Beware the BHAG
"You know what we need?!" Said the wide eyed Product Manager who had clearly had too much coffee at the morning tea break, not to mention too many muffins that year. I winced, as I knew what was coming down the...
Take the Pain you Fat Pig
Stage 15 of the 1998 Tour de France... A 189km Buffet of pain and suffering that included leg shattering beasts such as Croix de Fer, Telegraphe, Galibier, and a mountain top finish at Les Deux Alpes. It doesn'...
Road to TP update
Tick tock... I've talked about the inevitable march of time before, but even then Trans Provence has seemed like an extremely distant blur on the horizon, usually accompanied by the passing thought of "got plen...
Block by Dirty block
Someone asked me the other day "What are you doing for Training to become full ENDURO?", to which my brain instantly translated into "Please write a really long and mildly useful post about your week", so on th...
The Drawing Board
As I mentioned the other day, resolutions are a waste of time, but planning adventures is so totally hot right now. The other thing that gives me some dirty movement is setting a Vision or a Goal and then going...
Hit me with the rhythm stick
Just a little mid week post with a cautionary tale to break up the yawn of being global hubbed and working etc. The first round of trips in the DN Northern Hemisphere summer tour (fuck I need a better name for ...
I love it, I love it not…
Like with all things that we love, there are elements that we decidedly unlove in amongst all the goodness. Road Cycling is reasonably generous in this regard, here are some of my favourite pet hates from the R...
Training Day
Every day is Training day at the moment... Well, aside from Monday, but 6 days a week its going down:
"See, this is how the interval session is going to go down motherfucker"
You may have noticed a trend...
Discipline for the discipline
Details remain mysteriously scarce as to the composition of the DN Summer Tour, with good reason may I add (actually, I just can't be fucked booking accom and organising stuff), but we continue to plug away at ...
Suffering and Visitors (no connection)
Well, with the 100th post having more fever than Len Brown at Friday night drinks, its hard to back it up when I am currently just training hard(ish) for 5 Passes and Tour of Bintan. This week has all been abou...