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Last month my bike and I performed an acrobatic somersault,
with my bouncing off the top of
my helmet for a dismount. The
score was a broken neck and a
prize of three months in a brace.
Thinking about what it’s going
to be like getting back on the
bike—and whether I’ll return to
cycling at all—I sense that it’ll be
one thing to be dodging potholes, and quite another to be
doing so with a clear memory of
how it felt to smack into one.
While the odds of a swan dive
remain the same—if not reduced,
since I will be even more vigilant
going forward—risk analysis only
gets you so far. So it remains to be
seen which will win out, science or
faith—a rational fear of cycling’s
dangers, or an unfounded belief in
my ability to avoid them.
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the
race
had
an interesting start with a
rolling through
the small New York town Those who pushed the limits in moving
of Cambridge closely folforward soon found themselves going
lowed by the American
national anthem. There’s backwards after either running off the
always a first for some- road or smacking into big potholes.
thing. You don’t see that in
Australia!
a small move established
The start was one of the
amongst the dust and I too soon
most conservative starts I have exfound myself up the road. As all
perienced. Rolling along the nice
racers will know this is the best sithot-mix road everyone was conuation on these treacherous roads.
tent to wait to the first section of
If you’re up the road your are at
dirt 15km into the race before anyleast avoiding the carnage behind
one laid the smack down. The enyou and more importantly you can
try onto the unsealed roads was via
pick the best lines and “get your
an enclosed bridge with an immeeye in” (in cricket terms).
diate right hander onto the dirt and
I got brought back by the
everyone knew they had to be up
bunch and each dirt section was
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at the front. This section
was crazy as the riders
all charged at it with
full steam. All anyone
could do was simply
focus on the darkness
and try to see 1 meter
of road in front of you
along with bottles flying,
dust everywhere, and the crack of
carbon wheels hitting pot holes.
approached and ridden with
max speed with everyone constantly jostling for position. I
found it best to lay off the wheel
in front of me a bit so I could
see more of the upcoming road.
Those who pushed the limits
in moving forward soon found
themselves going backwards after either running off the road or
smacking into big potholes.
110km into the race we
approached a massive unsealed
section of a climb with loose
dirt. I was having the time of my
life with dust and stones flicking everywhere while fighting
for position where I made my
way over the top of the climb in
a select group. A slight lull left
me the opportunity to attack and
bridge across to a small break
up the road. Once across to the
break the complacency of the
group quickly led to my impatience and I had to attack. One
other rider joined me which led
to “the chase” of the solo Kelly
Benefits rider (Jesse Anthony)
two minutes up the road. The
last part of the race consisted
a insane dirt roads. One minute you are flying down a dirt
hill at max speed to suddenly
come across large junks of sand
that flicked the bike all over the
place.
eight
kilometers
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the
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working for a teammate to
finish the mind changed
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myself still with 30sec to chase
the realization that we weren’t
going to get caught. I soon shiftdown over the last 6km and he
ed to the mentality the possibilwasn’t slowing down. I was ality of actually winning this race!
most at the point where I started
A climb approach and I
knew I had to get rid of I was almost at the point where I
my partner as I didn’t started thinking I should concede
even want to consider
taking him to the line. and simply ride for second place.
I attacked and luckily dropped
thinking I should concede and
simply ride for second place. But
him and the chase to the lead
man was on. Jesse Anthony
as the old saying goes, “dangle
was riding bloody amazing as
the carrot in front of the rabbit
he simply had been holding the
and it will chase” held true. I
started to slowly bring him back
time gap so well that I found
but still thought that for kilometers from the finish that I am not
going to catch him, screaming at
myself for only have a 12T cassette rather than an 11T.
two kilometers from the fin-
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to him to attack on the other side of the road
on a uphill drag. Only then did I
realize I had the win in my hands.
Riding into the home straight
with 300m to go and realizing I
had won the race was pretty awesome to experience.
ish i timed my run
aussie wins!
after the race the reality
of this win didn’t really sink
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in.
My two Aussie teammates
seemed to be more excited
than I was and it was a
good laugh to be pre- It was an insanely intense race ridsented wit a 1L bottle of den in the same chaotic dramachocolate milk instead
of a bottle of champa’s, filled fashion as the Paris Roubaix.
seeing as I’m lactose intolerrace ridden in the same chaant. Shaun and Sam can go
otic drama-filled fashion as the
Paris Roubaix. Roll on, Tour of
halfies!!!!
Three days later and I’m
Battenkill 2012.
back into the reality of trainBig thanks to all our team
ing in the cold spring condisponsors and most importantly
tions of Quebec. My reflecting
the Louis Garneau brand – seriously the most amazing kit
to ride and the knicks are by
far the most comfortable pair I
have ever worn—get onto it!!!
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thoughts on this is it’s a race
I will remember forever—not
only for the win but the fact
that it was an insanely intense
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teacher but this year decided to have some
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Team (officially called Garneau-Club
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the life cycle
of a bicycle:
energy in motion
becomes
Through winter-time we
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And through the spring
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And when abounding hedges ring
Declare that winter’s best of all;
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Because the spring-time has
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Nor know that what disturbs
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Is but its longing for the tomb.
—William Butler Yeats,
The Wheel
PHOTO: AMANDA RICHARDS
poetry at rest
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and the
passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?
I am the grass.
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—Carl Sandburg,
from Grass
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poetry at rest
And dying-to let go, no longer feel
the solid ground we stand on every dayis like anxious letting himself fall
into waters, which receive him gently
—T. S. Eliot,
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The little waves, with their soft, white hands
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveler to the shore.
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
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poetry at rest
Some say the world will end in fire;
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
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I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice. —Robert Frost,
Fire and Ice
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poetry at rest
Rome has fallen, ye see it lying
Heaped in undistinguished ruin:
Nature is alone undying.
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—Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Rome and Nature
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poetry at rest
Drowning is not so pitiful
As the attempt to rise
Three times, ‘tis said, a sinking man
Comes up to face the skies,
And then declines forever
To that abhorred abode,
Where hope and he part company.
—Emily Dickinson,
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poetry at rest
Trench stinks of shallow buried dead
Where Tom stands at the periscope,
Tired out. After nine months he’s shed
All fear, all faith, all hate, all hope.
—Robert Graves,
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Nobody heard him, the dead man,
Poor chap, he always loved larking
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
I was much further out
It must have been too cold for him
I was much too far out all my life
But still he lay moaning:
than you thought
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And not waving but drowning.
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And now he’s dead
his heart gave way,
They said.
(Still the dead one lay moaning)
And not waving but drowning.
—Stevie Smith, Not Waving But Drowning
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unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning
—William Carlos Williams,
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poetry at rest
This is the garden. Time shall surely reap
and on Death’s blade lie many a flower curled,
in other lands where other songs be sung;
yet stand They here enraptured, as among
the slow deep trees perpetual of sleep
some silver-fingered fountain steals the world.
—e.e. cummings,
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Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
Can’t help but wonder what’s happening to my companions
Are they lost or are they found,
have they counted the cost it’ll take to bring down
All their earthly principles they’re gonna have to abandon?
There’s slow, slow train coming up around the bend.
—Bob Dylan,
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The
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Commute
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Getting there is only
half the fun—getting
there first is the other.
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I got home from work. “Hey dear,”
said my wife, “how was your day?”
“Excellent,” I replied, “I overtook three
people on the climb up the hill, and
one guy made a big effort to
overtake me, couldn’t keep up the
pace, and cracked. It was really great.”
Really. That was the one thing I
was thinking about. Because,
although many people will deny it,
there is a subtle race going on.
