by Rose | Aug 1, 2024 | Cycling, Injury, Members' posts, Race Report
Time Trialling is, in its very essence, a race against yourself. You have an individual start time, you depart the line alone, you push against your own capacity and race the clock: you have a lonesome journey through the course, unaccompanied other than the...
by Rose | Jul 16, 2024 | Members' posts, News, Race Report, Results
(BS), 13 July 2024 Normally to merit a write-up on here you need to have completed some epic Category A fell race or ultra, reliving your day with the following likely sequence: weeks of training – meticulous on-the-day preparation – step-by-step details of each...
by Rose | Jun 23, 2024 | Lakeland, Members' posts, Race Report, Results
22/6/24, 20.8km, 1518m (AL) Preparation for this race began in 2022. I’d pre-entered that year but had to pull out with COVID. I’d obviously done a bit of research: when I dug my OS map out last week it still had the checkpoints dimly marked in pencil. My vague plan...
by Rose | Jun 4, 2024 | Injury, Members' posts, Race Report, Ultra
100 miles, 12,700 feet, average rainfall 52mm In the age of Strava, we’re used to being visible, to being watched. If it’s not on Strava, it didn’t happen. But the dramatic rise in popularity of ultra endurance events and multi-day adventure racing over recent years...
by Rose | Jun 3, 2024 | Members' posts, News, Race Report, Scotland
25th May 2024 Seven summits, 2370m of climbing, 28km and only 250 places. When I first heard about the Isle of Jura Fell Race a few years ago, I regarded it very much as one of those races for people who knew what they were doing. At that stage, I wasn’t one of them....
