Rarebreed Club

The Tenacious Cyclist | David Bainbridge
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Rarebreed Club is a resilience podcast about mental toughness, endurance, and surviving when everything breaks. This isn’t motivation. It’s what happens when your body, your plan, and your environment all turn against you.

Episodes

  1. Oct 11

    Two Men Broke the Marathon. Daddy Pig Broke Joe Wicks.

    London Marathon 2026: two men ran under two hours, Joe Wicks lost to Daddy Pig by one second, and 59,830 people finished the biggest marathon in history. Ultra cyclist Jack, who thinks running is far too much like hard work, follows it from the front to the very back: a burst blister treated with fizzy Coke, a split so fast the timing company deleted it, a man carrying a fridge, a 5.59-metre scarf, and four people who have finished every London Marathon since 1981.

  2. Oct 11

    Window Seats for a Hanging: The Great Scottish Run 2026

    Glasgow once rented out window seats to watch a hanging. The Great Scottish Run now finishes on the same spot. Thirty-five thousand people ran through Glasgow on the first weekend of October 2026, the biggest field in the race's history. Jack follows them across a motorway bridge that engineers shoved two inches sideways, past a museum that was legally meant to be sixteen miles away, through the field where the Pope's crowd got heatstroke, and under a wandering arch onto ground where the record crowd might still belong to an execution. Plus a blister mistaken for a tendon, a brother using a giant screen to heckle his sister, and the one thing in Glasgow nobody can move: a traffic cone. A dark comedy podcast about endurance events and the people daft enough to do them.

  3. Oct 11

    BHF London to Brighton Bike Ride

    On the longest day of 2026, more than fourteen thousand people rode fifty-four miles from Clapham Common to Brighton. A lot of them began by taking a coach to the start at four in the morning, with their bikes wrapped in blankets in the back of a lorry. Jack follows Europe's oldest charity bike ride down the Brighton Road: a Victorian pioneer doing victory laps of a station he'd just lost at, a man who couldn't stand middle-class people, an Iron Age hill fort, a headless dog, and Ditchling Beacon, which has been repelling visitors for two thousand years and is still very good at it.

  4. Oct 11

    Chase the Sun: Should Group Riders Get an Asterisk?

    205 miles, sunrise to sunset, and the only official who decides who won is ninety-three million miles away and has never waited for anyone. Jack follows Chase the Sun UK South, coast to coast from the Isle of Sheppey to the end of the Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare. There's a 4:30am start that one rider prepared for with sleeping tablets, and a support car that follows the slowest riders across England offering advice but refusing lifts. South London ends one solo rider's day at eighty miles. Cheddar Gorge is where they found Britain's oldest complete skeleton, and skulls polished into drinking cups. And the finish line is a pier that has burned down twice. Of 875 starters, 578 beat the sunset and 125 never reached Weston. Then the real question: is 205 miles on someone's wheel, with a car full of sandwiches, the same ride as 205 miles alone? Jack runs the drafting physics, tests the e-bike comparison, and makes a modest proposal about ribbons. Solo and unsupported, or group and support car: should they get the same medal? Tell us. Rarebreed Club: dark comedy about the endurance events people do on purpose.

  5. Oct 11

    RideLondon Is Dead: A Eulogy for the Last Ride

    RideLondon died in February 2026, aged thirteen. Nobody told the 20,000 people who rode its final edition. On 26 May 2024 they rode out of London into Essex and back to Tower Bridge, on closed roads, assuming they'd be back next year. Jack delivers the eulogy for the last RideLondon: a man who rode 100 miles on a mountain bike because his road bike lives on a turbo trainer, a man whose only preparation was shaving his legs, a rider three weeks out of a hospital bed who found a loophole in his doctors' orders, and a coffee queue in Felsted that never ended. Plus the professional sprinter who can now never be beaten, because nobody holds the race any more. Dark humour about real endurance events. RideLondon-Essex 100, the RideLondon Classique, Lorena Wiebes, and the strange way big events die.

  6. Oct 10

    The Badger, the Fox and the Drowned City: Dunwich Dynamo

    Every July, hundreds of cyclists gather at a pub in Hackney. There's no entry fee, no start gun and nobody in charge. They ride through the night to a beach in Suffolk where a medieval city used to be, before most of it fell into the sea. Jack follows the 2025 Dunwich Dynamo: a snapped gear cable fixed by a stranger at midnight, two emergency malt loaves at a 3am village stop, and bats that probably won't go for your jugular. Then he follows the one rider who reached the beach as everyone else stopped for tea, and turned north for Norwich. He had no sleep, a knee that wouldn't stay in place, and a chatty imaginary badger for company.

