I crashed I was so angry with myself. I could no longer hold anything with my right hand, such was the pain, and I had narrowly avoided being mown down by a low flying chinook helicopter. I was also very obviously flying the wrong paraglider that day, in the wrong place and at the wrong […]
I’ve got to thinking that we may be missing a trick in the way we develop resilience in employees. It only took me 2,725 miles for me to have this epiphany, but I think I am onto something. I recently participated in the Tour Divide, the self-supported mountain bike race that goes between the border
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I, like many, am in awe of Mark Beaumont who recently cycled around the world in 78 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes, covering an average of 230 miles a day. How on earth did he keep going? What lessons are there for us mere mortals? Have you ever wondered why healthy people like Mark
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‘Lookie’ sat next to his bike on the side of the Argentinean motorway in tears. He had reached the end of his tether. Haunted by the memory of a car smashing into him two years previously and overwhelmed by the volume and nature of the traffic, he could go no further. Minutes later, he was
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First published in The Huffington Post 24 September 2015 For a 47 year old business man who spends his life working with companies around the world and a hobby of participating in ultra distance cycling events, it’s been one hell of a year. Following a decade or more of mediocre results in a variety of sporting events,
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First published in The Huffington Post 29 June 2015 and on MinuteHack 30 June 2015 The business of performance It’s not the greatest recipe for the composition of a team trying to break one of the oldest records in cycling – the tandem Lands End to John O’Groats record. Despite repeated assaults, this 49 year old record has resolutely
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First published in The Huffington Post on 20 May 2015 Lessons from failure and success Supported by a fantastic team, my riding partner Charlie Mitchell and I broke the 49 year old record for cycling non-stop from Land’s End to John O’Groats on a tandem, shaving over 5 hours off the record to complete the 842 miles
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At 3:41am on Thursday 7th May 2015, the rear wheel of our tandem passed over the drain that marked the end point at John O’Groats 45 hours and 11 minutes and 842 miles after leaving Lands End. In so doing, we had broken the 49 year old End to End record that had stood since
This was first published in Bdaily Business News on 26th August 2014. It’s a flaming mess In their infinite arrogant wisdom, the “Dragons” in the latest series of BBC2’s well-known entrepreneurial roasting session Dragon’s Den recently turned down Richard and Lynn Bye’s request for investment in their cycling apparel business “Fat Lad At The Back”, otherwise known as “FLAB”.
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This was first published in Fresh Business Thinking on 16th August 2014. Man up! The deluge from the cloud burst meant the streets had become streams. As I ground my way slowly up the steep hill 150 miles in with 50 to go on a long training bike ride, a driver overtook me. The wave of water
