Training for life and other adventures.

13/06/2026

Got my 1st glimpse of the mountains today 😳😳
And rolled into Bayonne for a much needed 2 night rest day at a hotel and I’m lucky enough to have a bath. It felt so bloody good🤩🤩I just wallowed in it for ages then thought I’d have a sit on the bed and whoops 2hours later 😂😂😂
So Monday I’ll likely cross the border into Spain and start heading west toward Pamplona and eventually Valencia. Velodysee ( Eurovélo 1 ) you have been a blast😊

12/06/2026

Carrying your life on your bike.
Cycling for days on end you realise you do not actually need that much stuff🙃🙃
Every thing I need is strapped to my bike to live. Tonight’s dinner was Camp Provençal à la Cooper
😂😂😂all made with one tiny gas stove and a small frying pan and a pot that doubles up as a mug and I tasted bloody good. 👍
I think when I get back I’ll have a serious de clutter and get rid of loads of s..t 🙈

11/06/2026

09/06/2026

🚴‍♂️ The Long Way Home – France Tour Update 🇫🇷

This morning started with the ferry crossing from Royan. It’s funny how quickly these little crossings become part of the adventure. Bikes loaded, a short trip across the water, then straight back into French cycle-touring mode on the other side.

Not long after landing I stopped in a small town and spotted a miniature Statue of Liberty. I ended up reading about its connection with the area and how the original Statue of Liberty left from nearby Bordeaux before making its journey to America. One of those unexpected little discoveries that make travelling by bike so rewarding.

The weather has completely transformed compared to the rain and headwinds we battled earlier in the trip. Today was mostly sunshine, forests, quiet cycle paths and the smell of pine trees. The sort of riding that reminds you exactly why you decided to do something daft like cycle across France in the first place.

By the time I rolled into Montalivet I’d covered just under 76 km. Not a huge day by some standards, but after a run of bigger days it felt about right. Tent up, kettle on, cup of tea in hand and a lovely municipal campsite for the night.

One thing this trip keeps teaching me is that happiness can be surprisingly simple. A dry tent, a hot brew, a bit of sunshine and nowhere you absolutely have to be.

The Long Way Home continues south.

🇫🇷🚴‍♂️☕⛺

26/05/2026

Not long now ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

22/05/2026

This top is coming with me on my ride from the UK to Spain.

A little salute to my Dad, Ken, and Kath.

The photo was taken at Monica’s restaurant in Spain — one of Dad’s favourite places. I wore this top on the Great North Run, and now I’ll be wearing it again for parts of this journey.

Love, memories, and pedals. 🚴

12/05/2026

This is what I have to pack in my panniers for 5 weeks in the road❤️❤️

08/05/2026

Little test spin this weekend. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

08/05/2026

Carrie and I have just completed our first ever 72-hour fast.

I’m always experimenting a bit with training, mindset, recovery, and preparation for my Spain ride adventure, and after a slightly indulgent few weeks of too much sugar, snacking, and “I’ll start Monday” thinking 😄, we decided we both needed a proper reset.

So on Monday, after a recommendation from my good friend Marc, we started a 72-hour fast together.

I’ll be honest — the first 24 hours were tough. Hunger, headaches, bad breath, mood swings and both of us getting the ump with each other at times 😂 But after that something shifted.

It became less about food and more about focus. A real mental and physical reset.

I started at 88.1kg and by Thursday morning I was down to 82-something kg. I know a lot of that is water weight and glycogen depletion, not just fat loss, but the biggest change wasn’t the scales — it was how we both felt mentally.

Lighter. Calmer. More motivated. Back in control again.

For me personally, the biggest thing it gave me was a break in the cycle of constant snacking and sugar cravings, and a reminder that the body is capable of adapting to a lot more than we think.

Now the important bit starts — eating properly again, fuelling training sensibly, and carrying this momentum into the Spain ride prep 🚴‍♂️🇪🇸

Always learning. Always experimenting. Training for life and other adventure

29/04/2026

9 years ago… my first ever Olympic triathlon in Lanzarote 🌋

I couldn’t even swim a full 50m length in the pool without stopping.

Race day… absolute chaos.
A few strokes front crawl… panic… breaststroke… repeat 😅

Pretty sure I was one of the last out of the water.
Even had a German guy telling me off for zigzagging in front of him 🤣

But I finished.

Went back the next year and knocked over 20 minutes off my time overall…

…and a few years later went on to complete a full Ironman 140.6 in Austria.

Funny how something that felt impossible at the time becomes the start of everything that follows ❤️