Dr. Hutch
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Dr Hutch: How to prepare for disastrous underperformance at a bike race
It’s all rather easy when you know how...
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: ‘Henri Desgrange came up with the perfect 21st-century bike race... in 1903’
Shorter stages be damned. What the Tour needs is more suffering
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: ‘I once thought ketones were so good they’d rendered training obsolete’
The deeper your pockets, the better the placebo effect
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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I know very little about football, but I know that there is no sport in the world that you can’t analyse to the benefit of the player, says Dr Hutch
Dave Brailsford is poised to enter the world of Premier League Football, and the Doc believes he will fit right in
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: Cycling is not a good sport for wearing glasses
It’s hard to race a bike in non-tinted glasses without looking like a Swiss cyclo-tourist from 1985 who has stumbled onto the course by accident, muses Cycling Weekly's columnist
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: Cyclists are basically a group of giant Lycra wasps cruising round the countryside looking for sugar
Cycling Weekly's columnist looks into the fairground mirror of cyclists' relationship with food and decides that, on reflection, he's OK with the weirdness
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Faster: The cycling podcast from Dr Hutch
Dr Hutch is back with season two of his podcast Faster as he speaks to the worlds best riders about how they go.... well, faster.
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: When did bikes start to cost half the UK average wage?
Modern bikes are better, Hutch admits. But are they five times better?
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: Cyclists are not intrinsically tougher than footballers, but sympathy is in much shorter supply
Cycling is still the brutal, unrefined punch-up that it’s always been, muses Hutch
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: Are smartwatches now ruling our lives?
Cycling Weekly's columnist discuses the pleasures and pitfalls of owning something tracking every movement he makes in a day
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: Back pain is your body's way of telling you to cycle more
Cycling Weekly's columnist explains why he decided on curing his back pain by getting on his bike even more
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: Why women were the pioneers of bike racing
If it wasn't for female riders, we'd all still be falling off our Penny Farthings
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: Reverse ‘proper cyclist’ snobbery
All ‘proper’ cyclists are used to being taunted by civilians, says the Doc, but what happens when one turns out to be better than you?
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch column: How to minimise the blow to your ego when you get dropped
It's as much about timing as any other cycling skill, muses the Doc
By Jonny Long Published
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Dr Hutch: Revealing the real motivation behind Sunday morning bike rides
The weekend ride is a sacred ritual, but what motivates us to haul ourselves out of bed on a Sunday morning? Lunacy, says Dr Hutch
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: Long time trials are more like an awkward eating competition
Long-distance time trialling offers all-over body pain and unbridled tedium. What’s not to love?
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: Hardriders events are strictly for the soft-headed
Hardriders events are strictly for the soft-headed, says the Doc, who has suffered through a few himself
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: Cycling is linguistic chaos
Cyclists have an inadvertent multi-linguistic flair, muses the Doc
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: Now's the chance to show off your winter cycling knowledge
If you're going to pick a fight with a new rider, says Dr Hutch, then choose your target wisely
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr. Hutch: How to combat the anti-cycling brigade
The Doc fights fire with fire when it comes to the anti-cycling brigade
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: The Yates twins are a science experiment waiting to happen
Simon and Adam Yates need to be recognised for their honesty in admitting that there are two of them, says Dr Hutch
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: Can we have Strava wind segments, please?
An ill wind blows through Dr Hutch's training roads that Strava would do well to recognise
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: Cycling spectatorship is a sport in itself
Horses are passé but camels and killer whales are encouraged... The Doc considers cycling spectatorship to be a sport in itself
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr. Hutch: The thankless task of organising the Tour of Britain
With over 250,000 miles of Great British roads to choose from, and even more nitpicking fans to keep happy, the Tour of Britain’s route man has the most thankless job in cycling, reckons the Doc
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: Surely we can come up with something better than 'MAMIL'?
MAMIL is a clever yet misleading acronym — the Doc has therefore thought of a more descriptive and accurate term for cyclists
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: 'There is one nice thing about being a hospitalised cyclist...'
When Dr Hutch visited the doc recently, he quickly had to steel himself for some bad news and adjust to the thought of six weeks on crutches
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr. Hutch: Cycling vs football
The world’s biggest football tournament and the world’s biggest bike race go head-to-head this year. Which will you be watching, asks the Doc
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr Hutch: Celebrating the terrible cycling kit of the 1990s
Dr Hutch dons his dark glasses and sifts through the dazzling cycling fashion crimes of the late 20th century
By Michael Hutchinson Published
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Dr. Hutch: Taking on the Cape Wrath
Born adventurer Hutch channels the spirit of Rex Coley and heads to Scotland’s feared Cape Wrath
By Michael Hutchinson Published
