Three weeks before RideLondon 2024 he was on IV fluids in a hospital bed. He promised his doctors and his wife he’d ride only the shorter route, on an hour and a half’s sleep, and kept that promise exactly. Nobody had said anything about how hard he could ride it, or what happened after the finish. We tell the story of The Tenacious Cyclist’s sixty-three miles at threshold, and the eight he added.

Four years ago he went up Yr Wyddfa in a wheelchair. This time he walked it, with no cartilage in either knee. The four-and-a-half-hour descent nearly took him apart, and his watch logged it as a spa weekend.

The story of The Tenacious Cyclist on Snowdon: a summit stop that nearly switched his blood pressure off, a heart-rate monitor that was accurate and completely wrong, and a plan to come back next June on a mountain bike, purely out of spite.

In October 2019, thousands of runners were waiting at the start of Peterborough’s Great Eastern Run when a 999 call about a man on Alexandra Road brought out armed police, and the half marathon was called off. It turned out to be a misunderstanding. Jack tells the story of a race that vanished for a decade, was kept going by a diesel engine company, lost two more years to a pandemic and still keeps coming back, right through the cathedral grounds where two queens were buried.