Quality Photos… this must mean Waugh
Geoff Waugh’s three peaks photos this year are all corkersClick here to view the sultry and rather cool monochrome slideshow before it rolls from the homepage of the website
Cyclocross National Trophy 2008 Round 2: Bicton Arena, Devon
I’m a bit late in blogging this; I should apologise really – I’ve been working… a truly dreadful thing and I really ought to get my priorities right. The 2008 national trophy series got underway in really bad style the other week in Abergavenny as documented; I was determined that the next round – with …
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Newsletter article from Matthew Pixton
Matthew Pixton returned to the race this year after a few years off it, and wrote this quick account for the Rossendale Harriers Stag-ger magazine..A fell runners’ bike race?Every year on the last Sunday of September two noble sports combine in a blu…
EXCLUSIVE: Trevor Page’s blog for 3pcx.blogspot.com
Trevor Page, Lune RC and the 2008 Three Peaks’ first crash victim tells his tale exclusively for you here on the three peaks cyclocross blog!This year my preparation was steady. I hadn’t done any running but a few road and mtb races in the preceding…
EXCLUSIVE: Leanne Thompson’s blog for 3pcx.blogspot.com
Many thanks to Leanne Thompson of the Lune RC for this report:It’s hard not to get obsessive about the 3 peaks cyclo-cross when you’re in the same room as Phil Haygarth, so as he is staying in our house (myself and Trev Page) for a few days during …
National Trophy anticlimax!
It’s a bit of an odd one this year… I’ve been intensely focused on the preparation for the Three Peaks this year – almost always the first big race of the season, when all of a sudden, they add another National Trophy race to the calendar. Just on a weekend when i really should be …
A reconnaissance trip, and meeting my first pen pal.
A great day yesterday indulging my hobby by going to do a recce of parts of the route for the Three Peaks cyclocross, which’ll take place a week on Sunday. Whilst I’ve ridden the course 11 times, it’s always worth a recce on certain parts of the course because the nature of the upland paths …
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Train for pain
I’ve spent the last few weeks getting myself back into off-road cycling in readiness for the cyclocross season. It’s slightly strange this year as there’s a National Trophy race the weekend before the Three Peaks cyclocross. As some of you will know, I’m a bit nuts about the Three Peaks race and whilst I don’t …
Too busy to blog
It’s a sad state of affairs when you get too busy to blog. Considering we haven’t been away this summer, it’s been pretty hectic. Obviously, having a new(ish) baby about the place is a good reason to keep my fingers off the keyboard in non-work time, but it also seems to have just been a …
The advantages of spectating
I had a cracking day out on Saturday with Elvis. Katie dropped us off at Ribblehead to watch the Three Peaks race which I wasn’t competing in again this year, and the build-up to the leaders of the 740 racers coming through led to an electric atmosphere. When the first few leaders had come through, …
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 that I needed to get some fast racing in before …
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All revved up
In a final installment of moaning about this year’s cancellation of the Three Peaks Cyclocross, I’ve made a little tune based upon some very appropriate words from a certain M. Loaf.