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Training Tips: Functional Fitness Gym Exercises For Cyclists

Training Tips: Functional Fitness Gym Exercises For Cyclists

With your Struggle sportive training miles beginning to ramp up, January is the perfect time to assess your functional movement to ensure you avoid injury but more importantly become an efficient, fully functioning riders firing with full force.

Winter sportive Training Tips from the Pros

Winter sportive Training Tips from the Pros

Couple bad weather with Christmas cheer and December has all the makings of a training write-off. We catch up with Yorkshire's local professionals and performance coaches to ask what their training schedule looks like in December and how to balance turbos sessions with turkey sittings. 

Reasons to Ride one of the hardest sportives

Reasons to Ride one of the hardest sportives

Outside being one of the UK's hardest sportives, Struggle Dales combines excellent organisation with detailed riders considerations to make it one of the best sportives out there.

Struggle Dales riders aspire to achieve against this challenging parcours - then come back year on year to smash their PR. Struggle Dales is a sportive for cyclists - by cyclists - with an awesome atmosphere created not just by our friendly team but by our like-minded returning riders who we love to see on the start line year on year. Here's our non-exhaustive list...


Video: Struggle Moors Recon

Video: Struggle Moors Recon

We head into the Yorkshire Moors to carry out our pre-event check - and we thought we'd take you along with us. Check out the stunning views and listen to Struggle Events' Matt give you a run down of the climbs and how to tackle them.

Check out our Rosedale Chimney recon video or find out more and enter Struggle Moors sportive.


Training Tips: How to Stay Hydrated on a Sportive

Training Tips: How to Stay Hydrated on a Sportive

Don’t let the cramp bite on the Yorkshire climbs with our top hydration tips for Struggle sprotives.

Cyclists drinking Harrogate Spring Water on Struggle Dales Sportive in Yorkshire

1. Meet Magnesium 

Struggle’s Matt has recently been battling cramps during the latter stages of a long road races. After consulting with health food experts, Matt tried magnesium tablets once a day. 

Magnesium is not only an important electrolyte which gets lost through sweat, it also relaxes the muscles to help stop that...