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Nutrition For Cyclists

All cyclists have felt it… A tiredness that stops legs from spinning, head dipping, dizzyness, confusions and a general unhappiness. Such a sudden change from “wohooooooo I´m the Tour de France champion” to “I hate cycling!” How can this be? We asked Gemma Sampson, Accredited Sports Dietitian & Performance Nutritionist (Dietitian Without Borders) for an expert […]

Vision for a new type of Bike Shop

It’s just under 4-weeks until the opening of our new Girona Hub and you are all invited! https://www.facebook.com/events/157923644829501/ The Hub, as we are calling it, is the culmination of learning from 2 previous smaller shops in Girona, hours of debate, benchmarking, research and endless sketches by our more creative third, Louise. We love keeping our […]

“I don’t ever know what I’m looking for in this state, but I know when I find it”

Cycling around Andalucia in southern Spain over the last few days has been a bit of an adventure, to say the least. Was it really Wednesday morning when we left Girona, collected a bike in Barcelona and drove 1,000 kilometres south to Granada for a recce trip of Andalucia for tours we plan to deliver? […]

Cycling Climbs of Girona: #3 Sant Marti Sacalm

Sant Marti Sacalm is THE 20-minute power test cycling climb of the Girona region and if you come here for a visit you can´t leave without giving it a blast, as we say in Eat Sleep Cycle language. At 5.2 miles, or 8.6 kilometres it´s not particularly long and at an average of 7% it´s […]

Cycling Climbs of Girona: #2 Els Angels

Els Angels, often mistakenly called “Hells Angels” by Girona newcomers (a simple error in pronunciation, not down to its difficulty…read on) is the climb that got me to Girona. Tired of poor training routes around my work for lunchtime escapes, I was determined to do any job that had good riding on the doorstep. So […]

Cycling Climbs of Girona: #1 Sant Hilari Sacalm

My introduction to Sant Hilari couldn´t have been any worse; a freezing cold gilet-less descent on January 7th, 2012 followed by my training partner hitting the deck VERY hard and escaping the sharp edge of a steel road barrier by the width of a tyre. He can count himself lucky he got away with a […]

Eat Sleep Cycle’s 1 year Anniversary

So much has happened in the first year of Eat Sleep Cycle that for the first time in my life looking back actually slows time down. “Were we really painting the walls of our first shop the night before it opened just one year ago?!” I have never enjoyed reminiscing so much! Yesterday around 60 […]

Girona in ‘winter’ and the season of base miles

I absolutely love this time of year in Girona; the tourists have moved on, the light at sunset is magical and the markets are exploding with colour and flavour.  We are still riding with our arms and legs out and some of the Eat Sleep Cycle team are actually improving their tan lines! But then again […]

Cycling North Spain: Asturias, Cantabria & the Picos de Europa

Eat Sleep Cycle’s Lee & Louise traveled north to explore the green lands of Asturias, Cantabria and the hidden gem of the Picos de Europa. Lee gave us this report of the adventure. Cycling in North Spain I must admit I did not know what to expect from our recent reccy to North Spain. I’d […]

Girona’s perfect season

I’m in the perfect frame of mind to write this blog. I’ve just spent the day at the beach in a small place just outside of Begur called Taimaru. It’s a 50 minute drive from Girona. It was the most perfect day I have ever spent at the beach. The sun was warm but not […]

The coffee that ruins all other coffees

I didn’t really have anything to complain about. I was working as a bike mechanic in a very nice typical Belgian bike shop in my hometown of Antwerp. I had a good boss (it feels a bit odd to call him boss) and a job I enjoyed very much. I spent two winters working and […]

Passo Stelvio & Eat Sleep Cycle

Stevio has a special place in Eat Sleep Cycle history. Eat Sleep Cycle founder Lee shares why on our recent recce tour of the Dolomites. Yesterday was a very special day for Louise and I and also a turning point for Eat Sleep Cycle. At the crack of dawn and in single digit temperatures, we […]

The wonder of Carrer de la Rutlla (Roo-ee-ya!)

By Brian Canty Next month I’ll be celebrating three years in Girona and I’m just amazed at how quickly the time has gone. I still have the most vivid memories of those early days and weeks of arriving on 94/96 Carrer de la Rutlla, a street that meant absolutely nothing to me back in late […]

The rock and roll lifestyle of a bike tour guide in the Pyrenees

I won’t thank my new editor Lee Comerford for tasking me with the most general of all assignments; ‘a blog on the last week’, or something like that, would be great. Tonight. How can one sum up in words what it feels like to ride across the Pyrenees for work? How impossible is it to […]

2009, Bedoin and the start of a beautiful love affair

By Brian Canty The Tour de France is like no other event in the world of professional sport and it´s a race I hold very, very dear.  My first experience of it was on a balmy July evening in 2009, a couple of months  after I´d finished college in Galway. Without much money or cycling […]

Dealing with the heat when riding abroad this Summer

Most of us cyclists crave the sunshine and to escape the bad weather of our home countries. Cold and wet weather can make long rides harder, especially if you are not dressed for it. As summer temperatures in Girona hit the thirties, cyclists can be challenged equally, but in very different ways. Having just nearly […]

Andorra: A theme park for cyclists

Driving into Andorra late Friday evening reminded me of the first time I drove to Las Vegas. Granted, the long dark single road into Andorra is far more windy, but the suspense of arriving at a far away and strange place equaled. Once we crossed the border (not quite knowing whether a smile, wave or […]

Why Girona isn’t Mallorca

As a cycling business owner in Girona I sometimes look across the pond to Mallorca and wonder about the mass cycling market it has attracted. I have been there myself as both a cyclist and non-cyclist so I know the benefits the island offers. Smooth roads, steady climbs, favourable weather and cheap hotels with huge […]

Vallter 2000: Life in the support vehicle

Yesterday 20 apprehensive cyclists left Girona early in the morning bound for Vallter 2000, the highest point in the whole of Catalunya. It was our 2nd Challenge Day of the year. For the first we conquered the 3 famous peaks in Girona and I wrote a blog about my personal achievement riding it too. It […]

Why it’s time we started to warm to the running man in the yellow jersey

(This article first appeared on the stickybottle.com website here and is being published here with the kind permission of the author) I’m not a Chris Froome fan; or at least I wasn’t. I’m not too sure why, but I just never took to him. But his actions this week in racing aggressively and attacking when […]

Arcalis and the start of a beautiful love affair with cycling

Brian Canty writes from Andorra and reflects on the glorious racing this small mountainous country has hosted – from Jan Ulrich in the 1997 Tour to Dan Martin ripping up the field in yesterday’s race. Watch as Jan Ullrich rides the peloton off his wheel on stage 10 of the 1997 Tour de France. Watch […]

Rocacorba: Girona’s Hidden Gem of A Climb

Snuggled away 20 kilometres north of Girona is a monstrous climb that owes nothing to TV coverage . You’ll hardly find it on a map and you’ll even struggle to find the road that leads up to it from the nearby town of Banyoles. Yes, Rocacorba hasn’t the ‘bucket-list’ fame  of Alpe d’Huez or the […]

20 reasons why living in Girona is awesome

Living in Girona has become a goal for pro-riders, cycling influencers & keen amateurs alike. Here's our 20 reasons why cyclists just keep coming!

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