It’s often referred to as “commuter
racing” or the “great race”, but it’s
seldom talked about openly (the
first rule of commuter racing is, of
course, that you don’t talk about
commuter racing). And one of the
first things you’ll find out when you
start bike commuting is, everyone
does it but few people admit it.
Think about it.
When you see someone 100m
further up the climb you’re on, do
you think “Ahah, a comrade, a
confrere, a brother cyclist toiling up
the same ascent as myself –
perhaps I could catch up and
exchange some knowing banter
about the difficulty of the
gradient?” Do you like heck. You
think “His arse is mine”, and you put
the hammer down to try and catch
them. And if you do, you don’t
slacken off and have a chat in the
Spirit of Cycling Fellowship – you
breezily say “Hello!” as you go past
(in brief acknowledgement of the S
of CF), while going as fast as you
can without making it obvious that
you’re trying. And if you do slacken
off and ride next to someone to
have a friendly chat, it’s usually to
demonstrate that you’re able to talk
normally while the other guy is
clearly riding at the point where
they can’t get out more than three
words without gasping.
But, you know, it’s not
a race. Of course it’s not a race. If it
was a race, you’d have numbers on.
And you’d have all started at the
same time. As is, you often see
people who’ve just started their 5k
saunter back home pitting
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themselves against someone who’s
coming up to the end of their 20k of
rolling hills. You’d also be on roughly
similar bikes; as is, road bikes compete
with mountain bikes with sit-up-andbeg town bikes. The blatant inequality
of equipment is all part of the fun. Have
you ever seen the face of someone on
a town bike when they pass a roadie in
full team replica kit? You can see the
grin from space. I know a number of
singlespeed mountain bikers who
dedicate their commuting lives to
overtaking riders on geared bikes. You,
the guy with the beard riding a vintage
70s touring bike you’ve owned from
new – you’re telling me that you don’t
get a buzz from passing a
20-something on $4k of carbon fibre?
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If it was a race, there’d also be
some agreement about such
things as start and finish lines. You
come up behind someone: maybe
they’re riding all the way to the top
of the mountain, maybe they’re
turning off halfway. Maybe you
can afford to put out a hell of an
effort to stay ahead of them until
the turnoff to Johnsonville, after
which you can grovel slowly up the
rest of the hill secure in the
knowledge that you held the
contender off. Maybe, maybe,
maybe. Do you feel lucky?
If it were a race,
you’d have an agreed list of
participants. In practice, you just try
and keep up with/overtake people
as you see them. As you pass one
rider, you spot the next one ahead
and start chasing them.
Over time, you get to recognize
other people on your commute. I
know three riders who do roughly the
same route I do at about the same
time who are stupidly, stupidly faster
than me. Really. They pass me like I’m
standing still. I’ll be rolling at 30kph
and they’ll blow past at 40. But I don’t
need to think “Damn, I’ve lost that
one” – they’re clearly so far out of my
league that there’s no pressure to feel
as though we’re competing.
And of course, if it
were a race there’d be winners
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and losers. As is, if you overtake
someone you can glory in your
victory; if you get overtaken, you
can just think “Ouch, it’s not a race”
and deliberately slow up a bit to
show that you’re more concerned
with the bike as a means of
transportation rather than some
silly macho competitive thing. The
best of both worlds.
This is not, by the way, to imply
that all commuter cyclists are
cut-throat macho types who like
nothing better than grinding
others into the dirt.
Of course there is a spirit of
fellowship: any time I puncture on
my ride home, I can guarantee that
at least half the riders going past
will slow down to call out “You OK
there mate?” in case I don’t have a
patch kit on me. It’s just that there’s
a certain competitive instinct that
comes out of the mildestmannered person.
So, if it’s not a race,
why do we do it? Because it is a
race. It’s a race inside my head.
And I’m winning.
