What is Alan Hinkes up to at the moment? … and other questions
Traffic – is that the right way to describe people? – to this blog arrives via a plethora of web searches. Handily, WordPress lists these terms. Many are questions: some […]
Category Archives: Cycling
Back to the Fellsman
I have been back to Fellsman country: that April-time place of 61 miles of running, 13 hours of pain and pleasure, self-doubt and wonderment. I was on a bicycle this time. […]
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Marble Arch to Arc de Triomphe – 300 miles of running, rowing and cycling
Party poopers. That’s the French. We had run 90 miles in relay from Marble Arch in Central London to Dover; we had rowed 26 painful miles across a lumpy, brown […]
London to Paris: running, rowing and cycling – please sponsor!
PLEASE SPONSOR TEAM ARCH TO ARC HERE Remember comedian John Bishop crossing the English Channel in a rowing boat to raise money for Sport Relief? Bishop raised more than £3million for […]
Mallorca: the cycling bit
I didn’t want to go to Mallorca. I wanted to go to Tenerife. I wanted to go to Tenerife to climb 3718-metre Pico de Teide, and thus have stood on […]
A mini-Welsh adventure
The first thing – and it really is the very, very first thing – you notice when you return to London from cycling pretty much anywhere in the UK that […]
Mont Ventoux
There is something extraordinarily compelling about Mont Ventoux – a mountain of pain, a mountain of victory, a mountain of ghosts. The ascent – 1617m over 21.8km – is one […]
Botley Hill
I’ve no desire to climb all the Marilyns - UK hills and mountains with a drop of at least 150 metres on all sides, meaning summits of the ilk of Cairn […]
Bicycles, Brighton and origami canoes
Origami – the traditional Japanese art of folding paper – has never appealed to me. That was until someone came up with the idea of an origami canoe, although made […]
‘Lycra ponce’
I am a victim of road rage. Me, a humble, law-abiding – most of the time – London cyclist. I had weaved to the front of a queue of traffic heading north […]
Highland Cross 2010
DREAM TEAM aka Young, Gifted and Old – MacIntyre, MacRae, Muir. First overall gents team Highland Cross 2010. Cramp. I’ve had cramp before, close to the end of marathons or […]
Coll
I have now visited 10 islands – Arran, Holy Island, Bute, Colonsay, Oronsay, Islay, Jura, Mull, Coll and Tiree – and Coll is the one that has come closest to […]
