It's almost December and the internet and social media are already full of training plans and motivational advice for completing the...

Over the weekend I went for a run with a good friend James over some hilly and boggy moorland in Cornwall. It was my first run for over...

I could present you with a carefully curated version of events in my blog. I could miss out all of the fuck up’s and give you an edited...

My first impressions after one month and 1500km with the Meteor Works Aesir

Photo courtesy of Northumberlense. Let's start with the numbers; Distance ridden: 800.5km! Meters climbed: 11,172 So somewhere we lost...

Yesterday before we had even finished the fantastic Tissington Trail I had already begun to feel the pang of regret that the adventure...

It's pretty clear to me now that the reason Komoot has the Pennine Cycle Way as the toughest in the UK is because of the unrelenting...

I have written a few times on this blog about long distance rides having both a mental and physical challenge. This is especially true of...

Today was supposed to be an easier day. Only half the distance of the previous four at just 50km. But it definitely didn’t feel like a...

The last time I rode up Hartside Summit was 8 years ago completing the Coast to Coast route over four days with my then 12 year old son,...

"Where are you heading" asked one of the Triumph motorcycle guys as he watched me put the bags on my bike. "Alston" I replied. "I hope...

"Oh shit. Am I going to die?" said Rachel in no way being over dramatic on finding out this ride would involve a lot of climbing (she...

Day one of our ride from Edinburgh to Berwick on Tweed

Somewhere around 10:30 on Friday night, on tiny lanes weaving their way through the Chiltern hills, in pitch black .....

I love new bike day. It makes me feel like a 12-year-old again, getting my first ‘racer bike’. Normally that moment is felt only by you...

Last week I finally did it, riding a 206km loop through Warwickshire and Leicestershire.

Note: I could have easily added links to Amazon to all of these books, but I won’t. I would rather encourage you to buy them or order...

How's your lockdown going? Obviously cycling doesn’t matter in the face of the daily tragedy of coronavirus. I'm not trying to diminish...

Everything has changed, hasn’t it? It seems incredible that whatever we each consider to be our normal life has been turned on its head...

This is a photo from one of my favourite ever rides in Mallorca with my eldest, Danny. He rode alongside me on a hybrid bike (in bloody...