of magazines like this are about ‘what you can learn from the best’ but in my experience there’s much we can take from the riders at the back of the pack too. For three years, from 2014 to 2017, I was the ‘Lanterne Rouge’ of the Haute Route sportive series–amateur week-long rides across the Alps and Pyrenees of 700+km. The job required me to ride with the riders at the back in their times
