How to…complete a VEveresting

Things got off to a bad start pretty quickly. As my virtual Trek Emonda made that famous arcing left turn onto the first slopes of Alpe d'Zwift, the online program's perfect representation of the "Hollywood climb" of the Tour de France, Alpe d'Huez, the gradient began to bite, and I began to drop down the...

“Squad” Numbers – do they add up?

Football has its great number 9s, rugby has its famed number 10s, and endless debates over whether player X would be a better 6 or 7. Shirt numbers are now ubiquitous in these sports, having been birthed in the cauldron of 1920's Australian football (that is, "soccer", not Aussie rules) to help identify players to...