Category Archives: GPS Activities

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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 →

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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 →

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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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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 →

Ed Clancy, Colne GP 2011

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 →