Alan Colville: The extremely climber
Mountain biker turned ultra-climber Alan Colville, 50, turned his consideration to Everesting as lockdown took maintain final yr. Realising he had a expertise for epic-duration climbing, he took it one step additional and in September this yr set a brand new world document for elevation gained in 48 hours.
Beginning late needn’t maintain you again
The place I grew up in Tipperary, in Eire, there was no grassroots biking infrastructure, so I got here to it extremely late. I did not begin till 2007 [aged 36], whereas in New Zealand, when a buddy put me on a mountain bike, threw me onto a descent, and I completely liked it. By 2010 I used to be ending inside the highest 20 within the UK nationwide XC sequence.
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