Moving on up
It all went right this time.A full field for the 4s at Odd Down yesterday and I snuck in as first reserve, number 41 in a field of 40. I wouldn't say that my preparation was perfect: I woke up at 4am...
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SR Series: 1/4
One of four rides done, but only 13% of the way there. Saturday's fun was the Cheltenham New Flyer Audax, a 200km big lap of Swindon starting and finishing in Andoversford and taking in plenty of...
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My 300km Tripster
So tomorrow I'm off on the second part of my Super Randonneur journey. I can't do the Heart of England 300km any more so instead I'm riding back to my mum and dad's house in East Bergholt, which is...
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SR series 2/4: Back to Bergholt
I'm attempting a Super Randonneur series this year: 200km, 300km, 400km and 600km rides in a calendar year. Easter weekend was the second leg, with a solo effort across plenty of Southern Britain back...
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Frank
It's fun coming to the Hotel Belvedere, and one of the reasons it's fun is because you get to ride with new people. People like Frank.I spent the first day trying to stay with Frank and fellow...
View ArticleSometimes lucky socks aren't enough
I don't really consider these socks to be lucky.But I was looking forward to wearing them, fresh from Italy, on my first outing in the 2/3s. Which was so brutally short that I didn't even have time to...
View ArticleThe inter-club ten
Thought I'd do an evening ten. Not a thought I've had for, I think, about 12 years.But there was an inter-club ten and a bunch of the Bath CC guys were going and it was a balmy May evening, calm and...
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Can you race on a £450 bike?
In the end I cheated, and swapped the wheels.This was meant to be a blog that said: hey! You can race on a cheap bike, it's okay! And it still kind of is that. But I couldn't help myself.We have the...
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Hot laps
It's not until you stop that it really hits you. The heat. The humidity. It's like a slap in the face. It's no wonder everyone stays inside the whole time.But it's not often you get to ride around the...
View ArticleRudderless
I dunno, it was all going so well. Too well, in fact.When your season's goal is to try and make Cat 3 and you've done it by the end of February, what do you do then? Try and make Cat 2? That wasn't...
View ArticleRight back where I started. Again.
The local winter crits aren't eaxctly set up for Cat 3 glory. Every week we'll have to mix it with the 2s. All those skinny lads, with their points and their shaved legs and their cardiovascular...
View ArticleBack on it
So. Here we go again, then.I've ponied up for another ten weeks of pain from that Dave Smith to get me ready for the race season. In fact I have nine weeks before my first target race, the Castle Combe...
View ArticleOpen Season
It's my first race of the season tomorrow. In the sense of 'race that I have a reasonable chance of being in at the end', as opposed to 'race that I've entered'. Odd Down's Winter Series gave me a nice...
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Castle Combe Easter Classic: a grand day out
I done a race. The Castle Combe Easter Classic third cats. It was fun, and I didn't get dropped. Look, there's a pic of me booting off the front with the pack in chase. Animating the race, I think they...
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This one's on me
So I got hit by a car when I didn't need to get hit by one and now I'm writing this with a big ice pack wrapped around my wrist. It hurts more because I know I could have avoided it.Scenario: I'm on my...
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My Dirty Reiver bike
It’s the Dirty Reiver soon! If you don’t know what that is, it’s a 200km Gravel ride though Kielder Forest, and should be fun, assuming we don’t neet the survival blanket and emergency whistle they...
View ArticleFor Mike
Three years ago I was riding the LVIS Audax in memory of Steve Worland, and yesterday it was for another of the good guys, taken long before their time. And yet again, it was the kind of ride that...
View ArticleOpen Season
It's my first race of the season tomorrow. In the sense of 'race that I have a reasonable chance of being in at the end', as opposed to 'race that I've entered'. Odd Down's Winter Series gave me a nice...
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Castle Combe Easter Classic: a grand day out
I done a race. The Castle Combe Easter Classic third cats. It was fun, and I didn't get dropped. Look, there's a pic of me booting off the front with the pack in chase. Animating the race, I think they...
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This one's on me
So I got hit by a car when I didn't need to get hit by one and now I'm writing this with a big ice pack wrapped around my wrist. It hurts more because I know I could have avoided it.Scenario: I'm on my...
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