Tag: cycling
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The Festive 500 and the Cycling and Running Year Just Gone
In recent years, the Festive 500 seems to have become a little divisive. Sponsored by cycle clothing company Rapha, the Festive 500 is a challenge, largely undertaken using Strava, for cyclists to complete a total of 500km of riding between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. That’s eight days to ride an average of 62.5km…
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GCN+ Closing Down
There was some sad news on Wednesday, when Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) announced that GCN+ will be closing down in December this year. Unfortunately, it perhaps wasn’t surprising news set against a plurality of WBD sports brands and a massive need for WBD to cut costs throughout its business to service an enormous debt load.…
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L’Étape du Tour 2023
This entry is also available as an episode of Explore from The Cycling Podcast much of which I recorded at this year’s Étape. Listen to the episode below. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! In October each year, ASO, the organisers of the Tour de France and now the Tour de France Femmes, announce the…
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Tour of Britain 2023 – Photos
I’m trying some new photo formats. This isn’t quite working yet. I may return to it to fix things…
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Tour of Britain 2023 – Stage 6
The 2023 Tour of Britain passed close to me today, so of course I headed out to catch the riders coming through. Running an event like the Tour of Britain isn’t easy in the current economic climate, and so the organisers basically are limited in where they go based on the councils that will pay…
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Gravel Rides Around London #1: Cambridge to London
93.2 KM (57.8 Miles) | 953 Metres (3,127 Feet) This is the first, in what I hope will be a short series of rides you can do on your gravel bike in the vicinity of London. The first couple are going to be point-to-point rides which means that you will need to do one leg…
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Rain, Wind and a Tyre Blowout
Saturday’s ride was always going to be a little interesting. The weather wasn’t great, with rain falling fairly constantly early on. I prevaricated a bit, but decided to do 100km or so circuit around Hertfordshire. So fully layered up in Gore-tex and waterproof shoe covers (which never stay fully waterproofed), I headed out. All was…
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A New Year’s Day Ride to Cambridge
Starting the year as I mean to go on, I rode to Cambridge on New Year’s Day, taking a slightly circuitous route to stretch it out to 100km. A quick ride through the city centre before heading back to the station for the return leg by train.
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The Rapha Festive 500 – 2022 Edition
For the second year running, I decided to embark on the Rapha Festive 500 challenge – riding 500kms between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. I’ve already documented a couple of this year’s rides. Here’s Ride #1, Ride #3 and Ride #4. I didn’t take a camera out with me for Ride#2, and while I…
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Festive 500 – Ride #4
Ride #4 of this year’s Festive 500 was the longest of my rides so far, heading out in the pre-dawn from Sheringham on the North Norfolk coast, southeast along the coast through Cromer, Overstrand, and down to Winterton-on-Sea where the seals gather on the beach. I stopped for a warm tea at the van (it…
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Christmas Eve 2022 – Festive 500 Ride #1
I’m doing the Rapha Festive 500 this year – riding 500KM between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. This was my first ride on Christmas Eve when it was damp and therefore very muddy. Not shown here is me cleaning the GoPro lens many many times during the ride. This was a ride between Sheringham…
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Boxing Day 2022 – Festive 500 Ride #3
I’m doing the Rapha Festive 500 this year – riding 500KM between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. This was my third ride on Boxing Day which was gloriously sunny if still cold. This was a ride between Sheringham on the North Norfolk coast and Norwich. The full route is over on Strava. So far…