Edward Pickering

Life During Wartime 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

42) B&B Hotels

Aha, that does remind me, I have a couple to add!

41) Suez

You’d think I’d have learned by now.

York marathon 3:09:23 | Strava Tough day at the office. Legs felt iffy from 8 miles, largely held it together to 18 or 19, had to dial it back from 20. But kept running, and didn't totally crack. | Strava

Me 🤝 Tom Dumoulin

Running the second half of a marathon 11 minutes slower than the first.

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This would see my wife getting deported. Fuck Reform and fuck Nigel Farage.

British Politics' Midlife Crisis Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

40) Deceuninck

39) Soudal

38) Amstel

Truth.

72km to go. Three left. Kuss, Vingegaard & Pogačar.

73km to go, make that 10. Three + three + four.

74km to go, and the yellow jersey group is down to 13 riders – four Visma, four UAE + five others.

Read this piece, and also download Stubbleman's amazing 1:46:43 The Ventoux Trilogy. This may be the most fun I've ever had writing a cycling piece.

Can't buy that kind of advertising for the product.

There have been more rider/moto interactions involving pieces of cardboard in this Tour than any I can remember.

There will be good days and bad days. Probably more bad days than good ones.

Hello, Pog's into the green jersey as well.

I find the 'Pogačar is vulnerable in week three' narrative mystifying. He's ridden seven Grand Tours, and won stage 20 in five of them. In the other two, he won stages in the final week. Last year he won the final three stages.

It’s a way more sustainable option than flying, especially as I was essentially a foot passenger. It’s about 10 per cent of the carbon footprint of a short-haul flight.

My Italian is basic duolingo level, so don’t learn anything from me. A google suggested tappa regina is in use, but a) tappone is trad, and b) AI might have hallucinated it.

Suboptimal, but the cold was the biggest challenge. Was zigzagging down because I was shivering so hard!

Stage 16 🚴‍♂️
Bolzano - Badia
1835

Epic lone night ride over the Passo Val Gardena.

Stage 15 🚂
Verona Porta Nuova - Bolzano
1701

Final train journey before la tappa regina between Bolzano and Badia.

Am over the border into Italy now, so should be safe, but I still have the return journey to contend with…

Stage 14 🚂
Milano Centrale - Verona Porta Nuova
1515

Frowns from the train guard about the bike not being in a bag. But Italian jobsworths are amateurs compared to the Brits and French, and he not only let me on with the bike, but also put me in business class.

We should have more buildings with forests on them.

Stage 13 🚴‍♂️
Milano Porto Garibaldi - Milano Centrale
1400

Pleasant bimble away from motorised traffic, then a terrifying last 500m.