Altitude training in Andorra, turbo sessions in 45°C heat, and a lifetime’s worth of revision have all gone into Charlie Tanfield’s latest bid to join cycling’s history books.

This Thursday, the 28-year-old will attempt to break the UCI Hour Record , a benchmark held by Eddy Merckx, Bradley Wiggins , and most recently Filippo Ganna , whose 56.792km, set in 2022, remains the distance to beat .

For Tanfield, holding the record, and joining the list of greats, is a career dream. “I’ve watched every single attempt in the modern era. I could tell you the way that they rode them, and the splits they were riding to,” he says. You may like

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