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• MTBO CAMP – Micro Hoke

  

  The last day of MTBO camp is a non competitive ultra long event, similar in style to a British trailquest but with fixed order and free order sections. Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• MTBO Camp Cup – Middle Race 2

  

  The last formal race of the MTBO Camp Cup 2014 was another middle race, again on classic Baltic sand dune forest terrain. Our start was adjacent to the event... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• MTBO Camp 2014 – Middle Race

  

  Classic Baltic sand dune forest with a dense track network is what middle race mountain bike orienteering is all about, today was brilliant,  a smile on my... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2014 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• MTBO Camp – WRE Long Race

  

  We woke this morning. To glorious blue Baltic skies and crisp sea air. The camp long race is a world ranking event for the elite riders and reading the final... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2014 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• MTBO Camp – Sprint

  

  No warm up, no mental prep, just rocked up at the start line, said hello to a couple of people and then zoomed out into the night. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• MTBO Camp 2014 – Day 1

  

  My travel day started with a very antisocial 3am alarm, what was more antisocial was the M40 to London being shut, meaning a massive detour back round Birmingha... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• Carsington Christmas MBO Score

  

  My back has been getting better week on week recently. Is it the 4 months of Pilaties? is it the fact I am not driving 32 thousand miles a year in a worn our ca... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• Rome City Race 2013

  Originally I wasn’t planning on joining Cath and her cohort of WCH juniors on the trip to Rome as it was looking tight for a project in work, #buildsydneylive,... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2013 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• Brompton

  

  I started a new job at the start of September – I now work for BIM Academy – a Building Information Modelling and Project Technologies consultancy based in... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• African Adventures 3 – The Drakensberg Mountains

  

  We arrived in Didima camp in darkness after a few hours drive from the coast after briefly visiting Durban, the last 20 mins quite scarily avoiding locals and... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• African Adventures 2 – Whale Watching.

  

  Holly and I set our alarms for bonkers o’clock and were at the “whale office” in St Lucia at 5.50 for our tractor ride which would take us the few kilometers... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• African Adventures 1 – Foot Safari

  

  They say only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun. We had already been up since 5.45am having been for a dawn landrover safari which was amazing. Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• African Adventures 4 – Drakensberg Canopy Tour

  

  During our last week in South Africa Holly had had the disappointment of one of her holiday activities being closed so we were looking for something a bit... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2013 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• Isobel Trail, Stafford

  

  Last Saturday I was looking for something a bit different to take Holly out for a ride on. I wanted to do a long ride without too much climb and not bumpy for m... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2013 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• Injury Update – July 2013

  

  The more astute of my readers will have noticed a little activity in my Attackpoint training diary after so long with nothing showing. Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• Arran

  

  For those that don’t know Arran is the closest Scottish West Coast island to England, being south of even Glasgow. Over the years we have been to most of the... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• Injury Update

  Ive been waiting for an NHS referral to go and see a consultant in Sports Medicine in Birmingham but today have had a letter to say my local NHS Trust – Staffor... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• Twitter – Building Design Magazine Top 10 BIM Tweeters!

  

  I started tweeting a little when I was trying to win a Dorset Cereals little blog award a few years ago campaigning for votes. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Injury Update…

  So having said I won’t just blog about the injury situation here is an update. I had another lumbar spinal cortisone injection in early January, the idea being... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS

• Rise and Rise of Cannock Chase Roadbiking!

  

  10 years ago when we moved into our house we were plagued by weekender bikers, neeeeow neeow, all afternoon, particularly on sunny summer Sundays. Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 OTHER SPORTS, OUTDOORS