Cold… blowing rain with a strong north-westerly wind. The exposed hillside on the edge of a motor racing circuit. The grass is saturated and worn to a brown mess with much in common with 1917 Flanders. I can’t feel my hands – any part of … Read More →
Category Archives: Sport
White Handlebar Tape and Cyclocross
Just came across a few photos from last year’ cyclocross races in January. In the national championships, I’d decided that white bar tape was the way to go. The muddier it gets, the better white bar tape looks. Let’s face it, everything gets utterly filthy … Read More →
Cyclocross National Trophy Round 2, Ipswich
A little treat away for 24 hours concentrating on bike racing. It makes a difference when you can spend a bit of time preparing more meticulously. I travelled down on Saturday evening to Ipswich to stay in an Alan Partridge-style travel inn and talked bikes … Read More →
A dream of a cyclocross weekend
What a dream weekend. I organised my second cyclocross race for Wheelbase at Outwood Park in Radcliffe on Saturday. Devising cycling courses is something that every little boy likes to do – I remember it on my first bike on the spare land next to … Read More →
Cyclocross National Trophy Round 1: Abergavenny Leisure Centre
As someone who didn’t enjoy the best cyclocross season last year, it came as welcome relief to come into round one of the national trophy today feeling a lot more positive and feeling generally a bit fitter. In terms of results, it probably translated into … Read More →
Not the Three Peaks
Well… Here I am in Ingleton on the last Saturday in September, the day before the Three Peaks cyclocross. Normally , this would be the day when I focused intensely on what I ate, how I rested, when I slept, and got my head into … Read More →
The 2007 cyclocross season kicks off at last
I’ve been holding out as usual with no planned cyclocross racing activity whilst I built up my bike carrying and endurance for the Three Peaks – the race that never was. I adjusted my mind to faster, shorter races over the last week and realised … Read More →
Light relief from the drudgery of life without the Three Peaks
Whole Youtube channel of these here… I think I’ll spend Sunday the 30th September going through them.
Grizedale Mountainbike Challenge 2007
Wow! I’d forgotten how good that felt. Today was my first Mountain Bike event since… erm.. about 1994. I seem to have got so caught up in other things that use up my time (a lot of which is cycling of one sort or another) … Read More →
The jagged teeth of hill reps
It may feel like utter death on toast when you’re doing it, and you swear you’l never do it again through the blood you’re coughing up each time you do it, but having a GPS with a heart rate monitor makes hill reps something interesting … Read More →