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Cyclist maps 109-mile Father Christmas Strava art across Paris; New bike day; Weekend round-up + more on the live blog

Cyclist maps 109-mile Father Christmas Strava art across Paris; New bike day; Weekend round-up + more on the live blog

It’s the start of a new live blog week… Dan Alexander will be getting things up and running this Monday morning, with editor Jack Sexty…

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It’s the start of a new live blog week… Dan Alexander will be getting things up and running this Monday morning, with editor Jack Sexty dipping in throughout the day… SUMMARY

Strava art Anthony Hoyte December 2022 (Strava) The Strava artist behind some of the best festive GPS masterpieces has added another to the collection…

Setting off at half four on Saturday morning, Hoyte (the pedalling Picasso) racked up 13 hours of moving time, finishing just after 8pm that evening as he drew the 109-mile long Santa across the French capital. Taken at an average speed of 13km/h presumably due to the quite ridiculous amount of navigation involved, Anthony’s ‘Pedal-powered Père Noël’ burnt him 3,261 calories and amassed 1,129m of climbing.

Hoyte’s past works include: > Strava artist pedals through London’s streets to sketch huge snowman > Cyclist Anthony Hoyte creates epic reindeer Strava art Anthony Hoyte That’s a lot of brilliant hours planning routes… now go hit that kudos button… > Beat the wind on your bike: 7 route planning hacks to increase average speed and make windy rides more enjoyable Weekend round-up: Bike thieves hit TikTok; Cav’s future uncertain; Your next home trainer?; Tech of the Week + more

Ah Monday…

If you switched off your devices all weekend in favour of I don’t know, God forbid, actually going for a bike ride, here’s what you might have missed…

Back on Cavwatch and things don’t look great, with sources this weekend saying the Manx Missile "100 per cent" won’t ride for Jérôme […]

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