Edward Pickering

Ed is an experienced journalist, a former editor of Procycling and Rouleur magazines and the author of Ronde, The Yellow Jersey Club and The Race Against Time. He has covered 18 Tours de France, the Olympic Games and most major international bike races on the ground, and he's interviewed pretty much all the biggest stars in cycling in the last 20 years.

A keen endurance athlete, Ed has been competing in bike and running races since his teens. He's run a sub-three marathon, a sub-17-minute 5k and sub-5-minute mile, and doesn't know where his obsession with round numbers comes from.