D4 along river to Auvers sur Oise or opt 2 (favoured by everyone else) D927 to Herouville and D928 to Aurvers-sur-Oise (about an hour quicker apparently!)D928 towards Paris, a lot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leicester to Paris Day 4:  5th April 2010 Abbeville to Beauvais</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Em
Miles: 57
Average speed: 9.9  (it keeps on getting lower and lower…..)
Route: D901 Abbeville, Poix-de-Picardie, Grandvilliers, Marseille-en-beauvais, Beauvais
We set off again at a good pace but lost our average speed because of some big hills. Mat and Anna were ahead of us and Charlie behind. He decided to do some sightseeing in Abberville. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leicester to Paris Day 3:  4th April 2010 Calais to Abbeville</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estimated miles:  75
Miles cycled: 85
Average speed: 10.2  (slower again…..)
Route:  D305/D127 Guines, D231 Ardres, D224 Nabringhen, N42/ D127 Le Wast, D343 Desvres, Hucqueliers, D108 Wambercourt, Hesdin, D928 Abbeville
We set out together with a good speed along the French ‘A’ roads and passed several other speedy, professional-looking cyclists all lyra’d up in matching colours.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leicester to Paris Day 2: 3rd April 2010 North Weald to Calais</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miles from North Weald to Dover: 100 miles
Miles cycled:  40
Trains: 1
Ferries: 2
Average speed:  10.9 (unbelievably only 0.2 mph faster than yesterday with the massive headwind)
Route: A414 from North Weald A128  Chipping Ongar to Orsett.  Chadwell St Mary, A126 to Tilbury Ferry &#8211; Gravesend.  A226 to Chatham Station&#8230;train to Dover!  Ferry to Calais.
So we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leicester to Paris: Day 1: Good Friday (2nd April 2010) Leicester to North Weald (Harlow, Essex)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cyclists:  Emma, Hels, Dan, Stav, Mat, Anna, Charlie
Estimated miles: 110
Estimated arrival time: 6.30 pm
Actual miles: 113
Actual arrival time:  10pm
Average speed: 10.7 mph
New bikes 2:  Em’s sparkly new Trek, Charlie’s Dawes Galaxy
Mountain bikes: 1  Dan – but he did have a fetching BMX helmet to complement
Weather:  Cold, wet and very windy….
Numbness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Em&#8217;s Pre Training for Leicester to Paris</title>
		<link>http://www.girlsoncogs.com/2010/04/11/186/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[21st March 2010
Well the Easter cycling trip from Leicester to Paris somehow is fast approaching&#8230;..  2 weeks to be precise and I have done zero training!!! I think the fear factor has gone since Hels and I completed the LEJOG trip.
Although Hels and I have both cycled throughout the winter months to and from [...]]]></description>
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