I’m not going to beat around the bush. It’s going to go down like this:

- under 14 stone for the start of the season in March 2011
– a sub 22 minute 10 mile time trial
– a sub 1 hour 25 mile time trial
– Coast 2 Coast (road route) [...]

At the risk of being called a brat by those near and dear to me… that was a bit of an anti-climax.

Yesterday was the Tyneside Vagabonds Open 10 mile time trial on the M105 course. It’s been over a year since I last raced on that course, in a Vag’s club 10. On a [...]

The countdown to the end of the season has begun. I have 1 training session left tonight, a gentle recovery tomorrow night, rest on Friday, and then on Saturday, the final race of the season – the Tyneside Vagabonds Open 10.

It will be something of a bitter sweet race for me. The course the [...]

It’s been a long time since I took to the road for a long distance solo jaunt.

So, when beloved (who is currently suffering with a severe case of lady flu – it’s like man flu but much, much worse…) made it clear that she wanted to suffer in peace, and that I was henceforth [...]

I’ll admit to being slightly confused.

I say slightly, you might as well have put me in a room full of shovels and told me to take my pick.

Over the season, my results have steadily improved. For the Barnesbury 10, the Wednesday night time trial I use for my, um, “training”, I’ve gone from [...]

It’s funny. Throughout my life, I’ve not really won much.

At junior school, I won a reading prize. Quite how I pulled that one off, I’m not sure. I suspect it was more by default that anything as none of the other kids could sit the right way on a toilet seat, let alone read. [...]

I’ll be honest. I’m a tad nervous.

Saturday is the third and final race in the Cramlington 10 series, and an opportunity for me to show just how far I’ve come. However, it is now starting to look like it could end up being somewhat of an anti-climax to what has been quite a fruitful [...]