RIDE IT/Evans Cycles Cambridge Cyclo-Sportive medium route; 63 miles/100 kilometres (this was actually two weeks ago, I've been slow at updating). My first 100k route, and I found it very hard going. I finished in 4:30:38, which was somewhere around 96th out of 300 entrants (approximate figures, since the results are a) ordered by start number and ( Read more... )

So, there was a Big Bike Ride. In my case this was big in terms of number of entrants rather than distance, since I did the 50 miles (225 riders) rather than the 100 (91 riders). Preparation was a bit less than ideal, thanks to my own impetuosity (and it being fiona_kitty's birthday party the night before); it was probably OK to do parkrun on the day before ( Read more... )

So I've proclaimed in a couple of places that I've made it a goal to ride the Étape du Tour in 2016. This requires a certain level of becoming a better cyclist, and to that end I've done various activities. I figured I might as well chronicle these in an attempt to give the impression that I'm capable of working towards a long-term goal, because it ( Read more... )