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“ Miles better” – how to get active, eat well and train for a 10k.  Next in our “Miles Better” blogs, is how to fuel your training, from ABL Health, our Community Health and Wellbeing Partner. As beneficial as exercise is for the body, if it’s not being backed up with a well-balanced diet, your overall fitness won’t reach its full potential. Its common sense that certain foods are not good for us – sweets, sugary treats and foods in high saturated fat to name just a few. However, that isn’t to say that all sugars and fats are bad for you. Some sugars and fats, like the ones found in certain fruits and fish are needed in our diet. But, what you consume depends entirely on the fitness regimen you’re following; Are you training for a 10k? Trying to lose weight? Are you trying to gain muscle? Are you trying to increase fitness? Perhaps a combination? First you need to establish your goal which will then help you make decisions about the foods you eat between training. For example, 

So you’ve started to get active and you are starting to feel the benefits of regular exercise. However, you might not be losing the weight or achieving the results that you were expecting yet. Perhaps its time to eat better by cooking from scratch. ABL Health our Community Health and Wellbeing Partner pass on their cooking tips.   Healthy Cooking Tips Exercise is important for your physical health, fitness and general health. But what you eat is also an important part of maintaining good general health. Want to know how to cook and prepare healthy meals? Check out our top tips! Batch Cooking With a busy schedule, cooking individual meals each and every night can be a tiresome and a time-consuming job. Why not try batch cooking? Batch cooking is a great way to save money, eat healthier and eat the right amount of food for you. Using healthy oils Oils and fats, you use for cooking and baking are often high in saturated fat and calories. Therefore, it’s important to only ea

The stars of men’s elite professional road cycling battle it out every year on the UCI WorldTour. You can’t beat the excitement of a bike race, either as a cyclist or as a spectator. We offer a fantastic selection of exclusive hospitality access and VIP experiences on the 3 Grand Tours, the 5 Monuments of Cycling and some of the other big races on the 2019 UCI WorldTour cycling calendar. Click on any of the below links to see what VIP experiences, travel packages and hospitality tickets we have available for the 2019 UCI cycling World Tour The biggest events on the professional cycling calendar are: The 3 Grand Tours – 3 week multi-day tours; Giro d’Italia , Tour de France , Vuelta a Espana The 5 One Day Monuments of Cycling –  Milan San Remo ,   Tour of Flanders ,  Paris – Roubaix ,  Liege Bastogne Liege ,  and finally  Giro Lombardia The Multi-day spring races –  Tirreno-Adriatico and Paris-Nice The One day semi-Classics –  Omloop het Nieuwsblad , Strade Bianche , Gent Weve

We are pleased to announce that we have renewed our contract with La Vuelta Espana to be official VIP Tour Operator for the next 3 years. ‘Charles Ojalvo, director of partnerships and public relations at race organisers Unipublic said ‘the Vuelta a Espana is known for its spectacular mountain top finishes and stunning Spanish scenery. Spain is the UK’s favourite holiday destination and we are very pleased to partner with the UK’s No1 cycling tour operator Sports Tours International for the next 3 years. Sports Tours International has been at the forefront of opening up cycling tourism to a wide audience globally and we are seeing the numbers of international Vuelta fans increasing every year which is very pleasing to see for us as race organisers’ Sports Tours International are official tour operators to all of the 3 Grand Tours of Cycling; the Giro d’Italia , the Tour de France and the Vuelta a Espana  as well as the 5 Monuments of Cycling; Milan San Remo, the Tour of Flanders, Par

Exercise is a key part of being healthier and happier for longer but before and after any exercise, it’s important to prepare our bodies for the challenge to come. We are looking forward to the UKFast City of Salford 10k  and we want to ensure your race ready. So we’ve teamed up with ABL Health to give you advice on how to prepare your body pre race and how to recover post race.   Here are a few hints and tips about warm up and cool down stretches: The importance of stretches Stretches keep muscles and joints both strong as well as flexible. Before a workout, stretches are used to prepare various parts of the body for the strenuous activity ahead. They ease tension and allow the body to move at its fullest potential, as well as minimising risk of injury. Post-workout stretches are used in exactly the same way but are designed to ease the body back into its usual rhythm and to help ease out any tension that has built up during the workout. Different types of stretches There a

The 10 best 2019 cycling Ride and Watch events The ideal weekend for cycling fans; ride on the same roads as the riders of the professional peloton before watching how it is done the day after or in some cases the day before. Not a cyclist? Have a look at our comprehensive collection of VIP days and hospitality experiences during all the best cycling races in 2019. Cyclo-Sportive, Gran Fondo and Cyclo-Touristique In France and Belgium it is not allowed to have several competitive events in the same weekend. To get round this the amateur event which usually takes place either the day before or the day after is classed as a non-competitive event or ‘Cyclo-Touristique’. The main difference between Cyclo- Sportives, Gran Fondo events and Cyclo Touristiques is the competitive element. Touristiques tend to be non-timed, on open roads to the traffic without a winner and without the need to have a medical certificate. The challenge remains however as some of these are very tough and you a