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)

Free-to-use Strava Tools

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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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Almost a blizzard at Blickling parkrun!

Conditions were tough for volunteers and runners for run #537 on the Blickling Estate in Norfolk. With a brisk NW wind blowing, and the air temperature around -2, the snow started to pick up as the run started, and got quite heavy by 9:30 ... (more)

Iceni Old Buckenham Cross (inc Regional Champs)

For once the weather was sunny and dry in the afternoon - but only after a couple of very heavy rain showers in the morning, making conditions terrible for the youth and making the course extremely muddy for all the remaining races. Results ... (more)

VC Revolution Cross

Bumpy, firm grass made it tough going in the morning rides. For the last two races the rain was lightly falling and the ground started to soften up - and grass started getting caught up on the bikes. The grip remained though, and racing ... (more)

Welwyn Cross

After a dry morning's racing, drizzle moved in and made things a bit slippery and messy for later racers. It was still quite mild at least, and the grassy course didn't lose much grip. Full results on the Eastern Cross website. Event ... (more)

Norfolk springtime audax

Iceni Velo are hosting a pair of audax rides in March, using Hellesdon in north Norwich as the HQ. Both options head north; the 50km option reaches Blickling and Itteringham, and the 100km option goes right up to Wells-next-the-Sea. For ... (more)

West Suffolk Cross

West Suffolk Wheelers hosted a fantastic event at the West Stow Country Park, on an interesting course with a lot of surface variation on mud, grass, sand and tarmac - some slow, some fast. Full results on the Eastern Cross website ... (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!