Paul Hughes
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Name Paul Hughes Year of birth 1952 Main cycling activities Time Trialling Hobbies outside of cycling Sailing Best cycling moment After 40+ years of riding there are too many to list: First 531 frame with Campag gran-sport gears, first sub-hour ride, following the Derney around Manchester track, climbing Alpine passes, decending Alpine passes, seeing some of the greats on various TdF (see photo)
Julia gives Lance a hand up Alpe dHuez 2001 (this is where he rode away to put 2 minutes into Ullrich)
Worst cycling moment Getting old and slow Favourite food Italian and Sunday roasts. Curries are also quite nice and then there's, fish and chips, Thai, Greek……. Best excuse for poor performance Perm any one from: the wind seemed to shift/get up for us early/late starters, I was experimenting with bigger/smaller gears, I should have done more/less warming up, a few more psi might have helped, overdone the training this week, that curry I had last night…… Favourite music Eclectic as long as its got a toon. Prodigy or Queen while on the Turbo Training tip With limited time its better to do 3 x 1hr specific sessions a week than 1x 3 hour Sunday run. Carbon or Titanium? I use ali and steel bikes, all with carbon forks but would consider all carbon. Turbo or Road? Depends what for. I use the turbo when its cold and wet to maintain fitness but its no substitute for the road. Turbo Watt meter is good for checking progress (or lack of). What have we missed? Family, partners, pets, obsessions? I'm married to Julia who is a non combative Poole Wheeler. She prefers swimming to cycling but I don’t hold that against her.
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