We surveyed 100 people… Yep! 100 of you lot have responded to my survey to help me plan my challenge for Biggest Journey 2013. So, I thought I should share the results. Distance – 37% said they were comfortable cycling distances of around 100 miles… However, another 30% suggested 50 – 70 miles. Experience – A [...]
It’s been a wee while since I completed my Biggest Journey challenge… which was a huge success in all ways. I’m yet to write up a report of the whole thing and, to be honest, I was so overwhelmed by everything that I kinda needed a bit of a break from it all and concentrate [...]
On Tuesday 26th June, I held a live twitter Q&A discussion about my biggest journey, how it went, and what was behind it…. read the whole conversation below, with a few extra comments and some pics thrown in. #bigjourneytalks Evening twitter…. how are you ? Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share [...]
Graeme Obree Has been one of my heroes and biggest influences in my passion for cycling, since I was 18, before he went public about his own mental illness and before I knew much about mine. Graeme is well known for both his incredible achievements in cycling, and openness about his experiences of mental distress. [...]
Scott at Velocast ran this up for me after I suggested an infographic type thing might be good for a banner to use at public speaking events… I like it so much I thought I’d post it on here, so you can all like it, share it, pin-it, etc. It pretty much somes up everything [...]
With just over a week to go before starting Biggest Journey, this is the last weekend of serious training before tapering off the efforts to make sure my legs are well rested before the off. So, with that in mind, I need to make it count. There are some cracking roads in Scottish Borders, and [...]
As my Biggest Journey challenge draws closer, I really need to start raming up the mileage in my training. This weekend I gave it a real good kicking with over 140 miles covered in the 2 days – 90 miles from Innerleithen to Dalbeattie, with a couple of detours, on Saturday and then 50 miles [...]
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