Posts Tagged: NC500

Big Interview: Mark Beaumont

The May issue of HIAL’s Connect has just hit the airport shelves… which means that if you missed your copy, you missed my ‘Big Interview’ with ‘Around-the-world-in-80-days’ cyclist Mark Beaumont. Here it is for perusal at your leisure. Don’t say I’m not good to you! From a home-schooled ‘Swallows and Amazon’ childhood on a smallholding… Read more »

Clever, clever NC500, and Pokemon GONE!

Castle of Old Wick. Image Alan Hendry

What’s not to love about NC500? At the time of writing (and I fully expect this record to be broken again soon) the fastest time for cycling all 518 scenic but hilly miles of the NC500 route is 29 hours. That record was set by cyclist James McCallum in June, who pedalled almost non-stop round… Read more »