transcon training – the man from icon

Meridian Hills [AAA Brevet des Grimpeurs du Sud 200km audax perm]

Meeting friends on a cold dark petrol station forecourt. Sunrise viewed from up the hill by the golf course, a huge orange disc seemingly rising from the silver sea. Down on the weald frozen puddles and glistening hedgerow. Icy bends in the hollows, cornering by trying not to steer, a foot unclipped and leg held…

December 30, 2016

themanfromicon

audax

200km, 2016-17 RRtY, audax, brevet des grimpeurs du sud, brevet randonneur, meridian hills, perm, transcon training

A Reminder

For one reason or another I’ve not ridden much in Sussex this year. There have been trips overseas, to mountainous lands, stage races and iconic summits, tours and audaxes, foreign counties, long long rides to way over there and then back again. Some of these were planned long ago and some impromptu and immediate desires…

November 22, 2016

themanfromicon

cycling

2016-17 RRtY, cycling, home, sussex, transcon training

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