11th August 2018 – The Tokyo Olympics Men’s and Women’s road race courses have just been officially announced. Please check out this new post with the details of the update routes.
Month: February 2017
First Time Using A Cycling Coach – Preparing for a Gran Fondo/Sportive
Despite taking up cycling at the tender age of 13 (30 years ago!) and doing numerous types of racing over the years, I’ve never actually done anything that resembled structured training in any way. The closest thing I’ve done is go out attacking local Strava hill segments for a summer on the run up to the 2014 Hill Climb season. So, with an Italian Gran Fondo in the diary for early March as a target I thought it was a great opportunity to hook up with a coach and see what gains can be made from a more structured approach. Spoiler alert, it helps, a lot.