Skip to main content

Holt (Short Run) – 22nd July 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sorry for the delay in this week’s blog, Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins took over my Sunday afternoon. As I’m also rubbish at remembering to take photos, this one of Wiggo seems more apt on what was a very special day. Sun (yes that stuff in the sky which is shiny and dead warm) greeted […]

Alternative Weaver Valley club run Sunda...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Kev and I had arranged to meet Chris and Matt Gilbertson, and Benn Jones, for a club run with a difference – it would start in Morzine, in the French Alps.  Chris had suggested we should ride a circular route to include the Col de Joux Plane, which sounded fun – what he didn’t tell us, […]

Radway Green (Short Run) – Sunday 8th Ju

Radway Green (Short Run) – Sunday 8th July 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Alan Silver picked up one of the biggest wins of his career this Sunday, taking the sprint for Radway Green. Silver, who has been on good form recently, particularly in the mountains, launched a surprise attacked after a powerful leadout by Wood was held up by traffic lights 200 metres from the finish. Silver using […]

Dagfields (Long & Short) – 1st July 2012

Reading Time: < 1 minute The last time I visited Dagfields it was the weekend before Llanberis. It was a mild, sunny day with lots of talk about the next weekend that lay ahead. It was a cloudier, more relaxed visit this time round with more talk about the Club 10s. Despite dull, overcast skies a good crowd gathered at […]

Blue Moon Cafe, Chester (Short Run) – 24

Blue Moon Cafe, Chester (Short Run) – 24th June 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes A reduced field this week gathered at the British Legion, torrential rain earlier in the week had threatened to return but held off enough, the clouds even clearing to let the sun shine through on the way home! 11 riders headed for Loggerheads while the remaining 12 (including 3 new riders) headed direct for Chester […]

Two Mills (Medium Run) – 17th June 2012

Two Mills (Medium Run) – 17th June 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Good turnout at the Legion this morning, fine drizzle and overcast skies saw riders don rain capes to start but were soon packed away as the rain stopped and cloud thinned. Having had our picture taken for a Northwich Guardian article we split up into 3 groups, a small group headed for the hills of […]

Congleton Garden Centre (Short Run) – 20

Reading Time: 2 minutes With the weatherman forecasting barmy temperatures in the week to come and Ian Smith saying it will even last into June, it was a bit of disappointment to roll up at the British Legion avec arm warmers and gilet. A chilly wind while on the bike took away the heat from the sun trying to […]

“This is crap I’m going home….”

“This is crap I’m going home….”

Reading Time: 3 minutes … one of my wife’s more prophetic quotes.  To be honest I was surprised she had got this far, and this far was only 20 minutes from the start!  My early morning attempts at bravado had fallen on very suspicious ears.  ‘The weather looks fine, we can’t let Derek down, we won’t melt etc etc’ […]