Cycling

This post is all about our club trip to go cycling in Wales, it's a beautiful place to ride! The club, in this case, is Stoney Stanton Velo club, a club I've proudly been a member of for the last 4 years. A few months ago, one of our members, Ryan, posted on the club site to ask if anyone was interested in a trip to Wales for two days of cycling. The answer was of course a resounding yes! Six of our club members were up for the challenge! The trip was to include no less than six of…

This post is all about our club trip to go cycling in Wales, it's a beautiful place to ride! The club, in this case, is Stoney Stanton Velo club, a club I've proudly been a member of for the last 4 years. A few months ago, one of our members, Ryan, posted on the club site to ask if anyone was interested in a trip to Wales for two days of cycling. The answer was of course a resounding yes! Six of our club members were up for the challenge! The trip was to include no less than six of…

After months of training and a great ride to the lighthouse at Cap de Formentor, the big day had finally arrived, we were going to be riding Mallorca 312! The ride starts at 7am, with gates opening at 6am to queue. With the cutoff time being fixed at 9pm, it was advantageous to get as near to the front of the queue of 8000 riders as possible. I'd heard that it could take 45 minutes to get to the start line if you were at the back of the queue! This all meant an early start to the day, waking…

26th April 2019 After many, many months of training, our first day of riding in Mallorca had arrived. What a day to start with, a gentle ride out to the lighthouse at Cap de Formentor! The ride served a couple of purposes: Test out the bike after reassembling it following transport in a bike box.Give the legs a good primer before the big event the following day. We set off, the weather was so much warmer than we had left behind in the UK. It was great to be in summer kit and see the sunshine. We were very lucky…

Signing Up My first blog post is triggered by the recent 2 year anniversary of attempting to ride Mallorca 312 in April 2019, It all started several months before in September 2018 when my self and 7 other friends signed up for this amazing event! There was a certain amount of nervousness as I completed the online application to ride, this was to be the longest and hilliest ride I had ever undertaken… So, signup all completed, I now had a very real fear that would drive my training over the next six months until the event! A Plan For…