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How to make yourself look good

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Surround yourself with talented people, of course.

Sent off a draft of the Border Ranges feature article for Ride On magazine. Along with links for Nico’s photos from the day.

And the response from the Associate Editor of Ride On?

“Hi Andrew

That all looks perfect. The photos are stunning. I wish we had a professional photographer on every ride we feature!

The article is engaging and descriptive. I don’t think it needs any more work – I can pop on a lead and headline, subedit it and then we are good to go.”

I’m actually pretty excited to see how this comes out. And there’s no doubt that Nick’s photos will be the stars of the show.

I worked with a very young but very talented designer once, whose favourite saying was “words are just the gray bits between photos”. Getting more true every day.

 

Loop the loop

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Super-duper day on the bike doing a Rathdowney-Lions Rd-The Risk-Mt Lindesay-Palen Creek-Rathdowney loop today.

Highlights: riding with a great bunch of folks through spectacular scenery. Lowlight: Jan had a crash that could have been pretty nasty on a narrow bridge. But my goodness that woman is made of tough stuff.

More later about today, because there’s a feature article to be written about it for Ride On magazine. And later because tonight I have other deadlines to meet for 9.30 am tomorrow.

Isn’t this fudge great?

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So you remember those good old fashioned Easter weekends where you and your family went away with another coupla families, and you were at the beach and the sun was shining and the kids were all let’s go to the beach let’s go to the pool beach pool beach pool and the dads were all let’s go for a walk/ride/think I need a lie-down and the mums were all where’s your sunscreen and your hat and how’s Janene, haven’t seen her lately but her cousin’s daughter’s mother-in-law just had another baby, at her age, really and isn’t this fudge great did you make this and who wants some eggs for breakfast not chocolate eggs you goose I really don’t believe you just did that and has anyone seen my keys my phone my wallet who cares …

Yeah. Had me one of those.

Amongst it all, a couple of nice outings on the mtb. Riding along the beach at Noosa North Shore, round the trails of Tewantin State Forest, and a lap of Cooloolabin Dam. Pretty sweet.

Of course I watched Tommeke ride away from all those nobodies. And Anna Meares, I love you forever. (Maybe not as much as Les does). And I found some time to read snippets of The New Timer which was by far the best coverage of the worlds. And I don’t even like tattoos.

 

I don’t know what a Wallum Froglet is, but these guys rock

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Dave dumps a load of rocks on the trail. Yes, that’s what he meant to do.

Good fun for a couple of hours down at Cornubia Forest with the Logan City Trailcare Alliance.

Here’s the rest of the pix to have a look through. The crew are only a couple of weeks away from finishing Part B of Wallum Froglet, which is a beautiful climbing trail, and a super-fun and surprisingly tricky descending trail.

Update: Here’s Dave’s view on the day.

And a pic of me interviewing Andrew Fry.

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So this is going well

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And by this, I mean the outcomes of this.

As regular readers have no doubt noticed, we’re all multi-media here at Briztreadley these days.

And although this is mostly a site about cycling, its also my personal platform, and I will talk about whatever takes my fancy. Nobody’s holding a gun to your head, you know. Leave whenever you get bored.

And I’m just a teeny-tiny bit buzzed about the fact that the editor of the website that I write football articles for agreed to my idea for a podcast. And we’ve now recorded two episodes of the pod.

And it’s NOW AVAILABLE ON FREAKING ITUNES. Theoretically on the same footing as Football Weekly (from The Guardian), or This American Life, etc etc.

That is as cool as the other side of the pillow. I don’t care what you think, my podcast is on iTunes. (I do care what you think, go listen and let me know).

Running on empty

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This week’s Sunday Spin is available.

I can’t link to it on Soundcloud because I need to buy some more space for my Soundcloud account because of all the podcasting and interview-recording I’m doing. So I’m going to have to either cough up 29 Euros (I don’t know how much that really is!), or delete some of the golden moments that currently exist there.

The file is also on my Skydrive to download (because I know you want to collect the whole set for yourself, some of my readers are kinda OCD, but still very nice people, not at all loopy that would be a totally unkind thing to even IMPLY), see the Sunday Spin archive page for details.

So I’ll see if you can play it from a WordPress audio widget here.

It seems you can.

All of this being a multi-media internet cycling superstar* costs me a fortune!

(*as well as being a substantial self-delusion)

(But please listen to the Sunday Spin, this week including my very favourite bike shop owner JP)