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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...
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2021-08-16 14:04:16 - It was great to see another sportive in our area, and with the dark clouds of the Covid period beginning to clear my cycling buddy, Paul, and I signed up for the...
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2021-08-11 14:48:13 - You wait 18 months for a sportive, and then three turn up at once... It was revealed at the briefing for the Mendips Classic sportive that there were two other similar...
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2021-07-26 10:58:01 - I've flown in an aeroplane. I've used a plane when hanging a door. I've eaten plain crisps and (unbelievably, you'd imagine) like a plain salad. I've done things that...
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2021-07-22 12:38:07 - I have to admit I had never heard of Sportive HQ until I saw a piece in Sportive.com that stated they'd been voted the best sportive organisers. Whilst I'm no expert on...
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2021-07-14 14:11:39 - The past weekend saw the first edition of Glorious Gravel Salisbury Plains sportive. I headed along at the last minute - together with Andy - to try out the course in a...
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2021-06-28 11:56:12 - The Glorious Gravel team have been busy during lockdown putting together a series of rides up and down the country for 2021. We sent Alex along on one of them to see how...
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2021-06-15 06:36:54 - My personal experience of the Black Rat sportive 2021 was the very definition of "failing to prepare is preparing to fail". This was in complete contrast to the...
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2021-06-14 11:38:02 - The Rapha Pennine Rally starts this Tuesday 15 June, with 74 riders rolling out of Edinburgh on an unsupported off-road (mostly) adventure to Manchester over the...
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2021-05-03 17:14:06 - There's an opening sequence in one of my favourite all-time sitcoms, very Bergmanesque, where the Grim Reaper is playing chess with a mortal. The mortal moves a piece...
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2021-01-19 14:50:23 - As we brush the dust of 2020's smoking ruins from our collective shoulder, let's take one quick look back at the year's final challenge: the Rapha Festive 500. I'm sure...
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2020-10-29 12:08:49 - Well, the winter's here and no one looks forward to that time of the year in the UK. Gone are the hot temperatures and sunshine. Gone are the long days. Gone are the dry...
