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Bike Belle
Day 1: http://www.strava.com/activities/300629658 Day 2: http://www.strava.com/activities/300883823 then a train across London and http://www.strava.com/activities/301194258
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Hometown Woods
Army barracks and the sound of gun fire. No red flags, it should be OK. My first ever race. Why would I start racing at my age. Idiot. Please let the rain stop. The terrain and smell of damp pine takes me back. I revert to a 13 year old kid on a BMX hacking…
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One Way Ticket
One way ticket, only one way home. A flat before I’ve even started. A lap of Cambridge looking for an open bike shop to borrow a track pump. Saving that gas canister for emergencies in the middle of nowhere. Really must buy a decent mini pump. Buy an extra gas canister. The fear of not…
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Tour of Flanders Weekender Day 2 – Ping!
A special kind of cold and damp, and then a spoke snapping at the bottom of the Koppenberg ends my day after 65km. Except for the 25km trudge along a dual carriageway into a headwind back to the hotel.
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Tour of Flanders Weekender Day 1 – The Accidental 100km Recce Ride
“How far is the Muur?” “About 8km” “Cool, let’s go!” It wasn’t 8km…
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The Reliable
It’s Wednesday lunchtime and I’m strolling to the Post Office with an envelope full of brevet cards and receipts. It seems a bit anachronistic in these days of gps recording and email but it feels like the proper way to prove that we completed our first permanent audax the previous Sunday. The audax in question…
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The Return of Mad Jack
Mad Jack’s – John Seviour Memorial Audax Last year Mad Jack’s event was supposed to be my first ever audax. It didn’t quite go to plan. This year’s attempt looked equally doomed as Jo and I drove over to meet Mark in Hailsham in sleeting snow. Neither of us recalled seeing this on the weather…
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The Lanes – Bo Peep Bostal
You won’t find yourself here by accident, you seek this place out. Maybe when you set off from home you didn’t plan to come here but somewhere along the way you make a decision to ride up here. When I first started riding again a few years ago I saw an photo on Instagram that…
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The Lanes – Along the Cuckmere Valley
It has three names – Litlington Road, Chapel Hill and The Street (either side of Chapel Hill) – but is one continuous strip of tarmac. Running along the Cuckmere River valley from the Seven Sister visitor centre at Exceat to Wilmington, it transfers your ride from where the South Downs meet the sea inland to…
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