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	<description>...it&#039;s all about mountain biking.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I switch my light off and stand for a moment in the forest while my eyes adjust from the bright white of my bike lights to the silvery glow from the half moon high in the sky above me. Tonight is a beautiful night for ride. Stars twinkle in a crystal clear sky and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianbarrington.com&amp;blog=659838&amp;post=736&amp;subd=ianbarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianbarrington.com&amp;blog=659838&amp;post=727&amp;subd=ianbarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bear Bones 200 &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://ianbarrington.com/2011/10/19/bear-bones-200-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bikepacking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After an amazing run of weather for the Welsh Divide trip, I couldn&#8217;t believe my luck that the forecast was generally dry and sunny for the event. This played in my favour a bit as there were certain things I was prepared to sacrifice in terms of kit. However, clear sunny days also tend to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianbarrington.com&amp;blog=659838&amp;post=709&amp;subd=ianbarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bear Bones 200 &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I tell you about the Bear Bones 200, you need to know about some things from earlier in the year. In May this year, I took part in 3rd Welsh Ride Thing (WRT), which is a three day bikepacking and navigation event run in aid of Wales Air Ambulance. A series of checkpoints are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianbarrington.com&amp;blog=659838&amp;post=705&amp;subd=ianbarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Abstinence</title>
		<link>http://ianbarrington.com/2011/09/07/abstinence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve lost count of the number of days that have elapsed since I last rode my bike. Way back in August sometime, maybe, but I can&#8217;t be sure. We&#8217;re having some building work done at home and earlier in the year when the specification was being drawn up I took out a series of items. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianbarrington.com&amp;blog=659838&amp;post=674&amp;subd=ianbarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>mKettle Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently tried out an mKettle (on loan from Stuart) as an alternative to my usual meths stove that I take with me on bikepacking trips. Its first outing was on a short single night bivvy a few weeks ago. The real world test went like this: I&#8217;d planned to bivvy in a suitably exposed spot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianbarrington.com&amp;blog=659838&amp;post=664&amp;subd=ianbarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sophie</title>
		<link>http://ianbarrington.com/2011/07/19/sophie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A special post for a special little lady. Sophie was born at the end of March weighing 7lbs 13 ounces, in good health and with a full head of hair. She&#8217;s now up to 12 and half pounds, still with lots of hair and big beaming smiles. It&#8217;s a real treat to watch tiny babies grow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianbarrington.com&amp;blog=659838&amp;post=633&amp;subd=ianbarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Manifest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was time for a change. Something clean and simple. The clutter has been stripped away to reveal the things of greatest  importance: Words and Pictures. A large white space to challenge me to find the right words to paint the picture. The right picture to compliment the words. I like a challenge.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianbarrington.com&amp;blog=659838&amp;post=646&amp;subd=ianbarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arctic Adventure</title>
		<link>http://ianbarrington.com/2011/06/07/arctic-adventure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of November 2010, the prospect of a bivvy trip at the beginning of December didn&#8217;t seem out of the ordinary. At the time, temperatures were still in the middle teens, and it was dry. By the end of the same month, over night temperatures were regularly to minus 8 degrees Celsius, and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianbarrington.com&amp;blog=659838&amp;post=541&amp;subd=ianbarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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