S9 Ep199: Explore | On the trail of Alfred the Great
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The 350-kilometre circular, mostly off-road, bikepacking route features a mix of gravel tracks, woodland trails, canal towpaths and rural lanes as it takes in parts of the Ridgeway, South Downs Way, Shipwrights Way and Sussex Border Path.
The route is named after Alfred the Great, who ruled the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the ninth century. The route passes King Alfred's statue in Winchester, where he is buried.
This is not just a multi-day bikepacking adventure. Adam had a specific reason for undertaking the trip, because it marked an important point in an inspirational and transformative journey he'd been on over the course of more than a year as the country locked down during the pandemic.
Find out more about King Alfred's Way here.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Explore by the cycling podcast powered by Super Sapiens. |
| 0:17.7 | Energy management for committed athletes and coaches. |
| 0:23.9 | Hello my name is Richard Muran with Lionel Barney, hello Lionel, hello Richard and we are |
| 0:27.3 | here to introduce episode three of Explore in this little mini series in November. |
| 0:32.7 | Where are we the Lionel? |
| 0:33.8 | Well we are at the Flondian Hotel near to Bracelet in Flanders in Belgium and it's a cycling |
| 0:40.7 | themed hotel and we're standing in the courtyard next to a well it's an original 1970s |
| 0:47.6 | Persho car which has been made up into a very very convincing replica of a Persho team car |
| 0:55.4 | from the era. It's got the black and white checkerboard down the side, the service course |
| 0:59.3 | wording, the SO logo, the Michelin logo, beautiful vehicle. |
| 1:04.0 | Lovely and we have just been out for a bike ride a gentle hour long bike ride, nothing |
| 1:09.0 | like some of the rides we're covering in this series of Explore. Last week we heard from |
| 1:13.2 | Mark Bohman with his audio diodes from GB Duro, a quite incredible event that kind of |
| 1:17.5 | hearts back to the very roots of stage racing, you know, for very long stages on and off road |
| 1:24.9 | Mark was the winner of that race and he really enjoyed listening to his audio diary we |
| 1:29.2 | heard from some of the other riders taking part in that as well. This week we've got |
| 1:34.0 | something very different again, haven't we? |
| 1:35.9 | We have, we're handing over the microphone to one of our producers, one of our producer |
| 1:40.2 | editors Adam Bowie who came on board a few years ago when we asked if there were any |
| 1:46.5 | audio producers out there who wanted to help put together the cycling podcast and he |
| 1:50.8 | sent in as his kind of audition tape, the matte white look mega mix which made us laugh |
| 1:58.3 | and still making me laugh to this day. I mean it was it was very well crafted, very well |
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