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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For me travel is often a means to an end (escaping the fucked up life we&#8217;re all programmed to follow) rather than a need to see certain places or countries. The wish or need to travel comes in waves, sometimes a gentle swell fixed with a short holiday or overnighter. Sometimes the wish to escape [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shane Cycles Europe</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shane]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 10:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Spring 2022 I once again quit my job the get back to basics. The initial plan was to be on the road for three months starting in South West Portugal. Six months and 7700km later I finished the trip in Istanbul. The blog for this trip can be followed on my Polarsteps blog or on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Update 2020: A year of dealing with Cancer, Covid and all the other good stuff</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shane]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[~To enjoy the light you have to know the dark&#8230;.. &#160; &#160; A year ago this week I wrote this blog announcing to the world that I&#8217;d be offline for a while to have a real challenge. But, no matter how prepared you are to go into hell, it&#8217;s still hell. I&#8217;ve tried for months NOT [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The convenient puncture</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shane]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2019 07:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.&#8221; &#160; ~Hellen Keller Once upon a time during a weekend trip with a bike club I mentioned to Jim that I&#8217;d had an inconvenient puncture the previous day on the way to work. Jim laughed and said a puncture is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bikingman Oman race Pt 3</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shane]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was sleeping in the room next to Georgi so thought that a great tactic would be to lie on my back and snore for four hours keeping her awake then shoot off. &#8220;How long is too long?&#8221; was therefore 4 hours. Which would wake me at 1230, A relaxed breakfast then on the road by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bikingman Oman race Pt 2</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shane]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2019 13:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#8221; I’d drastically over achieved my wildest expectations for day one. I felt proud and content, all that was needed now was to consolidate it all with four hours sleep then hang in for three more days.&#8221; To read pt 1 first click &#62;&#62;HERE&#60;&#60; I&#8217;d set my countdown timer for 4 hours while brushing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bikingman Oman race Pt 1</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shane]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2019 18:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; In an age when unsupported Ultra endurance events in all shapes and sizes are popping up all over the place Bikingman Oman is the package tour of Endurance cycling races which includes:  Fixed published route with gps track and &#8220;survival map&#8221; showing food/water stops along the way. Mainly quiet main roads. Two manned checkpoints with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>2019 Plans : From slowly slowly to Ultra endurance racing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shane]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A man who has no imagination has no wings.&#8221; -Muhammad Ali &#160; In the weeks and months after last years Bikepacking Trans Germany race where I&#8217;d far out performed my own exceptions I found myself reflecting on the how and why of my transition from my beloved cycle touring to this non-sense of ultra endurance racing. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>In memory of Johann Rissik. A rogue, a Saint and someone to be more like.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shane]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2019 19:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few hours mountain climbing turns a rogue and a saint into two roughly equal creatures. Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity—and liberty is finally added by sleep. —Nietzsche &#160; As a literary barbarian I first read these words in 2011. They are the intro to Johann&#8217;s blog which I checked out just [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trans Germany (BTG): Pt 7</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shane]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Day 9 Monday Detlev, Patrick and myself had finished within an hour of each other the previous evening and all camped within a couple of kilometres of each other. My alarm went off at 4am and it was show time. I knew I probably had a two hour head start on Patrick, and if I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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