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Some words written, lost and then found on my time spent racing in Luigiana.The lads had been riding all day. Keeping the day’s break within reach, the long turns they pull are testament to their...
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Article 3
With the title of team leader comes responsibility. The season may be a long one goes the adage. Full of important races, so they say. But ultimately there is something, put simply, special, about the...
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Article 2
Something I wrote for Leigh Day...Despite only being eighteen and without a great wealth of life experiences to draw on, I find huge satisfaction in retrospect. There is something quite special,...
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Article 1
Super excited to be riding for @BontragerCT next season! Really motivated to make the most of this amazing opportunity.— Tao Geoghegan Hart (@taogeoghegan) October 14, 2013I have been going through...
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Sat on my toptube, left foot still clipped in, heart racing a little. Taking in my surroundings.We had just ridden up a tiny little lane, the type that winds its way up the side of a hill at a...
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Footsteps
It is quite impossible to follow in the footsteps of your hero's in this sport. Not least because there are none, simply tire tracks, names sprayed on to Tarmac and old wives tales of days gone by. But...
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[Something I wrote a few weeks ago that has sat idle on my computer the past few weeks. Happy new year all!]My parents split over ten years ago and as a result I have always been well accustomed to...
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Recent press.
Rouleur Article 'An Education' Part OneProCycling Magazine Diarist Intro.[Click to enlarge]
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Sometimes you just believe you will pop something out.I hadn’t felt great all day but often I get that feeling from hiding in the wheels. I was however attentive and when I kicked over the top of the...
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Fiction.Barriers line the street and every hundred yards or so a wooden pole protrudes skyward, a speaker cable tied to the top. Infact everything seems to be cable tied; the sponsor banners, the wires...
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ProCycling Diary #1[click image to enlarge], http://tinyurl.com/procyclingmag
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I’ve never seen this before. It could be the same water, but for sure I’ve never seen it here. Its unfamiliarity gives it a difference, even if the breeze is just as fresh, the glisten just as blue....
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March and April
Cycling is a strange sport. One rider crosses the line, taking the plaudits and the glory, and yet it is a ‘team sport’. For it is near impossible to win without support in the professional peloton....
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Place
Her hand rests defiantly on the counter. I see her eyes deepen first; grooves wild and flaring in all directions sharpen and tense as I reach out. The door swings slow and burly on its hinges,...
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Place II
Is it a journey if you start and finish in the same place? Do you go anywhere?I travel between worlds. Sometimes dark and damp, moist, like an undisturbed morning dew. Sometimes old and familiar,...
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The towns were flooded with people. To the extent you wondered quite where they could have all come from.I think it is pretty rare that a town stands still, every person focusing on one thing. Bike...
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365
There is near nothing as unequivocally defining.And yet it changes every single day. Moving on as swift as a change in the wind. Silent and utterly unnoticeable, but to the few who put themselves out...
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Gently the steam starts to rise. Whisps silently meander upward and into the vacant high up reaches of the room, a thin film of cloud forming overhead.A minute passes, the pressure steadily...
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Speak to Aussie Freddy on the start line. I've not known him long but he seems a real good bloke.A few k in pass Geoff and ask how he feels. He says he doesn't have a chain and I know the feeling...
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'10km to go. A string of three up the right hand side of the road. Half the team. Small but compact. Small, but hopefully effective.Tight corner to the right. Dare not brake too early, dare not lose...
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Piece for 'Ape to Gentleman' website...“Cycling isn’t a game, it’s a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at...
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When travelling I think it is only natural to compare new places to home. Our origins form a baseline from which we naturally compare and on occasion shift. However for a Londoner, this act of...
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The gradient is about five percent, a road I know ever so well, one of my favourites. It lopes along, never strenuously, however continuous none the less, slowly winding up the mountainside. Except as...
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