Monthly Archives: March 2009

The café raid

The organizers of professional cycling races, particularly the Tour de France, have always had some strange ideas about water. Restrictions on water consumption by the riders has been one way race organizers for Grand Tours have tried, even in recent times, to keep the races tough, as a test of the survival skills of the …

March 24, 2009 – 6:56 pm | By Guy WR | Posted in Classic Climbs | Comments (3)

The point of the journey

Some recent reading has given your author some pause on the issue of riding (and climbing) better. Firstly, if one is to believe Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers, “personal explanations of success don’t work” and that those who achieve success in their field “are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and …

March 10, 2009 – 6:44 pm | By Guy WR | Posted in Climbing Skills | Comments (2)