Five tips for
commuter racing:
1. Obvious effort is frowned
upon. Unless you can make it
look like absolute eyeballs-out
full speed head is your normal
commute pace, trying too hard
makes it look like you’re, well, trying too hard. You may well be, of
course, but nonchalance is important – when you pass someone,
you’ve got to look as if there’s no
effort involved. Bonus points for
putting on a spurt behind someone and then passing while audibly freewheeling.
2. Drafting is fine. C’mon, it
makes it feel more like a real
race. But don’t just wheelsuck. If
you are drafting, take your turn.
Especially don’t wheelsuck for
ages and then do a big sprint
around to pass your imaginary
finish line. OK, the pros do it,
but it’s annoying.
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Pay attention to traffic
and the road. It’s pretty easy to
get so involved in the prospect of
overtaking the dude on the Bianchi that you miss the BMW about
to turn across your path. Don’t
forget that you’re on the road,
and that there are drivers, kids, little old ladies and red lights
around. And for the love of god,
obey the road rules. Yeah, you can
gain a few seconds on someone
by blasting through a red light,
but it makes you look like a twerp
and further tarnishes cyclists’ reputation. Obey the rules and treat
red lights as a chance to practice
your track sprint starts.
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After a while, you get to know
your route really well. Get used to
stuff like timing the lights. The
rider who sprints off as the light
goes green but has to wait thirty
seconds at the next light down
the road doesn’t look as smooth
as the rider who knows that if you
stick to 20kph, you hit the next
light just as it turns and you don’t
have to get a foot down. Style
points count for stuff like this.
5. Don’t bring it unless you
can take it. Passing someone is
only half the job – now you’ve got
to stay ahead. If you’re just hanging on to someone’s wheel with a
severe effort, you probably don’t
want to put yourself into the red
and pass them. Overtaking someone and then falling off the pace
just makes you look silly. You can
try to pretend that you’ve just
taken a short turn pulling and are
now dropping back to draft again,
but you’re not fooling anyone.
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Sometimes we’ll get every type of
weather in one day. New Mexico weather is
bizarre and random and you never know what to expect.
Thank god the weather held up this past Sunday for the
(unofficial) Pump Track World Champs in Albuquerque
at Gerhardt Ackerman’s back yard. Weeks and weeks of
hard digging paid off with one of the sickest back yards,
with endless lines and transfers.
Gerhardt teamed up with Bikeworks Albuquerque and
Commencal and they threw down some sweet prizes for the
race. The fastest bmx or cruiser received a Commencal Max
Max 24 inch bike and the fastest mountain bike received a
Chris King Headset and Chris King Bottom Bracket.
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Even though there was some
sweet prizes up for grabs, everyone
showed up to hang out, ride with their friends and
enjoy the dogs and burgers cooking on the grill.
After some heated racing, a session on the track went
down and the track came alive with riders coming up
with creative lines and transfers. After 6 or so hours of
riding it was time to call it quits. The sun was setting and
it was time to pack up the cars and go home.
riders collective
North of
Helsinki is
a group of
scientists
dedicated to the
testing
of tires
and tubes.
They
are
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industrial complex in
Nastola, Finland is the
nondescript gray building that’s the base of
independent third-party tire
testers Wheel Energy.
Using a battery of purposebuilt machines, founders Petri
Hankiola, Veijo Pulkkanen and
Marko Savolainen are
addressing some of
the common questions
surrounding bicycle
tires. They’re coming
up with some interesting answers that no
longer have to rely on
word of mouth, tradition or intuition for
their veracity. Take these conclusions for example:
Punctureresistant belts work
but they’re not created
equal: Nylon, aramid and
other belts placed under the
tread do help ward off flats
but there are benefits
and trade-offs to the various materials. Tougher
ones like aramid are durable and highly cut- and
puncture-resistant but their
stiff nature sucks up a lot of
energy, contributing to rolling
resistance. More flexible ones like
nylon aren’t as bulletproof but of-
fer a better compromise if you still
want to retain good performance.
