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Peak District Cycle Routes: Ashbourne – Ilam – Calton – Ashbourne

Do you ever feel frustration when searching for cycle routes on the internet? I do. I struggle to find courses that have been properly curated and accurately described. When looking at a Jackson Pollock of route markers on a website, it’s difficult to decide whether the route is suitable for me. There has to be a better way than Google Streetview-ing my way around the A roads of England in order to find my perfect cycle loop. Oh yay! Oh yay! The rot stops here. At least for the people Read more [...]

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Where To Find Cycling Training Plan Information

There is only so much progress you can make in your quest for cycle fitness simply by riding further and for longer. At a certain point, your training will need to become more structured and specific, if you want to maximise your performance at whatever cycling challenge you have set yourself (and by ‘your’, I of course mean ‘my’). In this post I will identify the resources that you can use either to find a suitable training plan (be that prêt-à-porter or bespoke) or, alternatively, Read more [...]

Sportive review: Igloo Peak District Sportive

This is the first of what will hopefully become a series of posts reviewing the sportives in which I have taken part (I say, ‘hopefully’, because it will rely on me pulling my finger out and doing more events!). My aim is to give you a flavour of the event, so you can decide whether you’d like to do this event, or a similar one, in the future. The account is clearly based on my personal experience of the sportive, and is probably heavily coloured by my low level of experience and fitness. Read more [...]