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 […]

The business of performance It’s not the greatest recipe for the composition of a team trying to break one of the oldest records in cycling – the tandem Lands End to John O’Groats record. Despite repeated assaults, this 49 year old record has resolutely resisted assaults by truly gifted athletes like James Cracknell and others. […]

I looked at the training session scheduled by Dr Simon Jobson of the University of Winchester – it roughly translated into four hours of varying levels of efforts (mostly intense) up hills. I looked at the weather forecast: Heavy rain, winds SSW 30mph gusting 45mph. It was 5:30am. What I should have done was roll […]