And so in a flash, it was over. No sooner had I handed back my hire bike, than I was already planning my return, promising myself I will...

I can't remember being so tired on a ride. Maybe last year on the day I got to Brussels. But this was a different beast. Today we...

For years I have heard people say that Girona is the capital of cycling in Spain. This is normally said by people who have heard about...

Think back to your first bike. Well perhaps not the first one with stabilisers or the one that you rode around your garden, street or...

Note: I wrote this the day after the C2C but didn't publish it. Something in the original version didn't feel right and so I left it in...

I’ve got a bad back. It’s been a problem for years. It has stopped me from training properly and sometimes from riding at all over the...

At times my cycling life has felt like an extended game of snakes and ladders, with every gain counter balanced by the ever present...

It’s a funny thing the mind. The mind that was telling me I was in pain and should abandon, was the same mind that an hour later was...

Because I am training for the C2C I can’t afford to come here, taper and then race and go home (listen to me trying to sound like I am...

Let's start with this: I know I am very fortunate to be here. Not lucky because I don't believe in luck except for when you win raffles...

There's a branch of psychology that deals with something called cognitive bias - this is basically all the unconscious things that...

Three weeks ago I wrote that I had got my mojo back. I hadn’t. I was just hoping it was true really. Sometimes we can lie to ourselves...

You have exactly as much will power as you think you have. I lost my cycling mojo. Since the start of the year I have been struggling...

Note: I know it looks like I haven't written anything in months, but I have. I just forgot to press the publish button! Yeah, yeah, yeah....

When a friend offers you a last minute opportunity to join him for a long weekend in Mallorca with work colleagues you don't turn it...

The recent Tour of Britain included a Team Time Trial that looked fantastic. A five man team pushing themselves to go as collectively...

Last night was another victory for me. This time in the weekly Club ‘Bash’. Not in absolute terms, because I am pretty sure came dead...