Sarah Kelman reports on her latest exploits: I continued my bid to earn the Audax UK “Randonneur Round the Year” in October with two 200km rides, and they could not have been more different. At the start of the month, I signed up for the new calendar event, the Cambridge […]
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by James Barlow and Ian Megginson I drove up Friday, with Phoebe and the twins, the weather was awful, I cycles back on Saturday, the weather was awful, the end! Not really, I got there Friday around 7pm, registered and picked up my bits. I was going to set my […]
I’ve generally gone off paying for sportive rides unless there’s something a bit different on offer, so this year I thought I’d take a day trip to France to savour the Le Classique sportive by UK Cycling Events. They threatened an early start in Dover to catch the ferry, and […]
o I have now completed L’Etape du Tour, the hardest stage of the Tour de France! The pros will be doing it this coming Saturday, so it will be worth watching and seeing how beautiful but tough the route is. As it happened it was somewhat less mountainous than expected […]
I took part in La Marmotte on the 2nd July. I arrived in Boug d’Oisans a few days before the event to acclimatize the legs and to ensure the bike set up was right. My acclimatization rides included Alp d’Huez, Glandon and Croix de Fer. The 107 mile event started […]
Last weekend I did the Eroica ride, 100miles on a 1980s Peugeot in vintage clothing as well, including off road sections on the trails. That bike has a smallest gear of 42/23, so the steeper hills (including Mam Tor) were a real struggle. I also had some minor mechanicals with […]