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Now into its second year, this Skipton-based event treats participants to a lumpy route through the Pennines with some pretty spectacular views. It’s also managed to keep an intimate, small-scale feel, which is surprising given the big name (and equally big legs) it’s attached to. Speaking to some of the team running the proceedings, I…
Somewhere during my Key Stage Three or GCSE years while sat in an English Language lesson, I was taught of the persuasive powers of three as a rhetorical device. While I probably went a bit overkill and used it in every piece of creative writing set as homework at the time, thinking that it would…
If I’m reviewing something, it’s usually having covered a fair number of miles on the bike (in the case of a sportive) or the same really, but with calorific boosts every now and again (if we’re talking nutrition). In either case, it’s quite easy to go into detail and get carried away with the number of…
On Sunday 11th August 2013 at around 7.30am, I arrived to the very optimistically named Victory Park in the town of Barnoldswick on Lancashire’s eastern borders. The last few brave souls taking on the 160km ride were just setting off and there were hundreds of others milling around who were, like me, about to start…