22 laps, about 46 miles in total. It was a lovely day with no wind. I was old enough to be the grandparent of a lot of the other riders It started out quick from the off and stayed quite quick & even though there were loads of attacks, nothing was able to get away […]
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TLI Criterium Championship 2nd September...
1 hour plus 3 laps (each lap was 2 minutes and a bit). Rode sensibly, didn’t chase any of the early stuff. I made an early decision i wasn’t doing anything till at least 45 minutes. I made just 1 attack after 50 minutes which stuck. Was away till 3 laps to go when Karl […]
Bickerstaffe RR 20th July 2023
Super 4, Bickerstaffe RR Time and again I get too carried away with myself in races, doing too much, covering too much and not being there at the pointy end of the day. Slowly but surely I am learning… ish. It was a nice, dry evening yesterday although with a stiff breeze. Once the lead […]
Ras Ffordd Llandyrnog
Ras Ffordd Llandyrnog Organised by the Ruthin CC on a rolling, triangular circuit near Ruthin and Denbigh, the weather was mild and dry but there was a strong headwind on the course, at the end of 4 laps there was a steady grind of a hill up to the finish. The race about 37 miles […]
Stone Wheelers Swynnerton RR
Lining up today were Sam, me, 2nd race Richard and newbie Alex all eager to get stuck in to the fast, flat closed road circuit. The race was run as a handicap & due to numbers I went in to the first group, we had about about 4.15 mins over the chasing group for a […]
Buxton CC mountain time trial 2nd Octobe...
A couple of weeks ago a dear friend and clubmate mentioned they had entered the Buxton CC mountain time trial and wouldn’t it be a good idea if I entered as well as it is so much friendlier with 2. The event offers two distances; 33 miles over 3 laps and 22 miles over 2 […]
UCLAN 27th May 2021
Matt, Jeff and me all rode at UCLAN tonight, a first time for Jeff and I. It was the best evening of the year from a weather point of view; warm and with a gentle breeze. Matt and Jeff were in the Big Boy race and I was in the Old Man race so I […]
Pimbo 23rd May 2021
Matt and I rode the 2,3,4 Return to Racing BC event today at Pimbo, 16 laps of a fairly flat circuit around an industrial estate totalling about 35 miles. There was a full field of 60, the majority of which were young enough to be my children. The circuit is a real power course. The […]
Salt Ayre 11th May 2021
Matt and I raced at Salt Ayre on Tuesday night, it was mild and the rain stayed off although the circuit was a bit damp so we couldn’t go flat out around the bends. It is a short, flat circuit and surrounded by trees so there was not a lot of wind either. A full […]
Steady schlep to sleepy Sleap
In an effort to pretend that life is still normal, a small, disparate group of us have taken to convening on a Sunday morning for a long non clubrun club run. Last weekend was officially classed as, ‘hilly’ and so it seemed only fair that this weekend should be in the, ‘flat’ category. During the […]
Loggerheads 5th January 2020. I did it M...
So, my comeback that refuses to comeback continues…. On Friday I had a prawn sandwich for lunch from a little cafe in north Manchester and a short while later started to feel rough. I got really sweaty, went home, went to bed and later on Friday evening was sick. I then didn’t eat till Saturday […]
Manchester Regional Track League 22nd No...
Since last Friday I have really piled in the training (not), a club run, a gym session, some efforts on the turbo and some core work. Sensibly (unusual for me) I am getting back in to it slowly so as not to do myself in. In any case some work has been done and so […]