At 80 kilometres per hour, there’s little room for bravado. On a cold descent in the Comeraghs, a familiar road, a new pothole and a moment of clarity reveal why experience often teaches us not how to go faster — but when to slow down.
One day in Calpe at the An Post ChainReactionCycles early season training camp I was one of a group of five guests who managed to crest the Col De Rates alongside Sean Kelly and face the steep twisting descent on his wheel. Adrian Hedderman, Alastair Irvine, Paul Butler, Johnny Carroll and I were about to …