This is an introduction to a feature written for and published by the Global Cycling Network. I met route planner and ultra-endurance cyclist Markus Stitz at his event in Scotland, the Dunoon Dash, and asked him for his tips on…
I’ve put this page here in case I decide to post extra stuff from this year. We’ll see how busy I am in the winter I suppose.
In April 2022, I left London for a summer season job in Greece. I worked for 9 months as a bike guide in Vasiliki, a famous windsurfing bay on an island in the North West of the country. While I…
John and Ann Jurczynski have dominated the tandem category at Paris-Brest-Paris since 2015, but in 2021, a life-threatening crash put it all in the balance Paris-Brest-Paris might not, technically, be a ‘race’, but there’s no getting away from the fact…
We found out first hand how tough it is to support the best ultra-distance cyclists in the world. To get on the podium at ultra-distance events like Paris-Brest-Paris, you need to ride for almost two days virtually without unclipping your…
I’ve been working as a writer/journalist for the Global Cycling Network since January, and the GCN news website launched in late August 2023. This is a small collection of only my favourite features I have written for GCN. Most are…
Now I know that if these emails are anything to go by, unemployment is one big holiday. But I spent last Thursday morning spreading horse manure over Mum’s allotment. So there. And as I scraped the horse shit across the frozen…
Last week, I found out what it’s like being a house cat. Hannah invited me up to Aberdeen for the week, and for those few blissful days I was the ‘house man’: needy; domesticated; reasonably well trained. Hannah was out…
Having spent 6 years living in London, among go-getters and city slickers, I thought I’d seen the fastest walkers the UK had to offer. But this weekend in St Andrews has shown that the truly speedy pedestrians live north of…
I arrived in Manchester airport on Thursday night to a truly quintessential English welcome. I went to sit down in the railway station, when someone said I should probably move: some kids were above us, on the balcony of the…
