All downhill from here

Now he’ll be freed up, one of the events Mace’s Steve Pycroft will be doing next year is riding across the French Pyrenees for a week or so at the end of May. He’s got the time after calling it a day at Mace and construction in general. To help him get over the cols, he’s enlisted the help of an online coach. Sean Yates is a former professional, a former yellow jersey wearer at the Tour de France and one of the few British cyclists to make the grade in the 1980s when cycling was regarded in the UK as just a fringe sport for oddballs. One of the climbs being tackled by the group, which also includes the boss of Mace’s consulting arm, Jason Millett, is the Col du Tourmalet, the most climbed mountain in Tour de France history. Let’s hope they don’t go down the other side as fast as Yates once did in his racing days – a truly frightening 70mph.

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