Cycling Plus

TEST OF FETTLE

July should have been the month when Team Alpecin’s Paul, Steph and Marcus headed to France and got stuck into the 2020 L’Etape du Tour – the best day in amateur cycling. Instead, they had a somewhat less glamorous date with destiny on a turbo trainer at home…

As we’ve documented in previous issues, our trio, rather than a summer-long road season around Europe, took up the Covid-19-necessitated Alpecin Cycling Challenge, a three-month programme of intensive turbo sessions to up

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