John of Groats to Lands End.

John of Groats to Lands End.

By Sam Gardner – 18th November 2016 What an adventure it was. We did this back in 1999, it was an adventure for the end of University holidays, an idea dreamed up instead of revising a few months earlier like we should have been doing. At the time I lived in...
‘I’m a racer, I don’t do sportives’

‘I’m a racer, I don’t do sportives’

By Sam Gardner – 15th November 2016 When I entered my first bike race in 1987 there was no such thing as a sportive. I guess the closest thing that existed was the London to Brighton charity bike ride. As jumped up teenagers who thought we were going to be the...