The full, original version of this article was published in the 28th August 2025 print edition of Cycling Weekly. Subscribe online and get the magazine delivered direct to your door every week.
There are plenty of resources out there for people getting started in cycling, but if you’re coming back to it, the energy is both figuratively and physically far harder to come by. I went from the literal heights of living at altitude in the French-Italian Alps, riding six days a week as an Alpine tour guide, to losing most of my fitness in what seemed like the blink of an eye. Running a custom bike business took over my life to the extent that I had neither the time nor physical resources to look after myself.
