No need to ask for more at The Workhouse

No need to ask for more at The Workhouse

by | Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Sunday the 10th’s ride took us to the Workhouse in Brixworth.  But this workhouse wasn’t the one in which Oliver asked for more gruel.  Indeed, the enormous size and range of cakes in Brixworth’s Workhouse is enough to make anyone full up. As usual, riders gather at...
The Hill Climb – or 6 minutes of hell

The Hill Climb – or 6 minutes of hell

by | Monday, October 4, 2021

I spent the summer climbing more the equivalent of more than times the height of Everest riding the Tour de France one week ahead of the pros.  We took on Mont Ventoux twice in the same day (two vertical miles), with another mile of climbing over the 85 miles until we...