Category Archives: Turf

Regular visitors to Planet Gary may have noticed that I’ve mentioned on various occasions that I’ve lost much of my enthusiasm for turfing. I’ve taken all the easy medals, taken most of the unique zones that don’t require travel to … Continue reading →

Watched The Adventure Show on the BBC iPlayer last night. The rather attractive Amy Irons along with Duncan McCallum (who admits only having been out on a gravel bike for a total of three hours) were down in the Galloway … Continue reading →

Well folks, I’ve finally set myself something of a wee turf challenge, or mission. Okay, it’s might not be that much of a mission but should be interesting and fun all the same. My mission is to take 26 zones … Continue reading →

I feel wholly and totally inadequate. The other day I took some time away from turfing to allow me to recover from the mammoth, at least as far as I was concerned, turfing session the previous evening as I sought, … Continue reading →

Over the past few weeks my zone count has been holding steady around the 200 mark, even creeping above 250 at times. And this always leads me to thinking about that elusive and challenging Greed-350 medal. But the main issue … Continue reading →

Back on Turf Blog 22-09-22 I mentioned that I’d purchased new bicycle lights, a pair of Hope Vision R2 Epic LED lights, at a cost of £160.00 each. And yes, while you pick yourself off the floor having fallen from … Continue reading →

It was a big turf day yesterday. Six hours in the saddle, 103 zones taken and 45 miles under Ogre’s wheels. Not a brilliant ratio of takes to time taken and miles covered but most of the zones were unique … Continue reading →

Having managed to reduce my Eager Ferret time from 9:01 to 7:56, achieved on the Loanhead Ferret Run, down by a whopping 65 seconds, I started to wonder just how I was going to manage to get it down even … Continue reading →

I’ve just got back from the opticians in Edinburgh. Needed them to check out my eyes after two short episodes of double vision the other day. Nothing found out of the ordinary, at least nothing unexpected for my age, so … Continue reading →