David Bates

Nov 12, 2024 | thetimes.com | David Bates

Jan Ullrich spent the autumn and winter of 1997 in some style. From a momentous victory in the Tour de France, he progressed into an off-season of momentous indulgence: living at a vineyard, feverishly clearing his friends’ fridges and heating Nutella in a microwave until he could drink it through a straw. By January 1998, when the 24-year-old arrived in Mallorca for Telekom’s winter training camp, Ullrich had gained 20kg.

Oct 15, 2024 | ffnews.com | Lauren Hinton |David Bates |Soups Ranjan

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Oct 5, 2024 | thetimes.com | David Bates

The cost of physical endeavour is not always visible at first glance. A missed birthday party, perhaps, or an uneaten slice of cake. Maybe just the quiet discomfort of training alone in the rain. But if Zara Lachlan succeeds in her bid to row across the Atlantic alone — to break three world records — the toll will be right in front of her, in the mirror and on the weighing scales.

Sep 25, 2024 | thetimes.com | David Bates

There are 20 hairpin bends on the descent of Alto de Velefique. In daylight, it sweeps and it flows and if you like to ride a bike downhill, you could be happy there. But in the early morning darkness of September 2, thick cloud had settled close to the mountainside and I could see little beyond my damp front tyre. Each corner swung from this haze like the imagined crash that startles you from a waking dream. The rain that had begun gently half an hour earlier was now falling remorselessly.

Aug 28, 2024 | thetimes.com | David Bates

Cynthia Carson has won ultra-races in the Flint Hills of Kansas, in the Andes and the Atlas Mountains, and still she is convinced that it is not possible to truly prepare her body for the ordeal. Even for those hardened by experience, it requires a step into the unknown. “There’s no way you can train for riding continuously for two days,” she said. “It’s more that you build the capacity and then you just take it much further.” For nine months, I have been trying to build this capacity.