First published in The Huffington Post on 20 May 2015 Lessons from failure and success Supported by a fantastic team, my riding partner Charlie Mitchell and I broke the 49 year old record for cycling non-stop from Land’s End to John O’Groats on a tandem, shaving over 5 hours off the record to complete the […]

World record holder Dom Irvine gives us an update on life after the LEJOG. The soft patter of summer rain fell. I wended my way South onto the Jurassic coast eating up the miles in preparation for my next event, the 606km Ultracycling Dolomitica taking in 16,500m of climbing in the Dolomites in one sitting. […]

It’s funny how when you have to give a presentation on something it forces you to think really clearly about what you are trying to say. I was standing in front of the MSc students in Applied Sports Science at the University of Winchester persuading them that our Lands End to John O’Groats tandem record […]

As I retched for the umpteenth time and we were only 250 miles into our record attempt I was beginning to seriously question my sanity. It had seemed like such a good idea – break the tandem record from Lands End to John O’Groats, a record that has stood for an incredible 57 years and […]

Gosh! – was all Jonathan said as we slowed down riding into East Meon. He repeated the word several times before resuming a stunned silence. A keen runner who has taken up cycling, I’d offered to take him out on the tandem. It would give me more riding time on our new Orbit Lightning and […]