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		<title>Flashback Friday-ish: Cycle paths &#8211; important for keeping our aging population fit and well?</title>
		<link>https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2023/03/18/flashback-friday-ish-cycle-paths-important-for-keeping-our-aging-population-fit-and-well/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[cmih2]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2023/03/18/flashback-friday-ish-cycle-paths-important-for-keeping-our-aging-population-fit-and-well/" title="Flashback Friday-ish: Cycle paths &#8211; important for keeping our aging population fit and well?" rel="nofollow"><img width="150" height="150" src="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bridge_on_railway_cycleway_sth_of_wairakei-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="float: left; margin-right: 5px;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" srcset="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bridge_on_railway_cycleway_sth_of_wairakei-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bridge_on_railway_cycleway_sth_of_wairakei-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" /></a><p><em>It says something about the crazy busy week I&#8217;ve just had that even managing to do a regular Flashback Friday on time (let alone any other blogpost) escaped me. So as I finally get some R&#38;R time on the weekend, </em>&#8230;</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Help support a new Community Pump Track</title>
		<link>https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2021/11/27/help-support-a-new-community-pump-track/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[LennyBoy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2021 20:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycle infrastructure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Children cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics & Funding]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2021/11/27/help-support-a-new-community-pump-track/" title="Help support a new Community Pump Track" rel="nofollow"><img width="150" height="150" src="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/velosolutions-pump-track-cambridge-nz-150x150.jpeg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="float: left; margin-right: 5px;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" /></a><p>Here&#8217;s a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL_3dKC97zE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">request</a> from the North Avon Chch BMX Club  that&#8217;s well worth looking at:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Hi. Any chance you can post about our funding push. Massive support required for this community <a href="https://www.bicycling.com/rides/a20027671/how-to-ride-a-pump-track/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pump Track</a>, that is going to be massive! </em>&#8230;</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Flashback Friday: Cycling and Hills</title>
		<link>https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2021/01/29/flashback-friday-cycling-and-hills/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[LennyBoy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2021/01/29/flashback-friday-cycling-and-hills/" title="Flashback Friday: Cycling and Hills" rel="nofollow"><img width="150" height="150" src="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Downhill-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="float: left; margin-right: 5px;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /></a><p><em>Life seems a little bit crazy busy right now for me, which explains why I haven&#8217;t managed to get a few new blog posts out the door lately (a couple of interesting consultations floating around right now &#8211; watch this </em>&#8230;</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Flashback Friday: How did a 50-year-old get back into cycling?</title>
		<link>https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2020/09/25/flashback-friday-how-did-a-50-year-old-get-back-into-cycling/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cycling in Chch (Guest)]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2020 19:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2020/09/25/flashback-friday-how-did-a-50-year-old-get-back-into-cycling/" title="Flashback Friday: How did a 50-year-old get back into cycling?" rel="nofollow"><img width="150" height="150" src="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Vita-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="float: left; margin-right: 5px;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Vita-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Vita-300x300.jpg 300w, https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Vita.jpg 402w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" /></a><p><em>As someone who is veering rather close to his 50th birthday soon, I am glad that I have activities like biking to help keep me in good shape as I get older. I&#8217;ve been biking essentially most of my adult </em>&#8230;</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Guest Post: A Cycling Dogma</title>
		<link>https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2016/05/22/guest-post-a-cycling-dogma/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cycling in Chch (Guest)]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2016 01:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Benefits of cycling]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2016/05/22/guest-post-a-cycling-dogma/" title="Guest Post: A Cycling Dogma" rel="nofollow"></a><p><em>Guest blogger <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150908021555/http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/Lincoln-Home/News-and-Events/Gearing-up-to-bring-Bike-Share-to-campus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Catherine</a> shares some of her thoughts about the key factors that influence her daily choice to commute by bike:</em></p>
<p>I developed a cycling dogma! It&#8217;s taken time to create, but here it is:</p>
<p>Cycling offers me freedom like &#8230;</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cycling and Hills</title>
		<link>https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2013/11/08/cycling-and-hills/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[LennyBoy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2013 21:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2013/11/08/cycling-and-hills/" title="Cycling and Hills" rel="nofollow"><img width="150" height="150" src="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Downhill-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="float: left; margin-right: 5px;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /></a><p>So I&#8217;m in my <a title="Cycling to/from New Places" href="/cycling-routes/cycling-tofrom-new-places/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new home</a> now and it&#8217;s slightly up into the Port Hills. This means a speedy ride downhill at the start of the day, but a little bit of a climb at the end (only 400m of &#8230;</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Guest Post: How did a 50-year-old get back into cycling?</title>
		<link>https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2013/07/30/guest-post-how-did-a-50-year-old-get-back-into-cycling/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cycling in Chch (Guest)]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2013/07/30/guest-post-how-did-a-50-year-old-get-back-into-cycling/" title="Guest Post: How did a 50-year-old get back into cycling?" rel="nofollow"><img width="150" height="150" src="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Vita-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="float: left; margin-right: 5px;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Vita-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Vita-300x300.jpg 300w, https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Vita.jpg 402w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" /></a><p><em>Here&#8217;s another guest blog, this time by a recent convert to riding, Robyn M. Speed:</em></p>
<p>I blame my son, Andy.</p>
<p>It’s a bit unfair to blame him really, when it all came about because he crashed his bike on the &#8230;</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cycle paths &#8211; important for keeping our aging population fit and well?</title>
		<link>https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2012/09/11/cycle-paths-important-for-keeping-our-aging-population-fit-and-well/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[cmih2]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/2012/09/11/cycle-paths-important-for-keeping-our-aging-population-fit-and-well/" title="Cycle paths &#8211; important for keeping our aging population fit and well?" rel="nofollow"><img width="150" height="150" src="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bridge_on_railway_cycleway_sth_of_wairakei-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="float: left; margin-right: 5px;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bridge_on_railway_cycleway_sth_of_wairakei-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cyclingchristchurch.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bridge_on_railway_cycleway_sth_of_wairakei-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" /></a><p>Separated cycle paths are an important part of a cycle network because they can help people get the cycling bug and to build their confidence to cycle and to manage in traffic.</p>
<p>My mother (currently in her mid 70s)  had &#8230;</p>]]></description>
		
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