Tag: cycling

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Col du Tourmalet with Peace Run

    Col du Tourmalet with Peace Run

    A few weeks ago I was in the south of France for a weekend with the British and French Sri Chinmoy Centres. We were also joined by members of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run. I’ve always wanted to cycle in the Pyranees, so I took my bike. A good combination of circumstances allowed me […]