Ten years ago in May 2016, I packed my bags for the very last time and headed to Heathrow Airport for the long flight all the way to Tasmania. After many incredible years living in England, my wife and I made the difficult decision to move back to Australia (but to the “most English” part…
Tag: road cyclist
The long road back to cycling fitness
After falling out of love with cycling for around six months, how did I get back here? If you missed part one of this series, you can check that our first here. As you can expect, not riding my bike for months had some pretty big consequences. My cycling fitness was in the weeds which…
Hitting 100,000km on Strava!
Last week, I logged my one hundred thousandth kilometre on Strava! That might not be a lot compared to some, but it’s certainly a milestone for me.
The disc brake generation
Something occurred to me the other day. A thought. There’s probably a whole new generation of road cyclists that have never ridden anything apart from disc brakes. Disc brake equipped road bikes have been around long enough as the “mainstream” braking option that anyone starting their road cycling journey in the last couple of years…
2022 Resolution Ride #10 – First long ride on the meds
I’ve actually completed a couple of hundreds this month, but this one was the first since moving onto my full medication regime. I rolled out with the intention to ride hard and see how my body (and mind) reacted to the longer endurance ride with some efforts thrown into the mix.
2022 Resolution Ride #09 – Dancing on the pedals
Ever have one of those days where everything just clicks? Where you’re simply dancing on the pedals and floating across the tarmac? It doesn’t happen often, but when it does, you just know. My ride did not start that way, in fact it started early when the temperature was barely nudging 5 degrees. I couldn’t…
Two Wheels with TC 