Reading Time: < 1 minute1 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 […]
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Bickerstaffe RR 20th July 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutesSuper 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
Reading Time: 3 minutesRas 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
Reading Time: 2 minutesLining 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...
Reading Time: 6 minutesA 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
Reading Time: 2 minutesMatt, 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
Reading Time: 2 minutesMatt 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
Reading Time: 2 minutesMatt 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
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 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...
Reading Time: 5 minutesSo, 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...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSince 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 […]
Manchester Regional Track League 15th No...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome people would say that racing on no training and with less than zero percent fitness is a silly thing to do. I would entirely agree with them but my reasoning on taking the plunge so soon is that I really enjoy the track league, it gives me a good focus over the winter and […]