15. The Road To PBP
… a finish in time was currently out of the question, PBP was gone and this route had beaten me again…
Read More 15. The Road To PBPa 35km commute to ultra-distance racing
… a finish in time was currently out of the question, PBP was gone and this route had beaten me again…
Read More 15. The Road To PBPI was now 560 km in and without sleep for 37 hours. It there and then dawned on me: perhaps I was finally becoming the animal I’d for so long dreamt of being.
Read More 13. One Thousand Lessons“How are you”, asked Tom. “I feel like I’m going to throw up”, I said, which was true.
Read More 12. Four Hundred And Forty Six Point EightThings were coming undone for me in lots of different ways at once and I had trouble dealing with all of it at the same time. I went to see the GP and it was all I could do not to break down in front of her. She only looked about 17.
Read More 11. Phoenix RisingI was on my bike, in the sunshine, in the fens, where I had promised us both we would one day ride together. There is a moral to that story for all of you; make sure you water the plant while its alive.
Read More 10. Tears for WojtekNearly meeting inspirational people, idiocy, crushed technology, fabulous volunteers, a most helpful Oxford bike shop man called Joshua. Fields, exhaustion and a distressed teenager.
Read More 9. London-Wales-LondonThe wind howled angrily and with purpose into my left side as the aerobars whistled their ghostly tune.
Read More 8. The Road to HullWith 70km to go, the only good points on offer from the rain were a) it was good training for foul weather in the TCR, and, b) I got to try out that hideously expensive waterproof jacket I bought recently.
Read More 7. Beyond 200My packing strategy wasn’t looking good for my plans to do the Transcontinental Race, where people hack their toothbrushes in half, just to save a bit of weight and room.
Read More 6. In the beginning, there was AudaxThere was much faffing to be done with the Garmin, since I hadn’t put the maps on it before leaving. Who knows why; I mean, why didn’t I do it? The cottage had no WiFi, and only a tiny bit of 3G if you stood in the right spot, with the moon in the right place, etc.
Read More 5. Elevation