HeyJaredHe Who Learns, by Tom Portsmouth
Tom Portsmouth writes essays centred around the lessons from life on the road as a professional cyclist
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Define Dancing (opens the original)
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Define Dancing, for me. Is it when you get up off your backside, stand on your feet, and move with vigour, desire, and force? Where you find that by moving, more energy enters the system. Where, by moving, all the pain that made you doubt yourself suddenly dissipates. Is it a moment of respite from the stress you are in. Where it provides relief to an overworked system of fatigued muscles, so new ones can be used. How fun it is that when you start dancing, you find more power and more confidence
Les Petites Boucles (opens the original)
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Five years ago, in 2021, I went to Bellignies with my parents to race with my teammates. There I was supposed to be racing the GPs of Marbriers. Unfortunately, circumstances meant I could not race on the Saturday, and so I was forced to become a spectator for the day.There I found the wind in my hair—in a very different fashion—to be in equal parts welcoming and unsettling. First, for the racer who was hoping to race the next day, sitting out in the bracing wind all day can really take it out of
Challenge Mayennais iii (opens the original)
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What a weird race. I’m not one for negative racing, and yet sometimes the only move that I can play is to call the bet which Mayenne had made winning the General classification, by scoring the most points across the three stages. This provided, in some ways, the opportunity for far more cagey racing than on a time-based system. Especially given Alix Bri… Read more
Challenge Mayennais ii (opens the original)
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A race of two halves, at least in terms of the sensibility of time passing. The first circuit, was fast, hectic and definitely not built for 200 guys taking to the start line, out of which I started dead last. I held position for one lap, as I normally do, so that I can read and learn the intricacies of the tour. Then a lap later I promptly moved up wit… Read more
Challenge Mayennais i (opens the original)
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130km, some 1600m elevation gain across the day and coming off the back of a few days of illness meant that today's race at Challenge Mayennais might have been a shock to the system. However, I have put in a solid three weeks of training, with two of those out exploring the Vosges. And with knowledge that accepting the rest my body needed, allowed me to… Read more
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