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A question of honour

If I zoom in on Strava, I can see exactly where my existential crisis began.

The red line plotting my trajectory up Newlands Pass from Keswick in the Lake District is straight and smooth until the 300m contour. Then it suddenly starts to resemble the ECG graph of someone being the told the price of the latest Assos bibshorts.

The fact that I struggled up the steepest bit of one of Cumbria’s most notorious climbs wasn’t the crisis, however. According

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