http://www.minnellium.com Dave Haygarth, family and friends. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:43:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.minnellium.com/2012/01/dont-get-cross-get-even/ http://www.minnellium.com/2012/01/dont-get-cross-get-even/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:20:14 +0000 Dave Haygarth http://www.minnellium.com/?p=6999 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 …]]> http://www.minnellium.com/2012/01/dont-get-cross-get-even/feed/ 0 http://www.minnellium.com/2012/01/tod-cross-good-old-yorkshire-chipps-and-gravy/ http://www.minnellium.com/2012/01/tod-cross-good-old-yorkshire-chipps-and-gravy/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:01:36 +0000 Dave Haygarth http://www.minnellium.com/?p=6980 http://www.minnellium.com/2012/01/tod-cross-good-old-yorkshire-chipps-and-gravy/feed/ 0 http://www.minnellium.com/2011/12/when-it-nearly-all-comes-good/ http://www.minnellium.com/2011/12/when-it-nearly-all-comes-good/#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:55:28 +0000 Dave Haygarth http://www.minnellium.com/?p=6960 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 …]]> http://www.minnellium.com/2011/12/when-it-nearly-all-comes-good/feed/ 0 http://www.minnellium.com/2011/12/cross-roads/ http://www.minnellium.com/2011/12/cross-roads/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:23:58 +0000 Dave Haygarth http://www.minnellium.com/?p=6957 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 …]]> http://www.minnellium.com/2011/12/cross-roads/feed/ 2 http://www.minnellium.com/2011/11/an-amazing-few-years-thank-you-wheelbase/ http://www.minnellium.com/2011/11/an-amazing-few-years-thank-you-wheelbase/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:40:15 +0000 Dave Haygarth http://www.minnellium.com/?p=6941 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 …]]> http://www.minnellium.com/2011/11/an-amazing-few-years-thank-you-wheelbase/feed/ 5 http://www.minnellium.com/2011/10/raphaissance/ http://www.minnellium.com/2011/10/raphaissance/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:58:47 +0000 Dave Haygarth http://www.minnellium.com/?p=6932 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 …]]> http://www.minnellium.com/2011/10/raphaissance/feed/ 1 http://www.minnellium.com/2011/09/personal-worst-3-peaks-cyclocross-2011/ http://www.minnellium.com/2011/09/personal-worst-3-peaks-cyclocross-2011/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:51:47 +0000 Dave Haygarth http://www.minnellium.com/?p=6810 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 …]]> http://www.minnellium.com/2011/09/personal-worst-3-peaks-cyclocross-2011/feed/ 7 http://www.minnellium.com/2011/09/once-more-unto-the-bogs/ http://www.minnellium.com/2011/09/once-more-unto-the-bogs/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:20:53 +0000 Dave Haygarth http://www.minnellium.com/?p=6804 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 …]]> http://www.minnellium.com/2011/09/once-more-unto-the-bogs/feed/ 4 http://www.minnellium.com/2011/09/as-one-door-closes-another-one-opens/ http://www.minnellium.com/2011/09/as-one-door-closes-another-one-opens/#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:33:44 +0000 Dave Haygarth http://www.minnellium.com/?p=6788 “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 …]]> http://www.minnellium.com/2011/09/as-one-door-closes-another-one-opens/feed/ 5 http://www.minnellium.com/2011/09/lily-is-nine/ http://www.minnellium.com/2011/09/lily-is-nine/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:39:10 +0000 Dave Haygarth http://www.minnellium.com/2011/09/lily-is-nine/ http://www.minnellium.com/2011/09/lily-is-nine/feed/ 1