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2011 Summer Hols part 2: Menorca

9 Aug Filed under Blog, Family Photos, GPS Activities, Video. No comments.

A holiday is a holiday is a holiday. This was just a great opportunity to get away from work, home, routine, and all that stuff and have a lovely time together.  It’s very straightforward.  For that reason alone it was simply superb.

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Love/Hate Relationship: The Mary Towneley Loop

28 Jul Filed under Blog, Google Earth, GPS Activities, Mountains, Sport. No comments.

It’s one of those rides.  One of those ‘have to do it every so often’ rides.  One that you look forward to and dread in equal measure.  The Mary Towneley Loop is a 44 mile extension to the Pennine Bridleway and is a doorstep challenge … Read More →

Haygarths on Holiday

2011 Summer Hols part 1: Old Beckstones

27 Jul Filed under Blog, Family Photos, GPS Activities. No comments.

After a massive stint of work it’s now full-on holidays for a couple of weeks. The first time that I’ve taken more than two consecutive days’ leave since October 2010 and it’s a game of two halves. Some UK time first then a bit sun … Read More →

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New love means increased virility

15 Jul Filed under Blog, GPS Activities, Sport. 2 Comments.

A new bike is such a treat. It seems to rekindle an existing love. A bike ride that’s too local and familiar to be fun suddenly takes on an utterly new dimension.  It’s like that early period of a new love in your life when … Read More →

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Faster all the time

14 Jul Filed under Blog, GPS Activities, Sport. 2 Comments.

Keep hearing the likes of David Millar and other authoritative names in the professional cycling world talking about how bike racing is getting faster and faster. It’s sometimes hard to grasp these things, and indeed to say whether such things are hear say or recieved … Read More →

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Mum’s 70th birthday

10 Jul Filed under Blog, Family Photos. 1 Comment.

My mum reached a very respectable 3 score and ten yesterday and we went up to Kirkby Lonsdale today to enjoy some lovely weather, cakes, food, and company. It seemed very strange but incredibly rewarding to meet a few people from mum’s life that I … Read More →

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3 peaks shoulder

1 Jul Filed under Blog, Sport. 1 Comment.

n. Medical Term. An impairment of health or a condition inflicted by carrying a bicycle up steep hillsides repeatedly, in obsessive manner.

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Planes drew kisses

14 Jun Filed under Blog. No comments.

I love this when it happens for some reason. Inspired to snap this whilst out on my bike on Scout Moor last night and it always makes me think of the Cinerama lyrics from the song ‘Airborne’ “I was watching you from the observation deck … Read More →

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Summer Made Me Cross

3 Jun Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. No comments.

Just a quick bikey update… It’s been a slightly unorthadox ‘summer’ so far for me on the bike (I mean summer in that context as being after the clocks change!). Started okay at the SiS Crits round the fast 1 mile circuit at Preston.

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Elsie – Three as a bird

3 Jun Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles. No comments.

They all grow up fast, don’t they. Elsie’s third birthday last week seemed to mark a bit more ‘moving on’ in the household and confirmed any suspicion that time goes by ridiculously fast in life. It fell on a ‘normal’ work day for Katie, a … Read More →