Keeping in line with me being a crap blogger,  time to catch up. I did a couple more rounds of CX where either I had bike or skill problems. This culminated at Clanfield for round 4 of National Trophy where I left with nothing positive to say at all. I have had time to reflect ..read more

Time to give up? Maybe or maybe it is what it is. 3 cx races since the last blog including my worst race all season which was yesterday.  I really can’t ride off camber traverse. Reality is I need some skills coaching , simple! The other 2 races were solid  as l’ve been riding well ..read more

Cross Cross cross Well that was clumsy Completely forgot to blog about Round 3 of NDCXL where I went to Darley Moor and equalled my best result of the year even though I crashed twice. Aside from the crashing it was some of the best riding I’ve ever done.  The reward was a solid 6th ..read more

So this is now a cx catch up blog with a hill climb thrown in for good measure. First up was Notts and Derby League round 2. I got a front row Start and frankly just went backwards. I don’t really know why. It was very fast with only 1 technical section and it was ..read more

So this was supposed to be a hill climb and CX weekend but for various reasons which I’m not ready to blog about the hill climb didn’t happen. However, I was not missing CX Week 3 of West Midlands CX league had me at Baggeridge County Park which is a new venue for me but ..read more

Been a while, lots of changes. Let’s not dwell. Cross is here but first there was a return to hill climbs. Luck would have it there is a cross race in the same area as the National Hill Climb this year so 2 disciplines to race between now and the end of October. So, Goyt’s ..read more

A largely positive spin on a day in Kielder Forest, yes indeed sports fans a positive report from an event. Verity and I travelled up the night before, we had discussed camping but on waking Saturday morning we were very glad that we had stayed in a hotel as it was -1 and I had to defrost the van. The drive to the start was an easy hour from the hotel and everything was fine until in the traffic waiting to get on site. Small issue really and easily mitigated by me walking up the hill to sign on while Verity parked the van. Having tested the bike well on Thursday and given my luck with valves ..read more

sadly I’m not really. However I did have a great weekend down in Marlborough for the Salisbury Gravel event. I use the word great but challenging may be better. Got done on my booking.com booking with no contact from the agent and then had to get a hotel. I don’t even want to try to explain this but I seem to have lost my money. We got a hotel and met up with Matt L and Kathy for coffee where once more we fixed the world. Nah we just talked rubbish for an hour. Verity and I had a good few hours on the bike going to visit the Avebury Stones. This was fun some of which was caused by my navigatio ..read more

Sadly it’s been anything but good. I’ve followed up the chest infection with a couple of cracked ribs and a cold. Add to that bad news in the family, challenges at karate and all in all 2024 can do one. That said, I did promise an update, so here we are in mid-March, and this is what things look like. No running goals, being ill or injured, I didn’t rejoin my club or Welsh Masters. Run less than 100 miles and all with my dog. The bike is where it is for me, at least until mid-May. Mainly, this will be gravel with focus on the UCI Gralloch event May 18th. To support this, I’ve entered 2 gravel ..read more

the blog that wrapped up the Cyclo-cross season with stories of great results at Nationals instead it’s going to be a rapid update of racing while ill, thinking I was better and how it all ended with a trip to Scotland to watch the racing. We started with a trip to NWCCA for Betley Court and not being called to grid but managing to ride from the back row to 10th, sadly this is the highlight of the blog and I am so disappointed with it that I don’t want to dwell on it beyond saying I won’t be signing up for this league next for personal reasons. The day after I thought I had a bit of a head col ..read more