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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Newmarket Ridge Cambridgeshire Hills Ride
Route Stats: 660m climbing 60 miles / 97km http://gb.mapometer.com/running/route_2355369.html This weekend, I had a rare Saturday morning off from family duties, and as the forecast was dry, I thought I would make a start on the Cambridgeshire Hill Routes. For … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling, Hill climb
Tagged Cycling, cycling routes, Gog Magog, hill climb, Newmarket Ridge
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Hill Climbing in Cambridgeshire
Earlier this year I wrote a slightly tongue in cheek post on Cambridgeshire’s top 10 hill routes (it was February, I was bored). However, somewhat to my surprise this has been the most popular post on my blog. Scanning through my … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridgeshire, Cycling, Cycling routes, Hill climb, Huntingdonshire
Tagged cambridgeshire, Cycling, cycling routes, hill climb
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Search terms
I imagine it is fairly standard for blog sites, but one of the features I like about WordPress is the record it keeps of search terms from people visiting my blog from search engines. I’ve learned a few interesting things … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling, Hill climb, Milton Keynes Bowl, racing
Tagged Cycling, Festivals, hill climb, racing, Search terms
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Bramble Whipped
If the title lured you in with a promise of kinky woodland adventures à la 50 Shades then I am sorry to disappoint (although if it was, it would probably give my visitor stats a healthy boost – if only for … Continue reading
First (and second) climb of Box Hill
The vital statistics may be a long way from rivaling the Grand Tour climbs of the Alps or Pyrenees, and it may lack the brutality of the Classics climbs, but on the opening Saturday of the London Olympic Games, Box … Continue reading
Posted in Box Hill, Cycling, Hill climb, London 2012, Olympics
Tagged Box Hill, Cycling, hill climb, London 2012, Olympic Road Race
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Back in the Pool
For the past few years swimming has meant mumbling through nursery rhymes while bouncing and whooshing one or other of my daughters around a pool along with bunch of other dads and their toddlers. That perception started to change as … Continue reading
Huntingdonshire, a surprisingly popular place for a sportive
The luminous yellow direction signs from last weekends Rutland Cycling Reservoir Cogs sportive have been lurking on the road signs and street lamps of my patch all week. Driving my youngest daughter back from this mornings swimming lesson I noticed … Continue reading
Posted in Club cycling, Cycling, Huntingdonshire, MAMIL, Sportive, St Neots
Tagged Club Cycling, Countryside, Cycling, Huntingdonshire, MAMIL, Sportive, St Neots
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Pheasants, dumb birds
Pheasants, in the evolutionary pile of avian intelligence, surely they landed at the bottom of the heap, then dug a little deeper. Or, perhaps their gamekeepers have bred out every gram of common sense, after all, you don’t want to … Continue reading
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