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You may remember Michael Hayward from such stories as ‘Running with the Wolves’, his account on spokemagazine.com of taking part in the 2015 Megavalanche (“I pitied the surgeons who would have to reassemble me like some huge, fleshy puzzle”). Or you may have spotted him riding around Christchurch and Craigieburn on his coil shock- equipped Giant Reign. Or maybe it’s the beard you noticed.

The impression he’s made on the editorial team at , however, has mostly to do with the fact that he’s in possession of the rare sportswriting gene, which bestows upon its host both an in-depth technical knowledge of a given sport and the ability to spell all the “ie/ei”