Well, apart from the shock to the system of the 6:30am start, the crappy road services again and reacquainting myself with hills, that...

I started day 12 of my ride sitting in the sun in the market square in Salisbury sipping coffee and watching the world go by. This is a...

I could present you with a carefully curated version of events in my blog. I could miss out all of the fuck up’s and give you an edited...

Photo courtesy of Northumberlense. Let's start with the numbers; Distance ridden: 800.5km! Meters climbed: 11,172 So somewhere we lost...

Yesterday before we had even finished the fantastic Tissington Trail I had already begun to feel the pang of regret that the adventure...

It's pretty clear to me now that the reason Komoot has the Pennine Cycle Way as the toughest in the UK is because of the unrelenting...

I have written a few times on this blog about long distance rides having both a mental and physical challenge. This is especially true of...

Today was supposed to be an easier day. Only half the distance of the previous four at just 50km. But it definitely didn’t feel like a...

The last time I rode up Hartside Summit was 8 years ago completing the Coast to Coast route over four days with my then 12 year old son,...

"Where are you heading" asked one of the Triumph motorcycle guys as he watched me put the bags on my bike. "Alston" I replied. "I hope...

"Oh shit. Am I going to die?" said Rachel in no way being over dramatic on finding out this ride would involve a lot of climbing (she...

Day one of our ride from Edinburgh to Berwick on Tweed