Wider tires roll faster
than narrower ones: Riders have argued for years that
wheelmen
riders collective
Wheel Energy
claims that
25mm tires have
five percent
lower rolling
resistance
than more common
23mm ones.
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narrower
tires –
especially
on the
road –
roll faster
and are
more efficient than
wider
ones
when in fact, the opposite is
true. According to Wheel Energy,
the key to reducing rolling resistance is minimizing the energy
lost to casing deformation, not
minimizing how much tread is
in contact with the ground. All
other factors being equal, wider
casings exhibit less ‘bulge’ as a
percentage of their cross-section
and also have a shorter section
of deflected sidewall.
How big a difference are we
talking about here? For an equivalent make and model of tire,
Wheel Energy claims the 25mmwide size will have five percent
lower rolling resistance on aver-
age – the supposed
average limit of human detection – than
the more common
23mm one. However,
23mm and narrower
tires do still have the
advantage when it
comes to aerodynamics, and to a lesser extent weight. If you’re
selecting a tire for drag strip time
trials, narrow is the way to go,
but if you want a better handling
tire for road racing and crits, go
wider – particularly for rough
road surfaces.
Inner tubes matter:
Think there’s no point in that expensive lightweight tube? Think
again if you’re trying to go faster.
According to Wheel Energy’s
data, latex tubes roll 10 percent
faster than common 0.6mm-thick
butyl tubes, though today’s ultrathin butyl models come admirably close.
Larger diameter wheels roll
faster than smaller ones: Yep, it’s
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‘A to B’ magazine started life as ‘The Folder’, the newsletter of
the Folding Society in August 1993, specializing in news and
reviews of folding and separable bikes.
In August 1997, the magazine struck out on its own with a
new title ‘A to B’ and a new mission—to explore new ways of
travelling from point A to point B.
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now been confirmed in the
lab—29er mountain bikes
roll faster than 26ers. Wheel
Energy say the effect here is
similar to that of tire width,
in that largerdiameter tires
exhibit less
casing deflection and thus
less energy
loss. In the
case of 29ers,
there’s the additional factor
of the 29in
wheels’ lower
angle of attack for anything other than
a perfectly smooth ground
surface.
The longer effective lever
requires less energy to overcome whatever tire bulge
exists at the contact patch
so more forward momentum
is maintained. In addition,
Wheel Energy’s analyses of
tire contact patch have con-
firmed that 29in tires don’t
have a bigger footprint than
otherwise identical 26in
ones. While the total area is
the same, the shape of the
patch is longer and narrower
on 29ers, though.
Tread pattern matters, even on the
road: The importance of
tread pattern is no surprise
to the off-road world but
common wisdom says it’s
a non-factor on the road,
where slick treads are assumed to deliver the great-
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est surface contact with the
ground and thus, the best
grip. However,
asphalt is far
from a perfect—
or even consistent—material.
Certain tread
designs can provide a measureable mechanical
adhesion to the
ground.
Higher thread
counts aren’t always better: According
to Wheel Energy, higher
thread count casings are
generally lighter and suppler than tires with lower
thread counts since they
absorb less rubber during
the vulcanization process
(non-vulcanized tires such
as most high-end tubulars
exhibit their own characteristics). However, they also
suffer from decreased puncture resistance since the
individual cords are thinner
and easier to cut.
Wheel
Energy
claim
mediumcount
casings
(around
60tpi)
may offer
the best
all-round performance for
everyday use. As compared
to 120tpi casings, they can
actually roll faster and are
much more resistant to cuts
while often carrying just
a slight weight penalty. If
cut resistance is highest on
your list of priorities, 30tpi
tires are apparently the way
to go but you can also expect them to be heavy and
slow rolling.
BikeRadar.com keeps you up to
date with top reviews of the
latest bikes and gear for cyclists.
