transcontinental race training – the man from icon

Five Sevenths

Half way up the hill out of town I spot a bench nestled under some trees. Shade, at last. I pull over, lean my bike against one end of the bench, sit down, and take a swig of water. A few minutes earlier back down in the town a bar owner had kindly filled my…

June 1, 2017

themanfromicon

france, randonneur, touring

audax, cycle touring, cycling, DIY by GPS, france, long distance cycling, transcontinental, transcontinental race training

Winter Wonderland

We can’t feel our fingers or toes but we are surrounded by the whiteness of an overwhelming silence. Mist and snow have muted the woodland around us. Last night messages bounced back and forth discussing whether to attempt the planned 200 kilometre DIY audax or not. The decision to set off from Brighton and see…

February 12, 2017

themanfromicon

cycling

audax, coldharbour lane, cycling, DIY by GPS, DIY perm, leith hill, ranmore common, snow, surrey, surrey hills, transcontinental race training, white down, winter

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