Author: Jason Carvalho
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Career change
A lot has happened since January. In February my employer announced a restructure, with some inevitable redundancies. At the end of March my time at Cranfield University came to an end, after nearly eleven years. During that time I gradually moved from IT to marketing, working as a sys admin, then web application developer and […]
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Trail centre – Cwmcarn
My new year resolution of visiting some of the mountain bike trail centres around the UK is progressing nicely, last Sunday I took a drive over to South Wales to ride the Twrch trail at CwmCarn. It’s only a 30 minute drive past the Severn Bridge, so dead easy to get to for those living […]
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Bike skills coaching session
I attended a mountain bike coaching session last Friday with Tony Doyle of UK Bike Skills. The day was bought for me as a Christmas present last month and I’d been waiting for the date to come around with some anticipation. I’d heard good things about Tony’s courses but was also a tiny bit sceptical […]
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So, 2010
Here’s a few notable bits and pieces from 2009 Got married Had an amazing holiday in New Zealand and Australia Got a half marathon personal best of 1:56 Entered my first triathlon Bought a few bikes First sports car free year since 2002 Set up a darkroom in the garage for ‘proper’ B&W wet prints […]
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Jase Fried Chicken
Crikey, it’s been a while. Two months in fact. It’s been reasonably busy, hence not posting here, in that time I’ve gotten married and spent nearly a month in New Zealand and Australia on honeymoon. Photos coming soon once I’ve had a chance to go through them all. So now we’re back to reality, the […]
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Thetford Forest
Seeing as I was over Cambridge way at the weekend I thought I’d drive the extra 40 minutes or so to Thetford Forest to check out some of the marked out mountain bike trails over there. As well as some basic routes for all the family there are a couple of purpose built MTB trails, […]