Conversations with people navigating the world of sight loss

Why are there still no openly gay male pro cyclists? I spoke to riders with first-hand insight

Interrogating the bold claims made in the Netflix documentary ‘The Game Changers’

Investigating just how much fitter I’d have to get to keep pace with a World Tour star

An interview for Hidden Stories, talking about having an invisible condition

Retracing by bike my grandfather’s footsteps across northern Germany in spring 1945

“A very fresh account of one man’s wartime experience; this is exactly the kind of history I like the best” — Louis de Bernières

Cycling the Irish border with Anton Thompson-McCormick: a co-written long read for the Irish Times

An autobiographical essay about growing up on the flatlands of East Sussex, amid Woolf-dreams and wild water

A tribute to WNP Barbellion, marking the centenary of his final diary entry in The Journal of a Disappointed Man

#MuddyTrainersClearMind promo for SportsShoes

Evaluating the credibility of DNA testing for sporting potential

Investigating growing evidence of a link between endurance exercise and heart rhythm problems

Analysis of Cycling Weekly doping survey — poll of 1,400 amateur riders

Short essay written for the MS Trust

The Canadian cyclist tells of her struggle to end the suffering and
injustice that have resulted from sport’s contentious rules on gender

There’s nothing more soul-sapping than a lengthy chat with a barefoot-running fundamentalist – as a new scientific study proves

A pair of hapless Withnail & I fans ride in search of aleful mirth on a pilgrimage to the film’s most sacred Lakeland sites

Dispelling the myths surrounding lactic acid, with the help of a cancer surgeon and an exercise physiologist

An attempt to describe sight loss and how it keeps me in touch with life’s many other unseen and unseeable vagaries

An interview with anti-doping scientist Professor Yannis Pitsiladis

An investigation into the complex nature of pain, featuring an interview with Jens Voigt

Meeting the parents of children who are losing their sight as a result of a rare form of retinitis pigmentosa — and finding out about their quest to find a treatment

An interview with the ‘angry young man’ who in 2009 cycled around the world in record time – as a crusade for political change

Catching up with the UK’s leading duo of the 3000m steeplechase. Why the hell choose track’s cruellest event?

Why have British marathon running standards declined so dramatically since the Eighties? An interview with Derek Stevens (2:12 in 1984) and Jon Pepper (2:19 in 2013)

Do runners and cyclists need to consume additional salt to replace sweat losses? UK specialists Precision Hydration say yes; Professor Tim Noakes strongly disagrees

Training in Bekoji, Ethiopia. Why does this small town produce multitudes of champions, whereas my hometown, Lewes, produces none?

An interview with Pearl Zia, founder of Lewes’s first and largest food bank, about how the service operates and why people are going hungry in a town that’s apparently so affluent

American memoirist Jim Knipfel manages to find much mirth in the experience of being blind in a sighted world. But is there really a funny side to sight loss?

A visit to Bekoji in Ethiopia, to try to discover how this small highland town produces an improbably big share of the world’s best runners

An email exchange with the blind theologian John Hull, beginning: ‘Should I take part in a Channel 4 film about losing my sight?’

Speaking to the fastest 59-year-old in the world about how he holds back the years to such incredible effect

A ride designed by Suzy Joinson, author of A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar, in and around her hometown of Shoreham

Discussing the recent ‘Gay girl from Damascus’ hoax – and much else besides – with a young gay man who grew up in the Syrian capital

Meeting Dave Heeley, the blind runner who completed seven marathons on seven continents in just seven days

On being diagnosed with degenerative eye condition retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 24 while working as a journalist on a motorcycle magazine

An interview with Sussex’s most prolific race-winning club runner, James Baker

Riding with Correze Cycling in the foothills of the Massif Central in the heart of France – shoes or no shoes

How to perform at your best in a multi-day stage running race such as the Cyprus Challenge

An essay on seeing, not-seeing, knowledge and light

Meeting Phil Collins, the entrepreneur who is collecting all the toys he could only dreamily covet as a polio-afflicted child growing up in Brighton

Big claims are made for the potency of nitric oxide-boosting supplements as regards endurance performance. So we put them to the test…

The term ‘late bloomer’ applies to few athletes as pertinently as it does to Ian Leitch. He became a professional on the XTERRA circuit at the end of 2009, aged 34, and since then he has been putting his maturity to scorching effect in the XTERRA World Tour. So the obvious question is: what took him so long?

Lord Attenborough, who stepped down as Chancellor of the University of Sussex last year after 10 years as its internationally renowned figurehead, has been one of the University’s most ardent and committed supporters for four decades. His passion for Sussex was borne of personal ties with Brighton and a deep-rooted respect for education.

I’ve missed the boat many times in my life, but never before has it cost me so dear.

When does a love of running become an unhealthy obsession? We are all probably guilty of loving running too much, but what happens when it takes over your life?

At the beginning of 2006, I had no inkling there was anything wrong with my eyesight.

Can you imagine being told you’ll never be allowed to ride a bike again? That’s what happened to me at the end of 2006.