“you can only have so many painful body parts”

For the Doc, riding alone is a blissfully thought-free zone

Saintly helpers make ultra-distance time trials tough to quit

The Tour de France is still the only race that counts for ‘them’

Call me a masochist, a dopamine junky, or just a good old-fashioned weirdo – I’ll happily answer to all of the above – but I love nothing more than to find myself teetering on the verge of complete ph

Dissecting the physiology of a 10-mile TT minute by minute, Steve Shrubsall suffers for the sake of science

From marathon tourism to Hyrox holidays, the latest trend in long-distance travel isn’t about how far away you go, but how much ground you pound while you’re there. WH ’s Jess O’Donnell reports from a trip where the most valuable currency is metrics and medals, and asks: is this departure from R&R a healthy destination?