Cycling Climb Guide - Lancashire Lloyds Tour of Britain Ride the Route 2026
If you haven't cycled in the rural and rugged landscape of the Lancashire hills, join us for the Lancashire Lloyds Tour of Britain Ride The Route tracing stage 2 of...
Cycling Climb Guide - Lancashire Lloyds Tour of Britain Ride the Route 2026
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Training Tips: 10 Cycling Rituals to Avoid Winter IllnessTraining Tips: 10 Cycling Rituals to Avoid Winter Illness
During winter training in severe weather on dirty roads, it’s important for cyclist to armour the immune system and avoid bugs, viruses and infections. With Flu season upon us and Covid...
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Training Tips: 12 Top Tips for Turbo ComfortTraining Tips: 12 Top Tips for Turbo Comfort
Are you sitting comfortably? If you’re increasing the hours spend cycling indoors during lockdown, consider optimising your position and comfort to avoid injury, stop unnecessary discomfit and max-out your training time.
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Training Tips: Winter Off-Season Advice for Sportive TrainingTraining Tips: Winter Off-Season Advice for Sportive Training
Winter is the off-season; time to rest, relax, recover - and indulge - before we press the reboot button and ramp up winter training. However, it’s often difficult to enjoy winter without...
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Training Tips: Quick leg strength gym workout for cyclistsTraining Tips: Quick leg strength gym workout for cyclists
Our resident strength and conditioning expert Byron Spence sets us an awesome at-home working to strength your climbing legs while you're stuck inside.
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Training Tips: Cyclists Guide to CaffeineTraining Tips: Cyclists Guide to Caffeine
It wasn’t long ago caffeine appeared on the WADA banned substances list, which says something for its widely acknowledged performance enhancing capabilities. Thankfully our favourite morning brew is now legal...
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Training Tips: Are you Overtraining for your sportive?Training Tips: Are you Overtraining for your sportive?
In search of structure, and in the absence of most other pastimes, exercise has become more prevalent in our daily routine during lockdown. And with an almighty goal like a Struggle...
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Sportive hydration tipsSportive hydration tips
Stay hydrated on sportive day with our advice from Precision Hydration. Their expert sweat test helps cyclists come up with a bespoke hydration strategy for training and during a big sportive like...
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Training Tips: Functional Fitness Gym Exercises For CyclistsTraining 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...
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Training Tips: New Year’s Resolutions for CyclistsTraining Tips: New Year’s Resolutions for Cyclists
To embark on the road to sportive readiness, pick from our top new years resolutions for cyclists and harness your willpower into becoming stronger, fitter and faster in 2020. Check...
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Eleanor Haresign: How to avoid and manage pre-sportive injuryEleanor Haresign: How to avoid and manage pre-sportive injury
Professional Ironman athlete Eleanor Haresign is no stranger to the highs and lows of cycling. Following a successful rise through the Pro Ironman ranks, Eleanor nursed mystery injuries until finally...
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Turbo Training: High-intensity intervals in an altitude chamberTurbo Training: High-intensity intervals in an altitude chamber
Zwift racing? Steady three hours (Netflix and chill)? Whatever indoor training you're doing to keep safe and sane over the icy months, make your turbo training count this winter by adding in...
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Training Tips: How to Ride Hartwith Bank cycling climbTraining Tips: How to Ride Hartwith Bank cycling climb
Struggle Dales sportive takes you off Yorkshire’s beaten track and over some of the most narrow, steep and unforgiving climbs. Here we talk you through what to expect when you tackle Hartwith Bank....
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Training Tips: How to Ride Park Rash Cycling ClimbTraining Tips: How to Ride Park Rash Cycling Climb
Park Rash comes around 50 miles into Struggle Dales, one of the toughest sportives in the UK featuring 108 miles over 7 climbs including Park Rash, Greenhow Hill, Trapping Hill...