  7. May 17

    No One Gets Left Behind

    221 miles. Liverpool to Cardiff. Disabled and non-disabled riders. Hand cycles, trikes, tandems, adaptive bikes. One rule hanging over the entire thing like a battle flag: No one gets left behind. This episode is about Ride Together 200 and why a bunch of exhausted strangers crawling across Britain together might be one of the most quietly radical things happening in sport right now. Not inspiration porn. Not a corporate advert with piano music and a brand logo at the end. Something rarer: a cycling event built around the idea that we move at the pace of the group. In a world that rewards speed and punishes slowness, that is almost offensive. And that is exactly the point. This is Rare Breed Club. New episodes every Wednesday. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. For the full story, head to WheelsForTenacious.co.uk

  8. May 15

    Brighton Marathon 2026: Seagulls, Suffering, and the Beautiful Idiocy of 26.2 Miles

    In this episode of Rarebreed Club, Jack dives into the chaos, comedy, and quiet brutality of the Brighton Marathon 2026 — a seaside race that promises scenic views but delivers a full psychological reckoning. From the electric start at Preston Park to the long, exposed stretches along Brighton’s iconic coastline, this is more than just a marathon recap. It’s a deep exploration of why people willingly sign up for 26.2 miles of discomfort… and why they keep coming back. Expect storytelling, dark humour, and brutally honest insights into endurance, identity, and what really happens when the race strips everything back. 🎧 What You’ll Hear in This EpisodeWhy signing up for a marathon is never a casual decisionThe strange psychology of race weekend nervesHow the Brighton course tests both body and egoThe early miles lie — and why pacing discipline mattersCrowd energy, absurd signs, and why spectators are essentialThe mental battle: negotiating with yourself mid-race“The Wall” — what it is, and why it breaks peopleSeafront running: beautiful scenery, brutal realityWhy finishing a marathon changes you (even if it’s messy)The truth about endurance: it’s not pretty, but it’s real 📍 About the Brighton MarathonThe Brighton Marathon is one of the UK’s most iconic long-distance races, drawing thousands of runners each year. 📅 Date: April 2026📍 Location: Brighton, UK🏁 Start: Preston Park🌊 Course Highlights: Coastal views, rolling hills, seafront stretches🎉 Atmosphere: High-energy crowds, live entertainment, festival feel Known for its vibrant support and scenic route, Brighton offers a marathon experience that’s equal parts inspiring and unforgiving. 🧩 Key ThemesEndurance vs Identity: Who you are when things get hardDiscomfort as a Choice: Why people pursue difficult challengesThe Illusion of Control: Training vs race-day realityCommunity Energy: The power of crowds and shared experienceDark Humour in Suffering: Finding levity in pain

  9. 10/07/2025

    The Cambrian Storm Files: One Hour to Survive

    The ScenarioYou have one hour. Sixty minutes to grab whatever you think will keep you alive. No phone. No compass. Just a map — the kind of map that feels like an insult, vague enough to get you lost twice before breakfast. After that hour, you’re lifted into the sky, flown deep into the Cambrian Mountains, and dropped. The storm is already waiting. Rain like hammers. Wind like claws. Night creeping in faster than you’d like to admit. You’re alone. There’s no shelter. No warm café glowing in the distance. No group ride to cling to. No spectators to cheer you on. It’s just you, your kit choices, and the storm. This isn’t a training ground. This isn’t a race. This is a cull. The storm doesn’t care about your FTP, your marathon split, your PB, or your WOD time. It doesn’t care how many likes your ride report gets, or what you posted on Strava. It doesn’t even care if you’ve run London, ridden across continents, or shouted “NO REPS” louder than anyone in the box. The Cambrian storm only cares about marrow. It wants to see how fast it can strip you down to nothing but instinct. How long it takes before your vanity is drowned, your confidence shattered, your body reduced to meat for the bog. Each archetype steps into this storm thinking they’re prepared. Each has trained. Each has their rituals, their metrics, their comforts. But only one has trained for this: the bikepacking adventurer, who knows that storms don’t ask permission, and mountains don’t play by rules. This is their story. The storm is judge, jury, and executioner. The question is not: who’s the fittest? The question is: who walks out, and who gets eaten alive?

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Rarebreed Club is a resilience podcast about mental toughness, endurance, and surviving when everything breaks. This isn’t motivation. It’s what happens when your body, your plan, and your environment all turn against you.

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  • Creator
    The Tenacious Cyclist | David Bainbridge
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 The Tenacious Cyclist | David Bainbridge
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