Today we did a short section of a classic French race the Paris–Roubaix which is famous for its 60 kilometres of cobbles among the gruelling 257.5 km race that began in 1896. And when I say cobbles, I don’t mean the nice Jersey cobbles you find in St Aubin’s High Street or French Lane that [...]

My goodness, I am so tired today. Lee Dixon and I had unfinished business with the tandem after breaking it first time out, but the problem is when you are on the tandem you tend to try and make sure you are doing at least half the work. And, if your partner is doing the [...]

Sadly I am definitely going to miss the last day of the Dallaglio Flintoff 2012 Cycle Slam which is a huge disappointment in one sense, but the reason for me missing the last of 22 days in the saddle gives me a huge sense of privilege and honour as I have been asked to represent [...]

It was an early start for the first day of Stage 5 from Nancy to Chalons en Champagne and we were hitting the pace from the outset. As for the new riders it was all a bit new, like the enthusiasm you have on the first day at school or your first games lesson and [...]

Yesterday was amazing. We had really good weather, but it was probably about 6 degrees when we left Basel in Switzerland. We are learning to make sure we are wearing the right apparel before we start and have packed the right alternatives in the day bag so you can be warm enough early on but [...]

The weather was terrible today. It rained all night in Horgen and I hoped it would have cleared by this morning but it was torrential all morning and carried on until mid-afternoon. It wasn’t a particularly long distance, 108 km with 939m of climbing, but it took a long time. I was out for four [...]

Sorry there was no blog yesterday, but my day never really ended for me to have time to produce one, as you will read later. I’d like to clear up a bit of a mystery to begin with. I had a few communications from people following my progress on the Cycle Slam Live Tracking who [...]

We are in that strange limbo at the moment, last night had the farewell party and this morning we said goodbye to the Stage 3 riders and we are preparing to meet the Stage 4 crew tonight. After spending the evening in the Italian ski resort of Aprica today we have taken a coach transfer [...]

I knew we were in trouble today when I saw the snow in the distance on the mountains. Then cycling past ski lifts had me thinking we were definitely in the wrong place. Actually, it was a really good day, although I don’t think I was the only member of the group feeling a little [...]

Former England and Chelsea footballer Graeme Le Saux is one of the core members of a sporting celebrity team aiming to cycle 2,872 km across Europe in 22 days.

We had the pleasure of a good friend of mine spending the day with us today. Double Olympic rowing gold medallist James Cracknell and his wife have been friends of ours for some time and it was great to see him. I was moved from my regular Group 3 to work with Freddie Flintoff and [...]

Today and yesterday being relatively short distances have almost been like recovery rides so my legs are feeling remarkably good. We had a 10 o’clock start and covered the 66 kilometres from Mantova to our hotel near Lake Garda in just over two hours, so we averaged over 31 kph which is pretty impressive. We [...]