Mar 5, 2021 | Fitwins Virtual Challenge, Road Cycling
Fitwins Virtual Challenges: FITWINS means winning physically, winning mentally, taking on a challenge and smashing your goals. Throughout 2020, as well as my usual riding on Zwift, I was also taking on a number of Virtual Challenges. These included, Lands End to John...
Feb 11, 2021 | Road Cycling, Zwift
Zwift is a popular multiplayer online, cycling and running, physical training programme that enables users to interact, train and compete in a number of virtual worlds. It was founded in 2014 and the first ‘beta’ version was available in Sept 2014. A fully-fledged...
Oct 24, 2020 | Cycling, Road Cycling, Road Racing, The Rules, Velominati
Moving on from my original article in September 2017, I thought we would revisit “The Rules – The Way of the Cycling Disciple.” As a reminder, there are 95 Rules contained in the book, that all cycling enthusiasts are encouraged to follow. However, many of the Rules...
Nov 10, 2019 | Cold Weather, Hydration, Road Bikes, Road Cycling, Water
October has rolled around again, and here in the UK, we are having one of those ‘early winter’ freezing weeks. The wind in coming down from the Arctic, and to say that it is ‘cold’ is an understatement. I accept that we don’t have anything like the winters in Canada...
Oct 25, 2019 | Cycling, Mark Cavendish, Tour of Britain
I’m a great fan of the Tour of Britain, and have followed it from the early days of The Milk Race. The 2019 Ovo Energy Tour of Britain was an eight-stage men’s professional road cycling race. It was the sixteenth running of the modern version of the Tour of...
