2018-09-18 15:46:50 - "If it keeps on (T)rainin' levee's goin' to break ..." Now it's getting near that time of year when many of you will have been training, racing and riding pretty hard...
2018-08-14 22:43:05 - As an almost stereotypical Middle-Aged Man in Lycra who returned to cycling after many, many years away the leaps and bounds of progress I'd seen were becoming less easy...
2018-04-20 15:58:21 - There are hundreds of training programs promoting incredible "breakthrough" benefits with power meters, lactate blood testing, HR zones, pedal vectors, periodization,...
2017-11-21 14:55:41 - There is so much confusion out there about Functional Threshold Power. Ask a group of riders what they think Functional Threshold Power is and you will probably get the...
2017-10-23 16:45:11 - I'm naked. Well, except for my bright yellow SpongeBob SquarePants briefs. Standing in front of a giant -150°C soda can that is about to open up and swallow me is...
2017-09-25 15:17:51 - One of the most difficult elements of cycling is learning the art of pacing - the ability to judge how hard to push so that you can cover the required distance as...
2017-09-12 15:16:43 - So, you're ready to go abroad. Cross a foreign bucket ride or two off your list. Maybe it's the exotic South American GFNY Brasil or L'Etape Wales in the UK. Or in my...
2017-06-24 21:24:43 - Stage 0 - Registration/Rider Orientation, June 23 Boulder, CO Haute Quote: "It's pronounced 'Oat Root', dammit." The Mavic Haute Route Rockies event village in Boulder...
2017-06-19 15:24:42 - With my Mavic Haute Route Rockies training done and dusted I start pulling together all the gear to get me through the event. Doing a week-long, point-to-point race...
2017-06-14 13:51:40 - Time to check out my equipment. Give it the once-over. Inspect, make adjustments, break stuff that previously worked fine and add unnecessary stress right before the...
2017-06-05 08:55:37 - REHEARSAL: a practice event that is done to prepare for the actual event that will happen in the future. With only a few weeks remaining I start my final preparation or...
2017-05-30 14:39:37 - Haute Route events are notoriously extreme, but with the 2017 Mavic Haute Route Rockies the crew at OC Sport is taking extreme to a whole new level. Blazing new ground....
2017-05-24 14:29:50 - Food. I love it. Buckets of it. I'll eat anything - apple cinnamon oatmeal, peanut butter n' jelly on homemade bread, German potato salad, falafels, green bean garlic...
2017-05-15 15:25:37 - 50,000 feet of climbing at the Mavic Haute Route Rockies is a big ask. With summits as high as 12,000 feet it's a huge, massive, big ask for me. Every stage, every day...
2017-05-09 10:44:46 - It's unbelievable. Simply amazing. The sun, moon, plants, stars work and wife are all in perfect alignment in June. Due to some crazy miracle, I have a week available to...
Ribble Cycles have launched a brand new range of gravel bikes...
Ribble Cycles have signed up as official bike partner for the...
Gran fondos, or, "great rides," as they're known in Italy,...
In the last year of the 19th Century, Marshall "Major" Taylor...
And now it is official. GFNY Santa Fe has been confirmed...
