Category: cycling

  • 2.33 of cycling uphill

    . Streatley Hill. Video – Paul Jones Blog at Cycling Uphill

  • A visit to my old school

    I was recently invited to my old school – Bradford Grammar School – to give a lecture on economics. It was very interesting to return after a gap of one quarter of a century. (And it feels wonderful when you can start counting your life in decades rather than years.) In terms of my all […]

  • Matlock hills

    Fate keeps taking me back to Matlock. Aged 17, I took part in a school cricket tour based in Matlock. We drank a lot of beer and played a little bit of cricket. I wasn’t very good at playing cricket or drinking beer, so I never went on another cricket tour. A few years later […]

  • 12 hours of cycling

    Last weekend I rode my first 12 hour time trial championship. It was the National TT championships. I finished in 2nd place. This is photo by Vilas, who helped me through the day, passing bottles e.t.c. It is a different challenge to ride a 12 hour race, compared to short five minute hill climb. You […]

  • A good doping story – Mustafa Mohamed

    Two undercover journalists offered an Olympic hopeful athlete access to an elite training camp, where 15-20% of the camp profit would go to the company and that a doctor would be arranged to provide doping products. (1) The athlete, Mustafa Mohamed immediately said he was not interested, that he had never doped, and would never […]

  • The benefits of being thin

    I was re-reading A Corinthian Endeavour. It’s a curious mix of cycling champions – including some well known British cyclists like Chris Boardman, Malcolm Elliot and Darryl Webster, and then a tall thin chap who claims to eat a lot of cake. When I was young, there was a time when I wanted to put […]

  • The racing season

    The racing season starts in February / March. On Friday, I did third race of the season – Buxton Mountain Time Trial. I do most of my training on my own. It’s partly convenience of finding someone willing to go out at similar times and similar training efforts. But, also I quite like the solitary […]

  • Coverage from 2013 hill climb

    This is an article October 2013, from Cycling Weekly, after winning the National Hill Climb Championship. Prior to 2013, my best placed finish was 4th. In 2011, I had been one of favourites, but only finished 5th.  2013 was the ninth time I had entered the national hill climb championship; I guess it made a […]

  • Clip from British Time Trial Championship 2015

    In 2015, I entered the British Time Trial Championship. It was really expensive and awkward to enter. Usually I do time trials governed by Cycling Time Trials, a UK body. But, this race came under UCI rules – the International cycling body have strict rules about size and shape of bike parts. I had to […]

  • Doping and cycling

    I started watching professional cycling in the mid 1990s. One of my earliest memories was watching Bjarne Riis accelerating up a mountain  to defeat the five times winner Miguel Indurain. I didn’t know at the time, but Riis was doping on an industrial scale. His amazing speed was almost entirely due to the huge quantities […]