Category Archives: Blog

Cyclocross, Shrewsbury

Don’t get ‘cross? Get even.

16 Jan Filed under Blog, Sport, Video. No comments.

January 15th: The year has ended. The last cyclocross race of the season and all too soon it’s time to hang up the racing wheels and have a few months of more bike fun and less training.  A glass half full person like me never … Read More →

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Tod ‘Cross: Good old Yorkshire Chipps and Gravy

3 Jan Filed under Blog, GPS Activities, Sport. No comments.

Rode the Todmorden Cyclocross yesterday – it’s the fourth running since the event’s revival, and it has earnt its place on the legendary races calendar (it’s currently an imaginary calendar but you get the picture). I’m trying to blog a bit less about every single … Read More →

Off Camber

When it (nearly) all comes good

11 Dec Filed under Blog, Sport. No comments.

Just had a great day out on the bike. I’ve accepted that a great day out for me these days doesn’t equate to a win… those days have moved quietly away… but greatness is so easily measured in other ways when your glass is half … Read More →

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Cross Roads

1 Dec Filed under Blog, GPS Activities, Sport. 2 Comments.

Alan Dorrington and I had a neat little hilly bike ride today over some ace roads on the rim of Calderdale – some of my fave roads in the area. But with a cheeky little twist… we thought we’d ride our ‘cross bikes with slick … Read More →

Wheelbase Cycling Team

An amazing few years – thank you, Wheelbase

10 Nov Filed under Blog, Sport. 5 Comments.

I joined Team Wheelbase in 2005 and will be racing for another team very soon (more on that will follow shortly). It’s the strangest feeling to move on from wearing the black and green kit – there have been some amazing highlights in the last … Read More →

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Raphaissance

15 Oct Filed under Blog, Sport. 1 Comment.

It’s too much of a rubbish cliché to talk of renaissance in cyclocross.  Effectively it’s inaccurate, too.  Cyclocross in our country has quite simply never been more popular. Rider numbers, spectator numbers, bike sales… the whole thing. It’s pretty much there now and has been for 3 or 4 … Read More →

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Personal Worst: 3 Peaks Cyclocross 2011

26 Sep Filed under Blog, GPS Activities, Mountains, Sport. 7 Comments.

I had a bad sleep last night.  My clavicle broken into two pieces is reasonably easy to get comfortable when I’m upright and in a sling, but lying in bed it’s hard to.  But that’s what this is about, to an extent… getting comfort and … Read More →

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Once more unto the bogs

22 Sep Filed under Blog, Sport. 4 Comments.

A quick moment to gather my thoughts before the big off in the 3 peaks cyclocross on Sunday.  It’s an annual pattern of familiar routine always peppered with new things each year to distract me.  The basic sectors of the 3 peaks preparation are complex … Read More →

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As one door closes… another one opens

18 Sep Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Sport. 5 Comments.

“My” day of cyclocross: Rode well, steady start, faded a bit, kicked into a good rhythm after ten mins, then after 40 mins my bike was trashed and the race was over.  It doesn’t sound too good does it. Not even with my rose coloured … Read More →

Lily is Nine

6 Sep Filed under Blog, Family Photos. 1 Comment.

My little Lily turned nine today – stunningly quickly … as these things go … Elsie jumped in to Lily’s bed extra early and we opened a couple of pressies and cards – but on her return to School Day we decided to leave the … Read More →