You know, it really was the 8th interval that got me today. Until then I was in pain and suffering but still going ok. However as I turned the corner on that fateful 8th interval my legs instantly started complaining and the smooth pedal circles I’d been pedaling turned awfully square. The pain seemed so terrible yet [...]
Happy New Year everyone, I hope Christmas treated you well and you enjoyed the festive week and got in a lot of riding. As you may be aware I kind of dropped the ball in terms of blogging taking a two week holiday but you can now expect more frequent blog posts, hopefully twice a [...]
Rider: Eddy Merckx As we draw to the end of the Christmas countdown we see that Eddy Merckx was the most victorious cyclist ever with 333 road victories during his career. There is little to say about Eddy Merckx as his palmares are complete barring one race which was Paris-Tours. Fellow Belgian Noel Vantyghem said famously, “Between [...]
This is a guest post from Dad. Thanks Dad for writing it. Enjoy! Also thanks to Climbing Cyclist for the wonderful picture. Please check out his blog which is a plethora of knowledge about Victorian climbs at http://theclimbingcyclist.com/ It was bound to happen, eventually. There had been signs for a while, in fact – a [...]
Today I rode my third Amy’s Ride. Amy’s Ride is a charity event used to raise money for road safety. Amy Gillet as you may well know was a professional womens cyclist. Her life was tragically cut short when she was killed training on German roads. The Amy Gillet Foundation seriously promotes road safety and they hold [...]
