Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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A numerical increase isn't a 'rate', 100,000 is a 1.6% increase, however UK population increased by 1% over the same period, ergo the 'rate' of increase in real terms is circa 0.6%, and due to the population increase that means the rate of cycling for transport has gone down, so really there is no increase at all is there!
CS1 is garbage, ridiculously narrow and barriers down the centre, and people celebrate this load of poop, the mind boggles as to how people think that that is any way shape or form adequate never mind inviting to get more people cycling ... oh wait, the stats above prove it doesn't!
Steak chips and an egg, at the halfway point of a ride. That's got potatoes in it, I've been doing it for years. It works, job's a good'un.
Funny old thing eh? Carbs in whatever package (be it a foil wrapper or a potato skin) are found to be, well, carbs!
PP
Hardly a ground breaking discovery. Par boiled potatoes dusted in parmesan was a regular inclusion in the Pro peloton musette. It might still be for some of the Italian teams.
However a big knobbly King Edward stored down ones cycle shorts is going to draw the wrong sort of attention.
First it was Christmas pudding, now it’s potatoes. If they tell me that beer is as good as energy drinks, please don’t wake me, I must be dreaming!
Nothing wrong with a bit of fat, protein and some salt if your cycling that far. Salt is a major part of rehydration drinks.
I now see a market for cheesey mash in packets. I do wonder now what it would taste like cold, as I imagin it would be more palitable for me than gels (I hate them)
Sausage, mash and a pint sounds like the perfect recovery meal to me. a good dose of carbs, protein, salt and liquid. Make it a pint of stout and its even better.
It tastes great - I'm always getting in trouble with Mrs Srchar for having a couple of quick spoons of cheesy mash from the top of a cold shepherd's pie intended to be reheated and eaten for dinner tomorrow...
But isn't it also about the amount of butter and salt that you need to get a pureed potato to taste wonderful. Lots of freshly ground pepper too, but that might be sort of healthy.
If AsEasyAsRidingaBike reads this, please blog more, I am very much a fan of well written peices, and I do not tweet.
And cake is the breakfast of champions.
Chips for breakfast!! Yes there is a god!!
dirty reiver 2018 and 2019, feed stop 3 provided by pannier, boiled new potatoes, tossed in olive oil and covered in cheese - food of champions!
I heard something else was the food, or at least just the first meal of the day, for champions...
but maybe that's just motorsport.
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