I'm off for a week today - on a cycling holiday! I'll be travelling with two very good friends of mine - Ryan and Ciaran - from Muni...

Stage 1, day 4 (Monday, 17 May 2010)   Králíky to Náchod (98 km) I peek nervously out of the window first thing on Monday morning. The ra...

Stage 1, day 3 (Sunday, 16 May 2010) Zlaté hory to Králíky (111 km) I'm up and over another climb. This should be the easy bit: the d...

Stage 1, day 2 (Saturday, 15 May 2010): Opava to Zlaté hory (104 km) I'm wrecked. I'm still only half way up this climb, but the...

Stage 1, day 1 (Friday, 14 May 2010):  Bohumín to Opava (50 km) Bohumín railway station, 3.25 pm, Friday. Here at last, after months of p...

Many thanks to those whose nominated this blog for a Crank award. The upshot is that it has made the shortlist of five nominees for best Com...

Today - 20 May - is the last chance to nominate my blog for the Crank World Cycling Blog Rankings. All you have to do is open the Crank no...