Stories and photography from the road — adventures, racing, and the brands along the way.https://pedallingthroughlife.com/en-gbhttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/project-pyrenees/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/project-pyrenees/A postcard, before the postcards.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/the-road-bike-is-getting-jealous/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/the-road-bike-is-getting-jealous/Off road is the new road….Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/building-quietly/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/building-quietly/There’s a version of building something that looks like this: announcement posts, waitlists with 10,000 signups, a podcast appearance before you’ve shipped a single thing. The founFri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/the-virus-that-keeps-coming-back/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/the-virus-that-keeps-coming-back/The Virus That Keeps Coming Back (And What It Gave Me This Time)Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/the-comments-under-the-sanremo-crash/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/the-comments-under-the-sanremo-crash/On cycling's persistent, unresolved problem with women in the sportMon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/mallorca-is-fine-thats-the-problem/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/mallorca-is-fine-thats-the-problem/An unpopular opinion on cycling's most comfortable habit.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/what-stage-5-of-volta-la-marina-taught/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/what-stage-5-of-volta-la-marina-taught/What Stage 5 of Volta La Marina Taught Me About My TrainingMon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/the-road-to-valencia-doesnt-ask-the/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/the-road-to-valencia-doesnt-ask-the/200km. Perfect conditions. A 90-minute head start to chase down. And a coach-prescribed interval session waiting on the way home.Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/i-wasnt-writing-the-kilometres-were/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/i-wasnt-writing-the-kilometres-were/A comeback letter. Six weeks, a lot of road, and something to say.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/off-the-front-why-breaking-away-hurts/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/off-the-front-why-breaking-away-hurts/Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/hometown-races-hut-different/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/hometown-races-hut-different/Parcent races feel different. They are not where I grew up, but they are where I live now – the roads I train on, the climbs I sneak into weekday rides, the corners I know by feel Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/a-quiet-month-that-was-anything-but/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/a-quiet-month-that-was-anything-but/It’s been a quiet month from me, at least from the outside. The kind of quiet that people notice — the lack of posts, fewer ride photos, the odd message asking if I’ve fallen off tMon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/juggling-training-with-a-full-time/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/juggling-training-with-a-full-time/Most training advice quietly assumes that your day is built around the ride. Mine isn’t anymore. I am learning how to be a full‑time human who still trains like a cyclist, not a cyWed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/the-psychology-of-a-late-bid-what/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/the-psychology-of-a-late-bid-what/Turning pro at 36 is not really about age, it is about deciding what kind of person you want to be when the odds are no longer stacked in your favour. It forces you to renegotiate Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/old-but-gold-merry-christmas/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/old-but-gold-merry-christmas/Merry Christmas and a happy new year from us to you.Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/im-joining-strideis-in-january/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/im-joining-strideis-in-january/It was a no brainer, watch out trainingpeaks. I’m joining Stride as Head of Marketing and Growth, and it feels a bit like rolling onto a new road you’ve secretly been training for Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/inside-the-group-ride-unspoken-hierarchies/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/inside-the-group-ride-unspoken-hierarchies/There is a pattern to every group ride. It begins long before the first pedal stroke, in a subtle choreography of glances, greetings, and positioning that sets the tone for what isFri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/small-brand-big-dream-how-building/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/small-brand-big-dream-how-building/Launching a cycling brand feels a lot like lining up for your first real race. There’s that same uneasy buzz, equal parts excitement and nausea, as you pin your number on, knowing Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/its-okay-to-be-ill-really/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/its-okay-to-be-ill-really/Flu an setbacks happen, and thats all good.Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/its-all-just-noise/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/its-all-just-noise/We scroll, we post, we refresh. It’s the same cycle every day, a stream of opinions, updates, reels, and numbers that keep moving whether we look or not. In the middle of it, we’reMon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/big-steps-for-a-small-brand/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/big-steps-for-a-small-brand/There’s a strange, quiet pride in seeing something you’ve built take up real space in the world. Not an online shop or social feed, but an actual store, a place where people walk Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/from-license-in-hand-to-starting/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/from-license-in-hand-to-starting/Ever feel like life hands you a plot twist just when you thought you were scripting the ending? A few weeks back, I was musing about the wild idea of dipping a toe into pro cyclingTue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/campagnolo-made-in-italy-blinded/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/campagnolo-made-in-italy-blinded/Campagnolo’s layoffs are not just a sad headline; they are the predictable hangover from a decade of strategic denial, niche obsession, and misplaced faith in the magic of “Made inMon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/how-cycling-isnt-just-carbon-bikes/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/how-cycling-isnt-just-carbon-bikes/Somewhere between the shimmering peloton photos and the wind-tunnel-tested carbon frames, we’ve let a small but crucial truth about cycling slip away: most people on bikes aren’t rSat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/trapped-by-spam-how-whatsapp-became/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/trapped-by-spam-how-whatsapp-became/I’m writing this fully aware that I’m not going to leave it, because I have family on the other side of the world without iPhones, and there’s a group chat where I still want to share and make plans.Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/ownership-changed-but-anger-remains/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/ownership-changed-but-anger-remains/A wave of ownership change swept through the Israel-Premier Tech (IPT) cycling team this season, but judging by the reactions across social media, you’d never know it. The commentaFri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/gatekeeping-cycling/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/gatekeeping-cycling/Lets roll it back to 2018, It was just another Saturday group ride in a club I found out wasn’t for me, it didn’t look that way until I rolled into the parking lot wearing my favouMon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/why-vall-de-ebo-is-the-sa-calobra/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/why-vall-de-ebo-is-the-sa-calobra/Cyclists love a climb with a story. And few tales in European cycling lore have more drama than Mallorca’s Sa Calobra, the legendary road you must descend before you even earn the Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/bike-shop-community-customer-experience/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/bike-shop-community-customer-experience/Some Wednesday night thoughts popped in last night and I could help but think about what its like in bike shops right now.Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/how-im-playing-path-to-the-thought/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/how-im-playing-path-to-the-thought/Everything starts with a thought, a wild dream, something you say to yourself every now and then.Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/premier-tech-says-goodbye-to-israelpremier/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/premier-tech-says-goodbye-to-israelpremier/Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/when-pas-normal-studios-shows-up/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/when-pas-normal-studios-shows-up/Knock off or not, it doesn't help brand image.Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/one-bike-or-two-why-cyclists-overcomplicate/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/one-bike-or-two-why-cyclists-overcomplicate/I was once a victim of this.Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/how-i-didnt-think-id-ride-10000-kilometres/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/how-i-didnt-think-id-ride-10000-kilometres/At the start of this year, no number felt as distant as 10,000km. I was floored by an Epstein Barr virus diagnosis a soul-sapping setback that handed me weeks of fatigue and forcedSat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/when-our-minds-get-in-the-way-how/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/when-our-minds-get-in-the-way-how/There’s a villain that shows up before almost every ride. It doesn’t wear a jersey, carry a pump, or fix a flat. It lives quietly in your head, planting small seeds of doubt and buWed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/emtbs-arent-ruining-mountain-biking/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/emtbs-arent-ruining-mountain-biking/Bike Radar have lost the plot on this one and at some point you have to wonder, is cycling journalism hurting our sport more than helping it at times?Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/alison-jackson-has-just-made-one/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/alison-jackson-has-just-made-one/Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/discounts/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/discounts/Welcome to our exclusive discounts page where you can save on premium sports nutrition, cycling kits from Label Collective and more. As a valued paid subscriber, you gain access toWed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/videos/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/videos/Explore our cycling videos featuring ride reports, bike reviews, training tips, and gear demos. Watch real-world footage from epic climbs, group rides, and endurance races. Learn cWed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/the-real-joy-of-riding-with-friends/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/the-real-joy-of-riding-with-friends/Cycling, friendship, and memories on the road, it’s what cycling is all about right?Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/silcas-new-tpu-tubes-priced-at-4195/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/silcas-new-tpu-tubes-priced-at-4195/Silca’s new TPU tubes, priced at €41.95, are turning heads and not all for good reasons. While Silca touts improved design, longevity, and a handful of marginal watt savings, that Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/were-back-on-substack/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/were-back-on-substack/It feels good to be back.Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/the-myth-of-the-magic-jersey/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/the-myth-of-the-magic-jersey/Can a Maap jersey really make you a minute faster?Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/local-cycling-clubs-changing-the-sport/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/local-cycling-clubs-changing-the-sport/Local cycling clubs remain the foundation of the sport, creating connection, mentorship, and purpose for riders of every level. Discover how these communities continue to shape cycling’s future.Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/what-we-choose-to-carry/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/what-we-choose-to-carry/A reflection on balance, responsibility, and the choices that shape sustainable cycling — from the bikes we ride to the clothes we wear.Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/getting-ready-for-a-new-block-of-training/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/getting-ready-for-a-new-block-of-training/After a short recovery phase, it’s time to start a heavier training block focused on steady-state efforts and long endurance rides. I’m rebuilding structure, balancing load and recovery, and refining fuelling with real food and Nduranz nutrition to puMon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/thinking-about-deleting-strava/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/thinking-about-deleting-strava/Strava shaped how I tracked rides, chased PRs, and connected with other cyclists. But now with the Garmin Lawsuit and how the platform now feels more like social media than sport.Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/why-running-and-cycling-brands-should-team-up/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/why-running-and-cycling-brands-should-team-up/Running and cycling already share the same community spirit. Many of us do both — yet brands still treat them as separate worlds. It’s time to change that.Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/preparing-for-211-km-lessons-in-nutrition-fuel-and-joy/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/preparing-for-211-km-lessons-in-nutrition-fuel-and-joy/Preparing for a 215 km ride after more than a year off the bike reminded me that the difference between finishing strong and feeling empty lies in one simple truth, how well we fuel.Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/iphone-17-pro-cycling-photography-tips/https://pedallingthroughlife.com/stories/iphone-17-pro-cycling-photography-tips/The iPhone 17 Pro can capture more than just clear snapshots. With the right techniques, you can show speed, motion, and energy on the bike. This guide shares simple steps, from panning shots to editing on Lightroom Mobile, to help your cycling photos staFri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT