-
From Poor Languedoc Footwork
-
From French Misadventures 2023
-
From Steady Away
-
From A Break in the Training
-
From BMC 2017 AGM
-
From Ben Nevis, Point Five Gully
-
From El Chorro - part 2
Tag: injuries
Injuries (normally sports related).
It’s been 10 years to the week since I first went to the Languedoc with Keith and friends. So I was quite excited to be returning…
Our summer jollies to the Alps this year had mixed results…
Three weeks ago I managed to fall, not far and not fast, off a rock climb in Buttermere. I was unlucky to hit a small (10cm x 10cm) ledge with my left foot in that fall. If I’d fallen 10cm less far or to either side I’d have missed the ledge, been embarrassed but totally …
Training for l’Etape du Tour had been going well, we’d even made our little 15 second “selfie videos” about our objectives for the Etape as requested by the Social Rider programme.
The 2017 BMC AGM was held on the 22nd April at Plas y Brenin, coincidentally Earth Day (more on that later). The AGM promised to be an extraordinarily complex event with two major motions on the agenda including a motion of no confidence in the BMC executive. Perhaps it was these issues, and the CC’s …
Another night sleeping in the back of the car, another 4am alarm call, and another world-class classic Scottish winter route. This time on the mountain that some might consider to be the “crucible of Scottish winter climbing”, the north face of Ben Nevis.
We might have been in the south of Spain, and it might have been sunny, but it was really, really cold.
It was time to blow out some of the cobwebs, remember how to ride a mountain bike, and discover some of the Dales biking trails around Skipton...
Rachel got to be a practice casualty, I got to be one for real!