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rolling stones
n 2008,
Garry Brennen
weighed 546 lbs.
when he decided
he needed to lose
weight for his gastric
by-pass. Now, 26 stone (364 lbs.)
riders collective
lighter, he’s ready to tell his story:
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n January 2008 I weighed in at a
mind- (and waist-) busting 39 stone
and 13 pounds. A few months
before my GP had suggested to
me that I consider a gastric by-pass.
I was shocked – I thought to
myself “but they are for really
fat people.”
I was at his surgery for many
health-related issues and realising
my dire situation, he thought he
would make the suggestion to help
me. I left and thought nothing of his
words. It was around three days later
that, while struggling to walk from
my living room to my kitchen that I
decided “Actually I am really fat”
and with that, my ‘light-bulb
moment’, my life would never be
the same again.
I
was approved for the surgery in
April, however as I had a Holiday
booked at the end of September
they told me that it would not be
done until at least October 2008, I
decided that I needed to change
and attempt to get a little stronger
for the operation. I purchased a
Giant Yukon 08 MTB, I
decided that I wanted
to cycle to work, it was
6.5 miles away from
where I live, and there is
also a nasty hill that I
had to ride on both
journeys, there was no
way I would be able to
do that, it was
something I was going
to have to build up to.
From January to April
I had lost around
four-and-a-half stone and while I
was impressed with my efforts it did
mean that I was going to attempt
to cycle weighing-in at over 34
stone. It was June 2008, 6pm; I had
finished work, the sun was shining,
my time was now, I got my bike and
headed outside. I looked and felt
like a total idiot, but nothing was
going to stop me.
I
had been watching NBC’s The
Biggest Loser, seeing people
weighing up to 29 stone doing
punishing exercise. I was inspired
by Mark Kruger and Roger Schultz
who were both finalists, and
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who’d shown me in each episode how you not only
need to change physically but also mentally. The
reality, however, was that both Mark and Roger were
200 pounds lighter than me – shouldn’t it have been
me that was on the show? The
Biggest Loser is something I will
always credit for helping save my
life. If I hadn’t seen with my own
eyes what could be done, then
I’m not sure I would have even
attempted it.
was
soaking in
sweat...but I
had cycled
one mile.”
I
cycled the half-mile to my local
train station. I was wheezing, my
arms hurt holding up my weight,
my legs hurt pushing my weight
along. I was soaking in sweat, like
someone who had just run over
30 miles – but I had done it! I had
made it to the half-way point. I
took in an energy gel, about
500ml of water and had a ten-minute sit-down. I was
then ready to set off again and get home. Boy was it
hard. By the time I was home I thought to myself “I
can’t do this” – I couldn’t breath, I was coughing and
wheezing, tired and sore but I had cycled one mile.
This was a REAL wake-up call for me; I had done
well in losing over four stone but the reality that it
was just a fraction of what I needed to do to survive
this. With that I had a much needed half-hour sleep
on the sofa.
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Over the coming days I forced myself to up my
mileage and I was at the stage after a week that I
could cycle to the train station, and then cycle from
the train station near work.
I
was doing two-and-a-half miles a day and
starting to gain confidence. Within six weeks I
was getting on and off the train two stops before
I needed to, and then on
August Bank Holiday 2008 I
decided I was going to cycle to
work, the whole way. It was a
Bank Holiday, I didn’t need to,
but I was ready….
I made it the 6.5 miles in 43
minutes, I felt fresh, strong and
ready to do more, I decided to
take the train home and save
myself for the “Real” Commute
the next day.
Over the next 3 weeks I
cycled to work every day, but
took the train home, the
homeward leg was harder as it’s
a gradual uphill with a kicker of
a hill at the very end.
After my holiday I received
the news I was expecting and
yet dreading at the same time.
