Tag Archives: climb
Ride with Wiggo
After starting cycling when Team Sky formed the chance to “Ride with Wiggo” in a sportive was too much to turn down – at the time I signed up Brad was on track to go well in the Tour so … Continue reading
Tour of Flanders 2012
Regular readers will have picked up that the Tour of Flanders is my favourite race of the year. Some say, ‘if it’s not broke don’t try and fix it’, so moving the finish to Oudenaarde and taking out the Muur … Continue reading
My first competition
At the beginning of October the cycling club I have been riding with, Harry Middleton CC (see earlier blog about joining a club), organised a club hill climb challenge. This is annual event towards the end of the season had … Continue reading
Lewis Balyckyi Memorial Ride
Most of the sportives I have been on have been in my diary for months meaning a training regime working towards it was worthy of mention. However with regular riding when I saw a number of high profile British cycling … Continue reading
Polocini-Kegs and Legs
Cycling and beer – a perfect combination? Rather than do two blog posts I intend to review and share my experience in one post. Polocini are a relative new “sportive” business, I believe they ran a couple of sportives last … Continue reading
Cheshire Cat Sportive – my experience
So to my personal experience of the Cheshire Cat, the opening spring sportive. This point was rammed home as due to clocks going forward the night before I climbed out of bed with my alarm clock reading 5:30am asking myself … Continue reading
Tour of Flanders 2011
My office is situated in the very first building you pass as you enter the Port of Dover. From my office window I can see every vehicle as it is driven into the Port prior to boarding a ferry. All day … Continue reading
Gent-Wevelgem 2011
I first attended Gent-Wevelgem six or seven years ago when I realised just how close to Calais the race passed and have returned every year since. It was, until last year, one of my favourite races but in an attempt … Continue reading
Tour de Suisse 2010
After watching the final stage of the Criterium Dauphine we started our journey towards Switzerland for the Tour de Suisse. We spent Sunday night in a car park on the banks of Lake Geneva (due to lack of specific camping … Continue reading
Liege Bastogne Liege 2010
Thursday drove from Huy and arrived at La Redoute climb around lunchtime. The first third of the climb has been designated as a motorhome parking area, the rest of the climb is barriered off at both ends and has been … Continue reading