Yorkshire, the land of rolling hills, is always a lovely place to visit and luckily we have friends who live there, so we like to go as often as possible and enjoy their hospitality. Enter Sandy, my trusty sidekick. I left the cycle route planning to him as I usually do when we visit. However, […]
Alps 2016 Mountain Profiles
Following on from my last post I decided to add the profiles of the mountains we will be taking on. I tried using a number of route planning software solutions but there’s really nothing to beat Veloviewer So here they are: Day 3 – Mont Ventoux Day 4 – Alpe D’Huez Day 5 – Lacets […]
Alps 2016
It’s time to let the cat out of the bag. I’ve been training for a few months now, and trying to lose a few kilos all in the aid of taking on some of the more iconic Tour de France climbs. Now, if you recall from my oh so infrequent posts I can’t, in any […]
Radar Love
We have a plan, improve our climbing. Simple. Sandy and I had agreed that we needed to do some serious work on our climbing ability. We both need different things, I’m more of a steady slope climber whereas Sandy likes the short sharp climbs. Don’t get me wrong, neither of us are climbers. I for […]
Garmin Edge Navigation Hell
I have always loved the idea of sitting down in front of the computer and mapping out a route that takes in some new roads that I’ve never cycled before. The idea of exploring new places while out on the bike enjoying the fresh air, or rain and wind as is usually the case, anyway […]
Hill Training (Part 1)
Saturday April 11 The past few weekends have been dedicated to some hill training (and one sportive) in an effort to get Sandy into shape for his Madrid to Lisbon cycling holiday. We started with what should have been the easiest route. Although it included a lot of climbing, it didn’t have any single long […]