I no longer qualified for the by-pass, due to losing
so much weight. I was thrilled, yet at the same time
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was no
longer
qualified
for the
by-pass, due
to losing so
much weight”
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scared. I had lost eight stone from
April to October – I had shown that
I COULD do it. The next day was a
freezing cold and wet morning, one
I am never going to forget. I
thought to myself “I am on my own
now, it’s all me”. Then from nowhere
a good friend drove past. It was
Christy, the one was pushed
me to cycle in the first place. He
waved and encouraged me on,
and with that, the rain, the wind
and the freezing temperature no
longer mattered.
Two weeks later and I was cycling
to and from work, doing 13 miles
each day. Before long it was January
again, and I decided to think about
doing the Manchester to Blackpool
ride. My target was 2010, but I had
already come so far – and while I
was training some new starters at
work one of them said “Gaz, you
can do it mate, I’ll do it with you”
– and with that the seed was
planted. I started increasing my
mileage, getting to as much as 17
miles per day, and before I knew it,
it was July. I was still weighing-in at
over 25 stone. I wasn’t ready for this,
but I was going to do it anyway.
Before the Blackpool ride I made
a conscious effort to make my story
public. I was interviewed by
Granada Reports, BBC Radio, BBC
Online and a host of local papers.
You might ask why someone who
was still classed as morbidly obese
would want to
seek such publicity.
Well, in my mind
it was simple, to
pile the pressure
on me.
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So I started to
write my blog, went
public and signed
up to a few cycling
forums, all providing
me with the
motivation, drive
and support I would
need in the coming
months.
The night before
the ride I couldn’t
sleep – not to put
too fine a point on
it, I was on the toilet
most of the night.
When I got on the
start line I was
already knackered
and my tummy would still not settle
down. In the blink of an eye we
were off – two colleagues and I
were rolling.
had
lost eight
stone from
April to
October—I
had shown I
could do it.”
had been cycling
for around a year,
yet I was still only
around a quarter
of the way though
my journey. I had
lost more weight
than an average
woman weighs,
cycled more miles
than 80% of the
cyclists in my
building at work and yet, I was still
fatter than the majority of people
who realise they need to lose
weight. In fact, I was 12 months
away from where most people
START – shocking!
So I knew I needed to do
something to keep me focused. The
first year had been enjoyable, but I
was nearing the point where cycling
wasn’t as hard, but wasn’t easy, and I
new I was in for a rough ride.
I
had to hold myself back from
sprinting, I was so full of adrenalin.
The first 15 miles flew by – our
pace was good, and while not
being record-setting, we were all in
our stride and them boom –
disaster. My colleague and I
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people who
realize they
need to lose
weight”
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had a ‘coming together’; I held it
together, he didn’t. The ensuing wait
for medical help and then a stop for
paramedics 10 miles later put us all off
our stride. I struggled to get going
again after being stopped for around
90 minutes in total.
I
n the end we made it to Blackpool.
We were around four to five miles
away and my cycle computer showed
four hours and 50 minutes. I got a
second wind and cycled harder than
ever before – there was a nasty
head-wind but I was going to push as
hard as I could to get there in under
five hours. The miles flew by, and
before long we were on the sea front.
Around half-a-mile from the finish
line, I said to Paul
“Sorry mate, the
adrenalin has
kicked in, I’m
going to sprint
this,” and with that
I watched my
speed go from 14
mph to 18 mph, to
22 mph. Paul was
still with me at this
point, I then
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This will be the third year I
have done this ride. I ride in
memory and honour of some
amazing people that touched my
life who are no longer with us,
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but I also ride for the future, I
have saved my future by losing
26 stone but so many out there,
who are touched by cancer
might not be as lucky as I am, for
that reason, to give something
back to those less fortunate than
I am, I ride to help beat cancer
once and for all.
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kicked into the big ring and
stood up – I gave it hell, crossing
the line, still sprinting at 29 mph.
I was going a little too fast – the
announcer told me to slow
down, and my supporters said
that they weren’t able to get any
pictures due to my speed. What
a result! I had finished, a year
early, managed a sprint AND
been told off for going too fast!
ride in
memory and
honour of
some amazing
people.”
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