Category Archives: Sport

MTB Ride: Mary Townley Loop

9 Jun Filed under Featured Articles, Google Earth, Sport. 5 Comments.

Had a lovely day today. My training rides these days tend to be not much more than an hour in length. This has its advantages – you can go out and totally hammer yourself for an hour or so and get all the training benefit; … Read More →

Nick Craig: A Vet, but not done yet

20 May Filed under Contributed, Sport.

Image ©Richard Seipp 2009Just browsing through some fell running results and I see that 3 Peaks legend Nick Craig has been posting some of his best ever fell running results this year. This from the supposedly full-time bike rider.See some of his rec...

Lee Quarry Mountainbike Race… but just watching

4 May Filed under Sport. No comments.

It comes to us all I hear.. spectating rather than doing.

Jebb’s peaks domination continues

30 Apr Filed under Contributed, Sport.

Robb Jebb's seven three peaks cyclocross victories would be enough for most mortals, but it seems he can't get enough.In this year's three peaks race (the running race, that is), Rob completing the 55th running of the 24 mile course in 2 hours, 54 minu...

Ballet on a bike

23 Apr Filed under Sport, Video. 1 Comment.

I’ve been sent this three times now in the last two days – it just makes me gasp with utter pleasure – even Katie likes it. “It’s like Ballet on bikes” was her comment. The best mountainbike video ever?? a strong contender.

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Broken left collarbone and 7 lug stitches

19 Apr Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. 11 Comments.

Not a very good day on the bike really. It was meant to be a relaxed reintroduction to mountainbike racing after ages off the sport but it turned out to be 20 minutes racing then a trip to Fairfield hospital via Mountain Rescue Land Rover … Read More →

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Lily-Livered… Lily does the U11s Liver Hill fell race

31 Mar Filed under Featured Articles, Sport. 2 Comments.

A very proud pushy dad here… Lily did her first running race this evening at Marl Pitts – the junior event in the Liver Hill fell race. She was so excited – so was I. The course for juniors was (I’m guessing..) about a mile … Read More →

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Cannondale Six Carbon – my lovely new bike

27 Mar Filed under Art / Design, Featured Articles, Sport. 1 Comment.

Had the great pleasure of building up my new bike from Wheelbase on Wednesday night. Just waiting for a slighly nicer day than today to take it for a spin… it’s light, as it looks, and I’m sure it’s going to handle as well as … Read More →

Some photos from the 1980s

23 Mar Filed under Contributed, Sport.

Three great photos 'from the archives' here from Flickr - all from a user called Fleming2009 (I think I should know what the first name is but it's been on the tip of my tongue for ages!)1 | 2 | 3

Mark Cavendish wins Milan San Remo!!!

21 Mar Filed under Sport. 1 Comment.

It may not mean that much to any non-cycling people out there, but seing Mark Cavendish win today’s Milan – San Remo has an enormous impact on me. For the first time in my life, I have seen a Brit win a classic cycle race.