James Golding – An Inspirational Man

James Golding is an inspiration even if he doesn’t like to hear it. Here is his story. James has previously cycled across America, completing 3,473 miles in 24 days. His next challenge is to attempt to break the 7-day cycling world record of 1546.8 miles to raise funds for charity and become the first official person to break this record since 1940. He will head to Australia to do so. Golding, 32, has amazed both the cycling community and medical... Read More

Signed Sean Conway Book Competition

Here is your chance to win a copy of the brilliant new new book from Sean Conway “World Cycling Stripped Bare”. Photographer Sean Conway woke up one day, realising he was sick of the rat race, wanted to do something that would shape the rest of his life. With virtually no cycling experience, Sean decided that he would try and become the fastest person to cycle around the world. Six months before he departed he had no bike, no funding... Read More

Mark Colbourne Breaks World Record

New World Record – Mark Colbourne ( GBR ) – Men’s C1 3km Individual Pursuit Qualifying © Christina Kelkel Mark Colbourne Breaks World Record and Qualifies for C1 Individual Pursuit Final! Mark Colbourne has broken the C1 3k Individual Pursuit world record with a blistering time of 3.53.970 and will battle for gold with Zhang Yu Li of China in the final this evening! Mark had a good clean start to the race and remained composed as... Read More

Para-Cycling World Championships – Day 2

Mark Colbourne - UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships Los Angeles, USA - ©Copyright Christina Kelkel Mark Colbourne Today saw Mark racing in the 1km Time Trial, after he managed to take his first ever Para-Cycling World Championship Gold in his first International track competition! As a track debutant, Mark had to go off as one of the first riders with 10 more riders to come after his heat. Motivated by yesterday’s success, Mark rode a very... Read More

Update From Cali World Cup

  Cali Track World Cup 2011   Update From Cali World Cup The highlights of yesterday are quite interesting; in the men’s team sprint qualifying the German trio of Rene Enders, Maximilian Levy and Stefan Nimke set a new World Record in an impressive ride (42.914), the women’s team sprint was won also by Germany with Kristina Vogel and Miriam Welte. Results:
 1 Germany 
 Rene Enders
 Maximilian Levy 
 Stefan Nimke 2 Team Erdgas... Read More

500 Days To Go!

500 Days to go! by Jody Cundy   Can’t believe it, this coming Sunday when thousands of people will be running the London marathon, another milestone on the run in to the Paralympics rolls around, 500 days to go! All of a sudden the Paralympics in London are becoming very real, and I couldn’t be more excited. With the world track championships all done and dusted for another year, it’s time to switch focus to the road, but not before hitting... Read More

World Championships Review, Montichiari, Italy 2011

World Championships Review (Montichiari, Italy 2011) by Jody Cundy   Wow what can I say, 3 days of competition, 3 medals, 2 World Records and 1 National Record. Going into Italy the main concerns I had were: 1. Could I pull out the pursuit ride my training has been geared to? 2. Would all the pursuit/endurance training I’ve done effect my top end speed? 3. Would 3 events back to back be a step too far? Day 1 (4km Pursuit) Well question 1 was... Read More

Getting All Artistic

Getting All Artistic by Jody Cundy MBE   Well here I am on the eve of the World Championships here in Montichiari, I’ve had 3 sessions on the track since arriving here, and each one of them has been more and more encouraging. The track feels fast, and my legs feels good, I just hope that feeling lasts for the next 3 days as I have a lot of racing to do between now and Sunday evening. First up is the pursuit, the big unknown for me, sure I’ve... Read More

A Topsy Turvy Year

A Topsy Turvy Year by Jody Cundy MBE   As 2010 comes to an end, it’s time to look back on what has been a bit of a strange year. Starting in January with a “warm weather camp” on Majorca which ended up in snow, it was a sign of a topsy turvy year I was going to have. By the time March came around, our World Championships in August had been cancelled and my training goals where turned on their head. In Easter my first proper race of the... Read More

The Cycle Show & Europa Cup

The Cycle Show & Europa Cup by Jody Cundy MBE   With Nationals all done it was on to The Cycle Show at London’s Earls court, where I was busy signing autographs on the British Cycling stand, I can’t remember ever signing so many autograph cards! The Cycle Show was also a great opportunity to meet potential sponsors and suppliers in the run up to London 2012, it was also a great place to generate feedback and interest for the Paracycling... Read More

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