Gethin Howells – The gravel enthusiast Howells bought his first road bike 13 years ago to train for mountain biking then realised he was much better on the road than the dirt. The cardiac physiologist and third cat racer decided to do the CW5000 because “I like figures, i like a target”. “It helps me […]
Happy new year and welcome to the first of your 2021 challenges. Once again, well done to everyone who hit the 5,000-mile mark last year. We had lots of you contacting us to tell us you’d completed it right up until the end of December. We’re still working through the emails and updating the finishers […]
This summer 32-year-old Scot Davy Zyw rode the North Coast 500 for charity — 500 miles around the coast of Scotland — in four days. Good going, you might think. Add to that the amount he raised: £150,000 and still rising. For a non-celebrity, that’s pretty astonishing. But there’s more. Zyw has motor neurone disease. […]
This year April Tacey made history as both the first woman to win a stage of the Virtual Tour de France in July. With a perfectly timed sprint and a judicious use of a power-up (that’s the way racing works in the virtual world, in case you’re not familiar folks) she blasted past some of […]