✅ Another Festive 500 ✅

I finished off 2024 the same way I have for the last few years, by completing the Rapha Festive 500. It’s a simple challenge on paper, ride 500km in the eight days from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Eve, but it can get tricky if you have a number of other commitments (or shocking weather)….

Rapha Festive 500: Ten top tips!

It’s December again. Yep. December. Again! Thoughts now turn to upcoming Christmas holidays, maybe a bit of time off work, and of course the Festive 500 challenge. The Festive 500 is a simple challenge – ride 500km (311 miles) in the 8 days from Christmas Eve to New Years Eve. Back in the day, all…

Have you set 2022 cycling goals yet?

We all need something to work towards. As athletes we strive to continually improve on our previous performances and tackle bigger challenges. It’s simply in our nature. As we edge day by day into 2022, have you set yourself some lofty cycling-related goals for this year? I haven’t given much thought to big 2022 goals…

May Round Up: A month of metric century rides

It seems I just can’t help myself. Even with winter just around the corner, it’s another month, another increasing distance total. For the previous two months now I’ve said that my monthly total would drop, but with every single month this year my mileage has surpassed the month before it! That has just GOT to…

Is 100km the rock star of road cycling distances?

One hundred kilometres. A shade over 62 miles in old money. The rock star of cycling distances. It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of the 100km ride. It’s why I started the Metric Century Challenge back at Woking CC in the UK and why I still challenge myself to complete at least one…

Fifty Thousand!

I was flicking through my Strava statistics earlier and realised that I recently rolled over my 50,000th kilometre! I did a bit of cycling before joining the GPS/Strava world but of course that doesn’t count, hehehe. Looking back, there have been countless great times in the saddle with hopefully many more to come! Anyway, I’ve…