I decided in the week it was time to do a ‘big ride’ and speaking with my old pal Alwyn Jones we picked the ‘Big G’ sportive route to do on top of our cycle over there (Alwyn had done this route a couple of times already).
I don’t think I have ever trained so hard over a Christmas period and this year seemed to be one icy morning after the next!! Me and Derrick Kent decided to do a big one and meet at Lidl just after 7am. Derrick was riding in from Hibaldstow and being in winter we both needed lights … [Read more…]
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…]