Category: Cycling

  • Tour Series – Canary Wharf

    I was out at Canary Wharf watching the cycling last night. It was round one of the Halfords Tour Series. Lots more pictures on Flickr.

  • Tour of Britain – Stage 1

    The 2008 edition of the Tour of Britain kicked off today with a 10 lap circuit of London running down the Embankment from Big Ben to the Tower of London and back.

  • London to Brighton

    Not the official one, but a group of us headed off to Brighton from Clapham Common bright and early this morning. In general terms, this isn’t particularly exceptional. There’s an official race that takes place every year in aid of the British Heart Foundation that attracts tens of thousands of competitors, but to put it…

  • A Trip Around Dorset

    Since Saturday was lovely, but I was indoors for too much of it, I though that some outdoor adventure would be an idea. I quite fancied the beach, but it was blindingly obvious that thousands of others would also be heading beachwards, so I was going to have to be quite careful about where I…

  • Training Ride #1

    Since I’ve decided to do this British Cyclosportive along the route of Stage 1 of this year’s Tour de France, I thought that I better start getting into shape and putting a few miles (or kilometres) under my belt. In retrospect, as I sit hear on my sofa with my legs up, going all the…