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Week 4 Update: Routine creates habit for NSD!

October 12, 2016 by Paul Carvill

I am now into my fourth week of what has now gone from a low starch diet (LSD) to a virtually no starch diet (NSD) and while the meals have become somewhat repetitive I have started to form a routine or dare I say it even a habit! The Ankylosing Spondolitis is still ever present, however the symptoms … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ankylosing Spondolitis, Health, Nutrition, Strava, SwimTag, Technology, Zwift Tagged: Ankylosing Spondylitis, Low Starch Diet, No Starch Diet, NSD, Selby Leisure Centre, stiff neck, Strava, Swimtag, Zwift

Double Century Cycle, my first ever 200 mile ride!

June 8, 2015 by Paul Carvill

After recently doing the 160 mile ride a couple of weeks ago I decided that I was going to have a crack at riding a 200 miler! After speaking with my good buddy Alwyn and roping him in; I decided on June 7th and now I just needed to decide on potential route. A few … [Read more…]

Posted in: Cycling Gear, Cycling General, Nutrition, Sportive Tagged: Alford, Boston, Brandy Wharf, Castelli Gabba II, Double Century, featured, Frithville, Great Limber, Hot Foot, Jamaican Ginger Cake, Messingham, nutrition, Revesby, Skegness, Spridlington, Stow, Strava

Is Strava changing the way we ride our bikes?

May 23, 2015 by Paul Carvill

If you train with a GPS then you will no doubt be aware of Strava and the way it has quite simply changing the way we cycle. sträva is a Swedish word meaning to “strive for” or “aspire to” The simplicity of being able to upload/record your rides and then compare against your friends and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Cycling General, Strava, Technology, Training Tagged: Cycling Apps, KOM, Segment, Strava

Rapha 500

January 1, 2015 by Paul Carvill Leave a Comment

The Rapha 500 Challenge (500km between the 24th & 31st December 2014) has been around since 2010 and this year seemed to have me obsessed with completing! The weather seemed intent on saying otherwise with what seemed like a continual procession of icy  mornings! This seemed to spur me on even more and I found myself studying … [Read more…]

Posted in: Cycling General, Training Tagged: Century Ride, Icy Roads, Rapha 500, Strava, Winter Cycling

The Peak Distict Weekender with BDCC

December 1, 2014 by Paul Carvill Leave a Comment

I decided to organise a BDCC weekend away in the Peaks and get out to some of my old stomping ground back in the day when I lived in Buxton.

Posted in: Cycling General, Great Climbs, Training Tagged: BDCC, Beresford Tea Rooms, Bradwell, Buxton, Edale YHA, Goyt Valley, Hartington, Hathersage, Long Hill, Mam Nick, Moretti, Peak District, Ringinglow, Strava, Winnats Pass

Buxton Mountain Time Trial!

May 1, 2012 by Paul Carvill Leave a Comment

The ‘Buxton Mountain Time Trial (TT)’ organised by Buxton Cycling Club is an early season open TT over a very hilly circuit in the Peak District and is renowned as being one of the toughest time trials in the UK. The course is based round a circuit starting and finishing in the village of Longnor and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Cycling General, Great Climbs, Racing, Time Trial Tagged: Axe Edge, Buxton CC, GoPro, Longnor, Mountain TT, Strava
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