A little over a week ago I took part in my first competitive cycle race, meaning I can now officially refer to myself as a competitive cyclist (something I have been doing daily since). I won’t lie, I was nervous going into the peloton having witnessed several high-profile crashes on the Tour de France and having previously experienced the consequences of falling at high speed. I had also trained very little the preceding weeks, or at least, very little compared to what I exp

For the third year running, at the end of May I went to the good old U S of A for the annual American College of Sports Medicine conference. This year it was held in Denver, Colorado and within hours of touching down on American soil, unsurprisingly, I was pootling around on two wheels. I had brought my little lady Luana along for good company, and we set about seeing as much of the city and surroundings as possible. Day one (Denver – Boulder – Denver: 114.9 km) Having picked