Karen Darke – 31 January
Recently returned from three weeks bike training in Mallorca, the last week with the British Paracycling Team. I’d been scheming it since all the snow of last winter, a ‘Great [...]
Recently returned from three weeks bike training in Mallorca, the last week with the British Paracycling Team. I’d been scheming it since all the snow of last winter, a ‘Great [...]
I’ve somehow along the way come to believe that most things in life happen for a reason. Even the things that at first seem bad – like becoming paralysed – [...]
The Berlin Marathon: fast, flat, wet, and the biggest field of handbikers I’ve ever seen. 175 to be precise, from racing recumbents to handbikes clipped onto wheelchairs, with teenagers to [...]
I’m cradled into my shiny new handbike. I wait, anxious – its taken a lot to get here. “Thirty seconds to go” the race commisaire announces. Poised on the start [...]
The clocks are forward at last, lighter nights, new energy after the long cold winter months of the far north. And ‘Spring Forward, Fall Back’ seems a great metaphor for [...]