Professional cycling is a hard sport. The very nature of competition pushes the riders who take part to their physical limits.
And yet in pro cycling the hardest part of the job isn’t during the races when the world is looking on, but during the times that no one is watching at all.
Never is this truer than when riders hit the road for five weeks each June to take part in the glamorous Pearl Izumi Tour Series; the UK criterium circuit.
It’s a series in which Irish international Felix English bagged some very good results in last year riding for Continental-ranked team Rapha Condor JLT.
Racing twice a week and travelling great distances between races, the riders find themselves in a strangely detached world.
The challenges of life on the road blur the line between athlete and performer, and they find themselves learning to balance the adulation of the crowd with the loneliness of the road.
During the final weeks of this year’s Tour Series, filmmaker Andrew Telling spent time on the road with the Rapha Condor JLT team, documenting the realities of life on the road from nowhere to nowhere; the title of this short film.
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(Source Rapha Condor JLT)
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