Cycling for Good Causes

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Cycling Performance Programme

Performance Programme My plan and diary for keeping fit in 2025 will continue to be lower-key, with lots of local riding and the odd longer ride. 2025 targets Do a pre-ride of London-Edinburgh-London. Raise my metric Eddington Number ... (more)

Audax: long-distance cycling

Audax: the home of long-distance cycling If you love recreational cycling, and enjoy the prospect of an all-day ride, then the audax may be just what you need. Audax technically means "daring" or "courage", but you usually won't need either ... (more)

Preparing for an Air-source Heat Pump

This is a guide to help you decide on whether an ASHP (air-source heat pump) is right for your home. Are you sitting on the fence about whether to replace your ageing fossil fuel boiler with an all-electric solution? You can read a broad ... (more)

Free-to-use Strava Tools

Tools for the Strava Athlete (more)

Crivit products

The Crivit® product range If you're looking for outdoors clothing or accessories, you could do worse than to browse the Crivit® range. Crivit® is a brand of German supermarket Lidl's, so it's most convenient for UK customers to head down ... (more)

Air-Source Heat Pumps

Air-source Heat Pumps: A home-owner's experience I deliberated for a long while about replacing my aging (but reliable) oil boiler with an air-source heat pump (ASHP). Here you can read about my options, my decision, and how it panned out ... (more)

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Riding the Rebellion Way

Early one Saturday morning in May 2024 I headed off from my North Walsham home to ride the Rebellion Way, a 373km (232 miles) clockwise tour of Norfolk on, let's say, less traveled lanes and tracks. The official route starts and ends at Norwich ... (more)

Neil Pears Memorial Cross

Here are some photos from the Vet 40's and Women's races. It was a very warm day with a fair headwind blowing down the start/finish straight. Results on the Eastern Cross website. event info Round 3 of the Eastern Cyclo-Cross ... (more)

Costs of Running an Air-source Heat Pump

Here are my stats for electricity usage, compared to the same period a year ago (when heating and hot water were oil-fuelled): Month Expected units Expected cost (£) Actual units Actual cost (£) Actual cost per unit ... (more)

Iceni Old Buckenham Cross

Despite Storm Bert passing through (with strong winds) the day passed without rain and the ground at the campsite stayed firm for riders in all the races. Well done to all of the amazing volunteers (Iceni Velo members, friends and family ... (more)

West Suffolk Cross

The racing was fabulous at West Stow Country Park, on a challenging but fast course with a massive sandpit. Very well done to Peter Golding and the West Suffolk Wheelers for hosting this event. Full results are on the Eastern Cross website ... (more)

Stow Scramble inc Eastern Region Championships

The course of grass and woodland dirt held up well in dry conditions throughout the morning races, but heavy rain at the end of the vet-40's race and through much of the women's race turned it into a very soft-going mud-bath. Great support ... (more)

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About the author

My name is John Swindells and I'm a keen recreational cyclist with a preference for long one-day rides. I've also previously dabbled in time trialling and cyclo-cross. See more of what I get up to on Strava!