Do you “just” ride your bike? Or do you “just” run? If you do either with no thought to your technique, you’re certainly among the majority. Most of us in the triathlon world recognise very quickly that swimming is a very technique-dependent sport. And a whole industry has grown up with underwater cameras, endless pools, [...]

The Tour de France route for 2009 has been announced. And here it is. One notable feature about the 2009 tour is that it’s allegedly the first in which there will be a mountain stage on the penultimate day, and it’s the one to Mont Ventoux – so in the same way as this year, [...]

I had it marked in my diary, the date that the Tour de France & Etape routes would be announced. And either I was misinformed, or I made the old “hands like feet” clerical error, but heading off to the appropriate websites this morning, I found I was a bit late. So for those of [...]

Thanks to Graham for forwarding the course details for Vancouver to me. After a bit of fiddling about, I have as best I can, added this to mapmyride.com in order to get an idea of the course profile. And here it is… Vancouver Bike Route You’ll need to click on “Show Elevation” to view the [...]

You wake up on a morning and the weather is like… yesterday! It’s pouring with rain, the wind is bending the trees almost to horizontal and the stream at the bottom of the garden has swollen so much that it’s flowing over and around the weir rather than through its the channel. Worst of all, [...]