Road cycling and suffering are intrinsically linked. To get faster, you have to ride harder, to ride harder you have to be prepared to suffer on the bike. Over the years I’ve learnt to love and embrace the suffering. I love to ride so hard that the only thing I can feel or think about…
Month: January 2021
This is 40
Pardon my French, but how the actual flying fire truck did that happen?!?! Forty freakin years old already?!?! Sometimes it quite literally feels like I’ve been living as a 20-year-old for the past 20 years and then BAM! Forty… There’s no denying I am deep into MAMIL territory now. I’m there. I don’t feel forty….
2021 Resolution Ride #01 – Setting power PB’s to kick off the new year
Back on it like a boss! So here we are again. Another year and another Resolution Ride challenge! We’re keeping the same format as last year with the aim to ride one metric century (100km) each month throughout 2021. With fine weather and a little bit of free time, it’d be rude of me not…
HOW TO: Back up your ENTIRE Strava activity history
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably got several years and several thousand kilometres of history on your Strava account. You take it for granted that it’ll be there, available at any time for you to browse past rides, check on personal bests or compare yearly totals. But have you ever thought about what would…