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Objectives for 2014

My '2013 Season Summary' (Link) affirm to me that 2013 has been a pretty decent year, in fact, a pretty awesome year. Yes, there we...

Last November I wrote a post on Objectives for 2013: In and Out of the saddle , so with the 2013 season now done and dusted and the start of...

When you turn up to a race and find out that the race before yours on the same circuit had 25 punctures, it doesn't bode well. When your...

Today Sam and I travelled to Bletchingly in Surrey for my second Surrey League road race this season. It would be fair to say it was a hot a...

Yesterday I travelled to Leigh in Surrey to do the Redhill E.1.2 road race. I knew it was going to be tough. It was. I was the only Wightlin...

This afternoon we were back in Winchester for the second Omega circuits Criterium race at the Winchester Park and Ride. I came away with a s...

This afternoon the Wightlink-LCM Systems race team travelled to a car park in Winchester to race... Yes, we literally were racing round the ...

Yesterday I turned a corner. A corner that I have been anticipating for a long time; the end of my time at university, the end of my exams, ...

I travelled to Loughborough this morning to take part in a 54 mile road race run by Loughborough Uni on the same course as the BUCS road rac...

In my second article for Spin Cycle Magazine I talk about the tactics and emotions of the peloton. The full issue can be downloaded for FREE...

If you live in the South of England and looked out the window yesterday evening, you'd probably think that that you would be mad to get ...

I was told that Milland Hill was a tough circuit, nothing quite prepared me for the 25 percent gradient though, nor for the fact that we had...

You've put a lot of work in preparing for your race; long hours on the bike in the winter weather, tough turbo sessions and a good attem...

Follow every move and one of them had better work. That was the motto I adopted in today's race over at the Portsmouth Mountbatten track...

My first race of 2013 was at the Portsmouth Mountbatten track; Elite, 1st and 2nd Cat. racing in torrential rain, strong winds and freezing ...

If you've seen the film 'A Beautiful Mind' or you've done a bit of industrial economics or even gambling, then you might hav...

Thanks to Jack Elton-Walters, one of my team mates from the Isle of Wight, who has put together this fantastic post to mark the launch of th...

2012 Totals Total Hours Riding Time: 632 Total Miles: 10,568 Average Heart Rate: 144bpm Average Speed (On-Road): 19mph Average Cadence: 85r...

Last week I gave a summary of my " 2012 Season Objectives: What did I tick off? ", it's now time to look forward to 2013 and s...