endurance – the man from icon

Here to There to Here

“Spoke to Andrew at TiC who wants to know when we’re going up to say hello?” Within a few minutes we’ve planned to ride to Cambridge and back in a weekend. Two hundred and twenty odd kilometres each way. The idea to enter the 2017 Transcontinental race as a team means it doesn’t take much…

October 25, 2016

themanfromicon

cycling, randonneur

2016-17 RRtY, a long way, audax, berkshire, big ride, buckinghamshire, cambridgeshire, cycling, endurance, essex, for jenn, hertfordshire, jennride, kent, surrey, sussex, transcon training, transcontinental race training

Scuffing the edges

Riding on the edge. Not the ragged edge but the blurred edge of what I think is possible. Travelling along ancient ways, drove roads and holloways. Ignoring the red and yellow lines on the map, following the narrow white lines left behind, the back roads and short cuts. Forgoing busy thoroughfares as if using a…

July 18, 2016

themanfromicon

audax, cycling, randonneur

all day and all night, audax, cycling, endurance, long distance, randonneur

Greenwich Mean Climb 300km [Brevet des Grimpeur du Sud ride #6]

04:29, Dyke Road, Brighton, heading for London. Underworld are played on the radio in the car and two men in their mid-forties reminisce about coming home at this time of the morning rather than going out for a bike ride. 05:47, Blackheath, London. Applying chamois cream behind a bush on the edge of Blackheath. There…

October 18, 2015

themanfromicon

audax, cycling

audax club hackney, bicycle, brevet des grimpeurs du sud, coast, endurance, high weald, hills, kent, landscape, morvelo, north downs, randonnee, randonneur, sea, south downs, sussex