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  • Cycling around the Isle of Skye
    Cycling around the Isle of Skye
  • Gravel grinding and L'Eroica
    Gravel grinding and L'Eroica
  • The seven stages of becoming a cyclist
    The seven stages of becoming a cyclist
  • An ode to cycling in Regent's Park
    An ode to cycling in Regent's Park
  • Land's End to London - A random cycle ride
    Land's End to London - A random cycle ride
  • FTP Testing - Benefits, strategy, tips and pacing
    FTP Testing - Benefits, strategy, tips and pacing
  • When is the best time to cycle?
    When is the best time to cycle?
  • The inexplicable good and bad days on the bike
    The inexplicable good and bad days on the bike
  • Early morning cycling - The beauty, the benefits
    Early morning cycling - The beauty, the benefits
  • Time crunched training plan. It works
    Time crunched training plan. It works

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Tag: bonk

Being dropped

It will never happen to me. Yet it did. Humiliation, defeat, weakness. It wasn’t even a quick ride. Bump, gone, just like that. Dropped.

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How not to climb a hill – a hard-fought education

The deconstruction of a hill climb gone wrong. Very, very wrong. The summit. Finally. My body quivers, arms and legs shaking, in shock, for they know not what their master has just put them through. Dumbstruck, they remain numb. Nothing works. My eyes see double, triple, the many horizons wobbling before me. Asphyxiated, I’ve climbed […]

Read More How not to climb a hill – a hard-fought education

The inexplicable good and bad days on the bike

You feel great. You feel like shit. Yin and yang, attacking and being dropped, good and bad days on the bike are unpredictable at best, maddening at worst. Despite the best efforts of psychologists, nutritionists, coaches, and strict training plans, there are those days when anything can happen, we can be at the top of […]

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Cycling bonk – A meeting with the man with the hammer

It happens to us all. It shouldn’t, we know it shouldn’t, and yet still the moment strikes. I’m not talking about the moment you realise your favourite rider has been caught doping in the peloton, nor the confusion between its and it’s, nor that fear of your next KOM loss on Strava. No. I’m talking […]

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One for the road

  • Cycling around the Isle of Skye
    Cycling around the Isle of Skye
  • Gravel grinding and L'Eroica
    Gravel grinding and L'Eroica
  • The seven stages of becoming a cyclist
    The seven stages of becoming a cyclist
  • An ode to cycling in Regent's Park
    An ode to cycling in Regent's Park
  • Land's End to London - A random cycle ride
    Land's End to London - A random cycle ride
  • FTP Testing - Benefits, strategy, tips and pacing
    FTP Testing - Benefits, strategy, tips and pacing
  • When is the best time to cycle?
    When is the best time to cycle?
  • The inexplicable good and bad days on the bike
    The inexplicable good and bad days on the bike
  • Early morning cycling - The beauty, the benefits
    Early morning cycling - The beauty, the benefits
  • Time crunched training plan. It works
    Time crunched training plan. It works

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