This last week I’ve been staying in Mijas in Andalusia, Spain with a hired Road Bike and , well let’s just say I’ve been dealt a lesson or 2 in realism ! 16th March 2024 – THE PLAN The background to this trip then : As you will know from previous blogs I suffered a […]

My own journey from Couch Potato to LEJOG can be replicated by anyone , IF you don’t define “Adventure” by the amazing stuff the likes of Bear Grylls and the like get up to on TV. 19TH JANUARY 2024 Adventure. For many that word is depicted in TV documentaries while we lounge on our sofa

December 8th 2023 If you read my blog a few weeks ago you will know that right now, if I was thinking about setting Cycling targets for next year just getting back on my bike and doing straight forward club rides would probably be a sensible choice. Especially following my surgeon’s go ahead to start

17th November 2023 The purpose of this isn’t really to inform or entertain anyone who might come across it. Really it’s for my own benefit hoping it might be a cathartic exercise to pull me out of my current low mood, or even to just look back on and remind myself in the future how

November 13th 2023 I’m a little late writing this as it is already past Remembrance weekend but it is NEVER the wrong time to remember or talk about the people who gave the biggest sacrifice. This IS a cycling Blog so what do the 2 subjects have to do with cycling ? More than some

28th October 2023 Coventry, England For those who have read the France End To End blogs, the title of this one will not be a surprise. It was no secret that an injury blighted my preparation and that surgery was booked for 26th October, but when I look at these 2 photos with just 3

7th October 2023 Castellane To Nice So I’m sitting here a day after we finished in Nice, looking back on a very special day which ended in Hot and Sunny glorious weather on the coast but began up on the higher ground in Castellane where extra layers were donned as we left our hotel in

6th October 2023 Moustiers-Ste-Marie To Castellane The slog of yesterday was forgotten very quickly this morning. This ride has to be one of the most beautiful I’ve ever done and boy do we deserve that after all the hard work to get here, at least for me anyway. And the hard work continued right from

5th October 2023 Sault To Moustiers- Sainte Marie . We had an 80 mile ride 2 days ago and 70 today and in between we climb Mont Ventoux. Such is the nature of my lack of training, and the bit of hill climbing training I managed in August I’d take the Ventoux day every time.

4th October 2023 Malaucene to Sault Well no prizes for guessing what today’s blog features. The entire ride was about Mont Ventoux, the “Beast of Provence” and the bucket list ambitions of a bunch of “ordinary” people on bikes just like me, attempting to do something pretty extraordinary beyond our own personal limits and comfort