Seeing the Nagle Mountains Through New Eyes, And Hearing It Through New Ears
I only just came back, just under two hours ago, from a cycle to the Nagle Mountains. So, today I’m going to try something interesting. Usually my cycling blogposts about a specific trip don’t get written until, at the soonest, a day later, and at the latest several years later…
Am I Getting Older Or Are the Hills Just Getting Steeper?
Okay it’s probably best to humour me. So you could say: “No Colm, you’re as physically fit as you were five years ago, those mean old hills played a trick on you. And I know you’ll still be a cycling superstar fifty years from now!” Why aren’t you saying that?…
A Most Excellent Cycle To Kilcrea Castle And Ballincollig Regional Park
The weather is getting better and it’s time to get out a lot more. This time of year can actually be a bit bittersweet for me, because I have quite bad travel anxiety. During the Winter I don’t mind not traveling anywhere, because, it’s Winter. I think, like many people,…
Do You Find Something Comical About My Appearance When I Am Cycling My Bike?
As I get older, I am noticing more and more people have what I call a Simpsons deficiency. About twenty years ago, everyone would have gotten what the title of this post was a reference to. But now, things have changed, too many people are Simpsons deficient. And if you’re…
A Most Pleasant And Relaxing Cycle To Bridgetown Priory, Except For That Hill Where I Thought I Might Conk Out
April 2017 was a great month for my cycling. I was working in a place where I only worked Monday to Wednesday, so what I would often do was, get up early on the Thursday, go on an adventure, and have a three day weekend to recover from my excursion.…
My Fears And Hopes For 2024
2023 was a strange beast of a year. It marks some of the best experiences of my life, but also, if not the worst experiences, at least some very bad ones. So I don’t know what this post will be like, I’m thinking it might lie somewhere between coherent and…
A Hard Cycle Back From Corrin Hill
Content Warning: Anxiety and Panic Attacks In 2019, a few weeks before I did the most difficult cycle I ever did, I talk about that here: I did a cycle to Corrin Hill that was quite difficult. (It was the cycle back from Corrin Hill that was difficult, not the…
My Only Non Repeating Cycle, To the Wonderful Carrigadrohid Castle
11th May 2017, Carrigadrohid Castle. I think this is probably the best non-astronomy drawing I ever did. Full discloser, I can’t actually spell Carrigadrohid. Many instances of me writing the word in this blogpost will be me copying and pasting the word. It’s possible by the end of the blogpost…
How Physical Exercise Helps My Mental Health
Content Warning: Fears of health problems, disease, and death will be discussed. I’ve had some degree of health anxiety all my life. I remember reacting with fear to what turned out to be fairly trivial symptoms since at least I was a teenager. But from the latter part of 2012…
I Can’t Let Anything Go, Repeating My Failed Cycle In the Hope of Succeeding This Time
So if you’ve read my previous cycling blogpost: You’ll know that I could not let the fact that there was one cycle I didn’t complete go. It was like my white whale, except, you know considerably safer than chasing a white whale. I was going to repeat the cycle, taking…
My Only Unsuccessful Cycling Trip
Before I start I hear you saying, (Yes, I can hear you, but that’s not the subject I want to talk about today.) “How do you even define an unsuccessful cycling trip? If you grew as a person during the trip, wasn’t that a successful trip? If you made some…
Poor Planning, Hubris, And A Forest I Hope Never To Return To
So it was 2015, I’d been cycling for over a year, and I wanted a new adventure. I found something that peaked my interest on Google maps. About twenty miles north of where I lived, on the left hand side of the road was Glenagear wood, and on the right…
The Boatiest Cycle I Ever Did
You’ve read about the hardest cycle I’ve ever did (assuming you’re read my other blogposts, it was presumptous of me to assume that but I did it anyway.) Then, in what may have been the most anticlimatic way of putting out blogposts ever, you read about the second hardest cycle…
The Easiest Cycle I Ever Did
So I cycled fifty metres down the road to test if the breaks were properly set up. And that was the easiest cycle I ever did. I hope you enjoyed this blogpost, have a nice day. Oh okay, I suppose to not make reading this post a complete waste of…
The Twentieth Cycle to the Nagle Mountains
I’ve been cycling to the Nagle Mountains since the year 2014. And I found this mountain range by sheer chance. One day I was just looking around places to the north of Cork city on Google Maps, and to my surprise there was a mountain range there, that I had…
The Most Moderately Difficult Cycle I Ever Did
I’ve talked about the most difficult cycle I ever did: At the risk of being anti-climatic after that, I talked about the second most difficult cycle I ever did: Now, at the risk of being even more anti-climatic again, I am going to talk about, the most moderately difficult cycle…
The Second Toughest Cycle I Ever Did
My brain is being overactive, much like the Duracell bunny, so I’ve decided to do another blog post, even though my last blog post was yesterday. This is on the second most difficult cycle I ever did. So why did I do my first cycling blogpost on my toughest cycle?…
The Toughest Cycle I Ever Did
I’ve been big into cycling since 2014. It begun when I sprained my ankle, and I was terrified to run on my ankle for a few months, afraid the injury hadn’t fully healed, I decided to get into a new method of physical exercise, and that was the bike because…
Ponderings Of An Autist 