Race Report · Gravel / Bikepacking · 2022 Basajaun Five self-supported days of gravel through the Basque Country and Navarre · July–August 2022 · with Bruno Inça Just twenty days after the Ironman in Vitoria, and out of the very same Plaza de España where I’d finished it, I set off on the Basajaun: some 500 miles (800 km) of
Race Report · Ultracycling / Bikepacking · 2022 BikingMan Portugal The comeback to racing, eight months on — three days across the Algarve and Alentejo · May 2–4, 2022 After a start to the year that was hard to digest, and still finishing off the recovery, this was my first race in eight months. Alert, and full of respect for
Race Report · Ultracycling · 2021 Race Across Germany 800 km nonstop, Aachen to Görlitz — qualifying for RAAM · September 10, 2021 Early that year I had drawn up a short list of ultra-distance races, and when the Race Around Denmark was canceled I left a query with the organizer — Dieter Göpfert — about the Race Across Germany.
Race Report · Classics / Monuments · 2019 Il Lombardia The Race of the Falling Leaves — the fifth and last Monument · October 13, 2019 The fifth and last Monument was the Giro di Lombardia — la classica delle foglie morte, run in the fall, when the trees of Lombardy strip themselves bare. I did it a week after
Race Report · Gravel / Vintage · 2019 Eroica Chianti Strade bianche in its purest form — vintage Chianti · October 6, 2019 A world of its own: vintage kit, a classic bike with downtube shifters, 127 miles (205 km) of strade bianche across Tuscany — and my magnet for mechanical bad luck in full force. 127 mi Distance 11,300
Race Report · Classics / Monuments · 2019 Liège–Bastogne–Liège The hardest of the Classics — La Doyenne, in the Ardennes · April 27, 2019 In April 2019, La Doyenne — the Old Lady, the oldest of the classics, first run in 1892. I got there a few days early and had a surprise right away in central Brussels: a temporary
As I opened the envelope, I found them repaired, as good as possible – with some new skin panels placed and sew in place of the old ones, some of which were removed. But it wasn’t simply the (free) repair and the Rapha repair service canvas bag they returned in. They came with a note from the person whom repaired them (…)
