Category Archives: Sport

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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 →

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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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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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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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Let Them Eat Cobbles

4 Apr Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. 2 Comments.

Marie Antoinette is reported to have said “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” (‘Let Them Eat Cake‘), showing her oblivious ignorance to the famine of the breadless poor. Something in this I can relate to in my current lifestyle as stupidly-busy dad / web developer / … Read More →