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2023-03-21 00:49:06 - The second edition of GranGuanche Audax Gravel is underway, with 100 hardy bikepackers racing across the Canary Islands. I rode the launch edition in 2022, and watching...
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2022-11-09 16:40:25 - Once I'd picked up the cycling bug, I found myself looking longingly at cycling holidays with thoughts of "what if" and "how good can they be?" My wife Chris and I...
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2022-11-04 20:11:11 - Well, it's done. I'm finished. I don't mean physically, mentally, and spiritually kaput curled on the side of a road someplace in the foetal position. I rolled across...
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2022-10-05 11:27:05 - Now in its second year, the King's Cup Gravel Championships is the ultimate gravel cycling festival in the UK. Starting with some thrilling racing and ending the weekend...
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2022-09-29 14:28:51 - There's something about the words 'London to Brighton' that conjure up the stuff of myths in the minds of most cyclists down in the South East of England. For some it's...
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2022-07-25 13:50:28 - Flatout in the Fens was one of my first long distance sportives back in 2013 when it was organised by Kilo 2 Go. I feel sure that the event was about eighty miles,...
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2022-07-05 17:26:46 - David Lean's 1962 cinematic masterpiece, Lawrence of Arabia, brought international film stardom to Peter O'Toole. Even I'm too young to have seen it when it was...
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2022-06-16 14:01:28 - The Rapha Pennine Rally returns for a second edition next week, which reminds me that I hadn't yet posted a report on last year's inaugural event. A lengthy write-up...
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2022-05-20 13:04:58 - My secret weapon in preparing for my first sportive of 2022 was to do what the pros do - early season training in Spain. Six days in warmer climates a week before Beyond...
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2021-11-16 11:27:57 - Rouleur, the creators of every cyclist's favourite jazz-mag, certainly know how to put on a show. Running from November 3rd-5th, Rouleur Live promised to bring their...
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2021-11-02 11:17:13 - Eccentric customs abound on these islands. Whether it's cheese rolling in the Cotswolds or Dorking's annual wife-carrying race, we all have our local quirks and have...
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2021-10-19 13:23:08 - Billed as "Ireland's premier gravel cycling challenge", the Lakelander Gravel Grinder pits riders against a gruelling 100km or 50km course set in the lakelands of...
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2021-10-15 11:17:53 - Taking place on 10 October, the Cambridgeshire Rumble is somewhat out of place this year. It is normally organised as a season starter to get the legs spinning after...
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2021-10-06 10:21:02 - In part one of his report on the first King's Cup Gravel Festival, a hard, dry, flat course through the Kings Forest in Suffolk saw elite athletes Alistair Brownlee and...
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2021-09-28 12:55:05 - The Kings Cup Gravel Festival, originally scheduled for last autumn, finally took place on the weekend of the 18th-19th September 2021. The event promised an unusual...
