Liège-Bastogne-Liège: a classic hat-trick at La Doyenne
I can’t say I hadn’t been warned. My mate Sean had completed the 153km Liège-Bastogne-Liège (LBL) challenge last year and all of…
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Flanders, schmanders… Can Olly clean the Ronde van Calderdale?
As a keen sportivista and lover of cobbles/pavé/kasseien, I’ve been lucky (or mad?) enough to ride the Tour of Flanders sportive…
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Mallorca 312 report: If you only ride one 193-mile sportive, make it this one
It’s not often you start a sportive wondering not ‘How fast will I finish?’ but ‘Can I finish this?’ That was the…
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L’Ariégeoise XXL: this ‘secret’ sportive deserves to be a classic
Last December I had another of those moments where I lost all rational thought, like I had a few weeks earlier…
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Wind, rain and frog: Wiggle Mendips Sportive report
The Wiggle Mendips Sportive on 2 July had the potential to turn into a multi-sport event: cyclists encountered outdoor table tennis,…
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All the passes, one fell swoop: Fred Whitton 2016 report
The first hurdle in the Fred Whitton Challenge is entering the event. The 112-mile sportive, which packs in nearly 4,000m of…
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Riding the rocky road: Tour of Flanders sportive report
As I sit down to write about the 2016 Tour of Flanders, I realise it is exactly one year ago that…
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One Dam Wet Ride: Etape Mourne sportive report
It began on a VERY wet Sunday morning… The sound of the rain woke me early, consequently it wasn’t merely a…
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Riding Norway’s Alpe d’Huez: Lysebotn-Bryne Rittet 2015
When people think of sportives abroad, the mind shoots straight to the Alps, the Pyrenees or the Dolomites. La Marmotte, the…
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Hills, thrills and spills: Cowal Peninsula Sportive report
On the way to the inaugural Cowal Peninsula Sportive, my club mate David asked how I could write about this event…
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