I have to admit that getting out of bed on Saturday morning was somewhat of a battle. My legs felt like lead and even after a shower, cereal, pasta and 3 cups of tea, I still felt lousy.

In an attempt to increase my mileage at a weekend, I decided to ride to Ponteland instead [...]

Tonight was my first ever time trial – a Tyneside Vagabonds 10 mile club TT.

I had 2 targets.

1) Beat 34 minutes
2) Not come last

To be honest, the evening didn’t start off particularly well. I completely misread the club secretary’s (Roger) instructions and sat nervously playing the drums on my steering [...]

After a fast and difficult ride last week taken by Wilf and Hugh, I was expecting this week to be slightly less demanding as Elaine was taking it. My first ever club ride was taken by Elaine and to date, it was my favourite – going up through Capheaton to Kirkharle. However, either I’ve upset [...]