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“I’ll get to it when I have time.” That’s what I’ve been telling myself for months now about writing an update of how The Gravel Life (TGL) is going. Life has been unrelenting, though, as I’ve explained in an instagram post recently. Between 2 kids under 5, a new job…

It’s a big day out. You moved some things around to make space for the special loop. A once-a-month treat, the extra-long adventure to see something new. It’s been a superb ride. Great company, a nice stop for coffee and treats that was maybe a little too long, but you’ve…

I started writing a blog a month ago and got half of it done before I stalled out. Not for lack of time – I was at training camp, free of the responsibilities of home life and not chasing a toddler around the house. It took a while to pin…

Barely seven months and a lifetime ago at team camp in January 2020, we shared murmurs of disbelief that the Tour of Guangxi, scheduled for October, might be at risk if China failed to get control of some virus outbreak. Within the sphere of professional cycling, the idea that world…

It may have only been 5 days of racing, but this week felt every bit as long as the first one. As the stage count increases, so does the proportion of the stage spent suffering, and we did plenty of it in the last two days. Read more on Cyclingnews.com…

It’s been a long time since I last raced 10 consecutive days, and I’m sure I’m not alone in my relief that we get to take today easy. The last “week” at the Tour de France has been extra long, and also full of long stages. Today we have enjoyed…

The only days of a Grand Tour in which time moves faster than on rest days are the days before the race, and nowhere is that truer than at the Tour de France. It’s now the middle of the afternoon on the last day before the race, and it’s the…

As the final week of the Giro d’Italia ticked by, I tried to make a note of things I could write about in my final blog about the race. Aside from the bone-chilling descent off the Mortirolo and an exciting ‘will they/won’t they’ breakaway finale, I wasn’t left with much.…

Week two of the Giro d’Italia started off better than we could have hoped for. After enjoying our rest day, we enjoyed two more. Many followers of the race complained about the boring, pancake-flat sprint stages, but we in the peloton savoured every minute of boredom, knowing what awaited us…

The longest week in cycling is finally drawing to a close, and it has been far more eventful than we would have liked here in the Sunweb camp. The nine stages of ‘week one’ have been a true rollercoaster. Everything started well. Tom Dumoulin was off the mark on the…

“My eyelids are sticky.” “…what?” “I guess it’s from all the sunscreen and sweat, but I feel it every time I blink.” Those were the first words we’d spoken in half an hour. Twenty kilometers earlier, Tom Dumoulin and I had been at sea level. Now we were pushing past…

As the season is being planned in the winter, everything is so clean and simple. The calendar has a logical flow with building, peak, and rest periods. You notice the ‘R’s on some other races, but at that point of the year don’t give much attention to your reserve races.…