Category Archives: Sport

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Liver Hill Fell Race 2011

29 Mar Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles, Sport. No comments.

Was revved up for tonight’s Liver Hill race in Rawtenstall – the local ‘my oh my the clocks have just gone forward and we can do something in the evening‘ event.  Having races here last year in pretty nasty boggy conditions, I was looking forward … Read More →

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Today’s lesson: Learn

1 Mar Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. No comments.

Had a very satisfying ride out today with Matthew and Ed Oxley. Arranged ages ago it was a bit of a longshot that the weather would turn out so darned lovely, but it did. When you take a punt on the weather like that and … Read More →

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Cart, sleigh & horse: Cyclocross season reviewed

1 Mar Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. 1 Comment.

I’ve been a bit low on finding the time to blog the last few months.  In some ways the world’s moved on. I don’t need to paste a link to a video or anything on this blog anymore because the sharing thing’s taken care of … Read More →

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Selfless devotion to family

20 Feb Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Google Earth, Sport. 1 Comment.

Sometimes in life it’s time to stop doing what you enjoy, and pay some dedicated time to other family members. With young families, my brother in law Simon and I get very little time together and no quality time to speak of in the last … Read More →

Everything’s gonna be all Whyte

8 Feb Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. 1 Comment.

Interesting project on at the moment on behalf the design team for Whyte Bikes. Ian (who works on product design there) and I go back a long way and given my boundless enthusiasm for cyclocross (and what younger people might call ‘experience’), I’m starting to … Read More →

Ronde van Oost Lancashire 2011

Ronde Van Oost Lancashire

28 Jan Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. 1 Comment.

Very much looking forward to the second running of the Ronde Van Oost Lancashire on the 2nd April this year. Friend Alan’s organised it again using the same route as the first Ronde in 2010. Named and themed after the Ronde Van Vlaanderen (or Tour … Read More →

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A weekend of Cyclocross and Music

6 Dec Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. 2 Comments.

This weekend was another one of those ‘pinch yourself’ ones for me. Those of you who know me will get the picture: Saturday: Play guitar in the band, Sunday: Race cyclocross.

Lily Cyclocross in Northwich

The Autumn of my Life

26 Oct Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles, Sport, Video. 2 Comments.

Had a wonderful few reasons to reflect on this time of year in the last few days. Autumn’s a strange time of year in its gentle onset of cruelty, as we lose the evening daylight, and the warmth of each day dies out. But it … Read More →

Simon Fell, Ingleborough

Three Peaks Cyclocross 2010

27 Sep Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. 12 Comments.

Here’s a conundrum of sorts.  What do you do when you have to race a bike down hills like this as fast as you can and have a front brake that looks like this.  With a level head, you might be forgiven for making a … Read More →

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In readiness… 3 Peaks time of year again

23 Sep Filed under Featured Articles, Sport. 1 Comment.

Seems to have flown by this year. Kept busy by exercise, workloads, 40th birthdays spread over a few months, and some lovely holidays, the period since the 2009 3 Peaks Cyclocross seems to have flown by. My preparation over the last few weeks has been … Read More →