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2018-11-28 17:02:21 - November is usually hit or miss for planning longer spins, so it was with some celebration that in the middle of November the weather was ideal for getting out....
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2018-11-06 17:45:35 - Testing the body's limits, British style - it can only be hill climb season! Yes, that's right, we're well into hill climbing season. The ignoble and daft exercise of...
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2018-11-06 11:20:18 - The key moment of the Castles & Cathedrals sportive came before a wheel had even been turned in anger. It essentially boiled down to a clothing decision: my pink...
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2018-10-30 13:19:09 - The clocks turned back on Sunday, granting most of us an extra hour in bed - but for the 800 riders taking part in Red Bull Timelaps, it meant another hour in the saddle...
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2018-10-29 11:17:28 - World Cup Cyclocross, amateur gravel in Switzerland's Capital. My kinda riding. I'm not someone that effortlessly drifts my bike around a corner. Nor rides down stairs...
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2018-10-23 11:11:05 - I remember reading a post-ride report of the Gran Fondo Il Lombardia sportive last year and thinking it was enough to convince me to never take part - the reflection of...
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2018-10-12 14:21:19 - Cycling wasn't the whole objective but served only as the medium. The objective was to seek challenge, to push myself and to explore the world. With that, I decided to...
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2018-09-25 15:55:29 - Distal biceps femoris tendinopathy? Nope, I'd never heard of it either, but it's the injury that's been plaguing me since the turn of the year. That pesky inflammation...
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2018-09-11 13:20:55 - The Saddleback Sodbury Sportive is a popular and well-established event - but was there evidence of standards slipping slightly in the 2018 incarnation? I think this was...
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2018-08-27 15:24:28 - Italian bike owners tend to be a very passionate subset of the already overly-obsessive group that is the 'cycling fan'. Cycling fans, of which I am very much one, tend...
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2018-08-06 13:02:06 - After a long period off the bike I was fired with renewed enthusiasm after my recent attempt at the Maratona dles Dolomites and a daily dose of Tour de France...
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2018-08-02 16:32:15 - If you've ever had the desire to see what the countryside around Norfolk has to offer, but don't really have the time to spare, the Cycle Together Sandringham sportive...
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2018-07-18 11:54:19 - Stage 12 - Bourg-Saint-Maurice Les Arcs > Alpe d'HuezDistance - 175.7kmClimbing - 5300m Climbs - Col de la Madeleine, Lacets de Montvernier, Col de la Croix de Fer,...
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2018-07-17 16:50:07 - It's 6.12 am on the first Sunday morning in July. I'm stood on a road next to the Italian equivalent of a village green. I've got my bike and my cycling kit on but I'm...
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2018-07-17 11:02:14 - The closest I've been to bikepacking recently was putting a frame in a box and posting it. That's not strictly true - a few years ago, me and a mate cycled down to my...
