Alison Wren

It’s ages since I even looked at this blog. In August 2021 I started writing a review of the Yorkshire Lass cycle sportive. I never finished the post. A few days after completing the longest bike ride in my life I broke my ankle. My friend and I had decided it would be good to try Stand Up Paddleboarding. My social feed was full of people enthusing about SUP accompanied by pictures of them gliding serenely across smooth blue waters….

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I’ve always loved sport. Watching it that is. As a young child I was fascinated by the Olympic games, avidly following as many sports as I could. I still have the scrapbook I kept from the 1976 games in Montreal.  My father was a keen cricket fan and summers were spent listening to Test Match Special and watching the Sunday League matches on TV. But we weren’t a particularly sporty family. Dad was very much an armchair fan. Fishing was…

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