Category: Road Runs

Reading Time: < 1 minute Gary Date sends the following message from the Lakes: I am going to start getting ready for the Fred Witton ( I wanna get sub 9 hours) I know I am already entered, plus my flat is a good base point for training loops etc. I’m sure we all wish him well… And an Underhill […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Aah the perils of the “grapevine”. 9.30 start? or 10.00 start?Well if your not sure best to try both! As some of us did who believed the website!There were about half a dozen of us who were very cold by the time we set off at 10.05 having hung around since before 9.30! Moral of […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Lots of souls at Hartford this morning but most opted for Alan’s shorter run – including two tandems courtesy of the Fearons and the Gregorys. Once it had been announced that the longer group was heading for the hills there was a notable lack of take-up and eight of us set off. Five minutes later […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute 30 August 2009 Lots of riders turned up for this one. I don’t know if it was due to Nicks PR recently but we had quite a few new riders, plus returnees. With the racing season drawing to a close as well, Alan Kemp, fresh from his success at the LVRCC Nationals, was also there. […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Only 15 or so riders today. We all stayed together till Waverton, then one group set off for the ice cream farm and another rode to Holt Garden Centre, into a strong headwind. The cafe conversation was entertaining, as is to be expected when Jed and John are sitting on the same table. We had […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Alan Kemp won for the 18th time this season at Darley Moor on Sat 15th August,also riding was John Conboy, Conboy riding in the younger age cat and to his credit finished in the rapidly diminishing bunch, the strong gale force wind doing the damage.Kemp took his race by the scruff of the neck and […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute From Claire..I asked Baz what he did when he was younger to get fit? He said ” I used to cycle 100 miles up the Cheshire Cat to work, put in a 42 hour day then cycle home again with flat tyres because I couldn’t afford any air, and all this on one fish supper […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Here we are at the Tour along with our mate Lance! We had a great week in the Alps, staying in a chalet just above Bourg St. Maurice, owned by Sam and Andy – http://www.vanillaski.com/Alpine_etape/ – if anyone’s interested in staying there, we’d thoroughly recommend it. Sam used to cook for the British Cycling team […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The long run to Dagfields was beset by a number of “unplanned incidents” which added spice to and otherwise ordinary Sunday run. The group of 18 set off in glorious weather which managed to last all day which made a pleasant change as we are so often caught in showers at some point in the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Hello All, Just to say a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who turned out for the Charity Ride yesturday(23).The feeling I got was it went well and all who attended enjoyed it,well done to Craig winning the King of the Mountains event,Graham for the 1st Sprint and Dave Daynes for the 2nd Sprint appreciated the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Here’s Claire’s account of her successful London to Paris ride – well done girl! I made it to Paris!! It turned out to be quite an adventure! You can read the whole story on my just-giving page http://www.justgiving.com/claireobrien2. I will send you some piccies later today! I had plenty of time as I pedalled the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Thanks to Claire for this ditty… Ode to Danny MacAskill– if you haven’t heard of him have a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o You can ride your bike with no handlebars.You can do bunny hops that leap four feet in the sky.You can sail down a steep flight of concrete stepsOr just jump over them instead. You […]