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Our UK running events have gone global

Alongside our range of cycling and running holidays across the world, Sports Tours International also organise a wide rnage of UK running events, including the UKFast We Love Manchester 10k, The UKFast City of Salford 10k, The Alder Hey 10k, The Preston City 10k, The Tour of Tameside & more! But did you know that each and every one of our races welcomes participants from all over the globe. In 2017 at the Tour of Tameside, we were delighted to see two runners travel all the way from China to compete in the famous 4 day back-to-back endurance event as well as a former Tameside resident returning to the region from Australia. For this June’s event we have received confirmation of four runners travelling to run and meet Ron Hill MBE, our Ambassador, from Berlin in Germany. Actually from Ron Hill AC Berlin! Their running club was formed in the late 1980’s after the unification of East and West Germany when one of the clubs founding members bumped into Ron and asked if he would kindly...
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Ardennes Classics: what you can expect on this 10 day trip.

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Here at Sports Tours International we take pride in going above and beyond to ensure our customers have memorable sporting trips. The people who are the front line of this are our fantastic overseas team. As the cycling season starts to take place our overseas team prepare themselves for another year of creating memorable holidays. Cycling rep Roy has written this blog to give you an insight into Ardennes Classics  and what you can expect from this famous collection of Spring Classics races. First thing first – A little more about Roy… Roy has huge amounts of experience as an International Cycling Rep. Roy has also had the fantastic opportunity of being a bike mechanic on the professional cycling circuit so you know you are in safe hands. Roy will use his excellent knowledge of the Spring Classics to take you on rides where you’ll be able to see the professionals race at fantastic viewpoints that combine beautiful scenery with locations that give you a real sense ...
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How to ride (survive) the Cobbles

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Living “up North” in England I’ve ridden cobbles plenty of times, before I ever decided to attempt the Paris Roubaix. Most of my experience has been on cobbled climbs in or around Halifax. Trooper Lane in Halifax. More  Koppenberg, than Arenberg. Shibden Wall, Trooper Lane and Gibb lane are really more suited to practice for Flanders, rather than Paris-Roubaix. Climbing on slippy cobbles is definitely easier than riding slippy flat cobbles at time-trial speeds. So it was fair to say, that I was quite nervous the first time I hit the Paris – Roubaix Cobbles. I arrived in Roubaix a couple of days before the event, so rather then just spinning the legs I decided to take “the unknown” out of the event, by riding the cobbles beforehand. I planned a route on the normal roads straight to the Troupe d’ Arenberg so I could kick off with a 5 star sector. My rationale being, that if I could survive one of the hardest sectors, then I’d hopefully be able to survive the others. Troupe d’...
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