The 2005 Weaver Valley Cycling Club Cyclocross in Northwich kicked off the North West series this year. I arrived late and had time for a shoddy five minute ride round and then suffered after lap one as a result. Lessons learnt. 3rd out of 55 but should have won this, given the opposition. Good course and perfect conditions – very fast racing.
Eye Of The Storm
Eye Of The Storm seems one of the more compelling blogs to do with Katrina – some more good piccies.
Photos from the extended Family
The in-laws have put a load of piccies online. Some lovely ones, including this one of my thuggish daughter. Click here to see them.
Oh, and by the way, there’s some more photos of the Haygarths here, including some ones of our ‘holidays from home’ to the seaside and Lily’s third birthday.
Minnellium does charidee
Strangely chuffed to do my first ever audio bit for charity. The story:
I upload my tunes to Acidplanet, and voiceover artist Drew Hadwal heard one of my tracks (a very off the cuff blues track about Katrina). He contacted me about using the guitar part on a Red Cross public service announcement(,MP3, 980kb) across the US for helping hurricaine victims, so I said yep.
Katrina: Brewing up
Biggers (a friend) sent me these by email so i’ve no idea who owns the copyright – if anyone wants me too I’ll take them off. Just stunning ‘before’ pics of Katrina as it hit Louisiana. The more I think about Katrina the less I understand the power of it. The size of the bloody British Isles under water.
Top ten cycling books
The Guardian have put an interesting list of Matt Seaton’s top ten cycling books on their site. Glad to see that they haven’t done a ‘best sales’ ranking, as the best sellers are often so glib (case in point: ‘Every Second Counts’ by Lancifur Armstrong didn’t make it into the list. Utter macho bollocks and more than a couple of of ‘conveniently in Lance’s favour’ errors. Click here to read the full list.
Looting or grocery shopping?
Two photographs of New Orleans residents wading through chest-deep water unleashed a wave of chatter among bloggers Wednesday about whether black people are being treated unfairly in media coverage of post-hurricane looting.
One of the images, shot by photographer Dave Martin for the Associated Press (and publi9shed on Yahoo news on Tuesday 30th Aug), shows a young black man wading through chest-deep waters after “looting” a grocery store, according to the caption. The young man appears to have a case of Pepsi under one arm and a full garbage bag in tow. In the other, similar shot, taken by photographer Chris Graythen for AFP/Getty Images, a white man and a light-skinned woman are shown wading through chest-deep water after “finding” goods including bread and soda, according to the caption, in a local grocery store.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Free Ipod
Nope – it’s not a scam – just takes a bit of work from you. I’m on my way to getting mine – reckon it’ll take about 20 days in total…. Here’s how.
Ishkur’s thoroughly geeky appraisal of Electronic Music
This has been around for a bit but it’s been recently redesigned (now v2.5). A thorough description of all the genres of electronic music. It’s funny in a geekish kind of way. Needs the sound turned on.
Baby Boy
Hurraaahhhh! Lily has a new cousin, and Kate and I have a new nephew. Following on from Helen Haygarth’s birth four(ish) weeks ago, Sally and Simon Rowlands (Sally,s Kate’s sister and Kate’s my wife) had Olly Will Rowlands this morning. Olly’s a strange name, in that it’s a creative spelling of Ollie. We thought they’d go for something traditional, but it was a double-bluff. Welcome to the world, little Olly. Pics to follow, no doubt….
Fell Running results
As this is turning into a bit of diary, I thought I’d stick down some of my fell running results from the last few months:
08 09 2005: Hades Hill Race (Whitworth): 4th (out of 86) – 34:41
10 08 2005: Pilgrims Cross fell race: 5th (out of 75ish) – 41:42
26 07 2005: Roseberry Topping race: 6th (out of 72) – 12:43
16 07 2005: Ingleborough fell race: 23rd (out of 206) – 55:42
14 07 2005: Bull Hill fell race: 7th (out of 108) – 39:24
03 07 2005: Settle Hills Race: 23rd (out of 106) – 57:26
15 06 2005: Two Towers fell race: 21st (out of 103) – 39:01
24 04 2005: Three Peaks Race: 51st (out of 374) – 3:54:40
…just when I was feeling good
….my friend James brought a tear to my eye with this testimonial on this site to our lovely friend Abigail.
My great friend Abi had so much life and love about her and she shared that so freely and effortlessly with all that knew her.. I ran the London Marathon last year in memory of such a lovely person and a real friend. Running a marathon is a fairly painful experience but it pales into insignificance alongside the suffering endured by Abi, her family and her friends so I ran and raised money for AICR in the hope that I might be able to help prevent other people having to go through this ordeal. We all miss her and we will always remember her.
James