Middle Pack

My 3rd race in 4 days was always going to be a painful experience. the Calder Valley Reservoir Bogs was made even more so by the sadistic nature of the course. The route is only disclosed on the day and generally althought navigation to the checkpoints is easy, choosing the best line through the bogs [...]

What a great way to spend an evening! An enjoyable drive up to Kettlewell with a club mate followed by some vague pretence at warming up followed by a great race route up to the top of a ridge, plumetting down the other side then a slow slog back up before a final plummet down [...]

I did my first ever mountain bike orienteering race last night. Only 2 hours but still has left me drained today. The event was local to me, local enough to bike from work then bike home afterwards. I knew all the trails, the only difficulty was finding the checkpoints as they were fire hydrants, road [...]

Is this the beginning of the end for my foot injury? I really do hope so? As the blog shows, I have been doing a bit more running recently. No real training just going along for the odd race and I have been pleasantly suprised at where I was in the races. Not troubling the [...]

In keeping with my recent theme of no running training and only racing on races that are less than 6 miles and usually on an evening, it meant I could do the Otley Chevin fell race. Although only 3.5 miles it does pack in a whopping 900ft of ascent before tumbling back down to the [...]