The event

For the past year I’ve been training for London Edinburgh London, a 1,600km Audax which goes from nearly London to nearly Edinburgh, and back to nearly London. Its an event which only …

This was the first major ride for me after having James. In fact this was one of the first rides I had done in a very long time, as finding opportunities to leave the house have been rare. Occasional …

This year has been a bit of a flop for me in terms of cycling. I had set out to achieve the Super Randonneur 2500 award, aiming to complete a series of audaxes: 200km, 300km, 400km, 600km, and …

After seeing a tandem at the start line of North Cape, we’ve both been curious about them. The reading I’ve seen says that they are faster on the flats and downhills due to the increased …

Let’s do a little Agile Cycling and have a retrospective on our ride. For the none technical readers a retro is a time at the end of a coding period where the team gets together to discus and …

We woke up this morning with the bike still outside, and even nicely sheltered from the overnight rain.

But it’s with a heavy heart that we must say that we’re scratching from the event😞. …

This morning we pried ourselves out of the lovely cosy apartment in Leige. Wearing our clean nice smelling kit, Ok maybe just less bad smelling.

Last night was fantastic, there is a lot to be said for …

After a long day yesterday, we set off a little later, combining with a trip to the Lidl opposite for breakfast coffee and road snacks.

Within 10mins we had cycled to the French/Belgium border. There …

It’s fair to say that the last couple of days have got me down a little. The rain in Paris put a real dampener on my mood, my clothes and little used camping equipment. Along with the punctures. …

A lazy start to the day, after a serious discussion about timings; a friend has calculated we would need to do 255km a day to get to North Cape, and our longest day stands at 165km; it just wouldn’t …