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		<title>A day of extremes</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/10/a-day-of-extremes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It started waking up under the road and ended camping in a far flung desert in a remote part of far Western China.  As with the journey, it was what happened in between that defined it. The previous afternoon, I had rolled my sleeping mat out in the confines of a concrete culvert.  It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>24th September 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/09/24th-september-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends of the Cycle Strongman: Remember this date. A few days from now people all over the world will come together to say enough is enough. We want action on Climate Change and need to make our voices heard.  This expedition is about helping foster the inspiration needed to make this change.  And that change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting against a surging tide of pessimism &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/08/fighting-against-a-surging-tide-of-pessimism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/08/fighting-against-a-surging-tide-of-pessimism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had exhausted just about every option.  A bureaucratic roadblock stretched from the Indian Ocean, 3500 kilometres northward, all the way along the mighty Indus River to the highest peaks of the Himalayas.  This was a hurdle that, no matter how much strength I could muster, would be difficult to overcome. There&#8217;s only one way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweeping Generalisations</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/07/sweeping-generalisations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps one of the prerequisites for visiting India should be a question such as, “Are you prepared?”  It would be a good question.  “For what?” they would naturally reply, to which there is no answer worth explaining.   If you say “Yes”, you get the visa. &#160; India needs to be felt to be experienced.  It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newspaper Mamma</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2011/02/newspaper-mamma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked to write a small 500-word feature for a small newspaper in Bhutan based on &#8216;seven&#8217;.  It could be anything, as long as it had something to do with the number 7.  After some careful thought and reflection on the expedition thus far, I decided to share a more personal account of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Key to Lhasa</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2010/08/the-key-to-lhasa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting into Tibet is tricky business.  Actually, it&#8217;s not so tricky if you have money, something which I needed to spread very thinly for the long journey ahead.  I learned the difference between what I actually needed (which turned out to be very little) and what I wanted (which was to  become less and less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The hardy back roads of Laos &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2010/06/the-hardy-back-roads-of-laos-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2010/06/the-hardy-back-roads-of-laos-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; continued from a previous post. In the valleys, I pushed my bike across the gravelly river beds and usually ended up giving Ruby (the bike) and myself a bath at the same time.  Fortunately, with the airtight panniers, the bike could float across if need be but, being the middle of the dry season [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The hardy back roads of Laos &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2010/06/the-hardy-back-roads-of-laos-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2010/06/the-hardy-back-roads-of-laos-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With an unusual rattling sound, followed by a &#8216;tink, tink, tink&#8217; and a loud &#8216;SNAP!&#8217;, I knew I was in trouble.  It was coming from the rear wheel and I hoped that it wasn&#8217;t anything major.  The roads were some of the most gruelling I&#8217;d experienced on the expedition to date and both myself and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections &#8211; A Year On</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2010/03/reflections-a-year-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whew, a year on the road already!  It goes quick. Recently I celebrated the first year (of many) on the road, not with a &#8216;POP!&#8217; from an expensive champagne bottle, nor blowing out the flame of a single candle, but with a day just like every other.  It led to the expression of thoughts and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The push into the Himalayas</title>
		<link>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2010/02/the-push-into-the-himalayas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cyclestrongman.com/2010/02/the-push-into-the-himalayas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cyclestrongman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A BIG hello to all my friends and family from Northern Thailand! Updates The Cycle Strongman Expedition (CSX) is in full steam and approaching its second year. Hard to believe that a nearly a year ago I pedalled from Newcastle, Australia full of enthusiasm with a bold ambition to cycle the globe! Today I am [...]]]></description>
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