Cycling Weekly Big Fitness Project: Introducing the Class of 2022

Our Big Fitness Project will follow three amateur riders as they pursue some big cycling goals in 2022

The three new Big Fitness Project participants
L-R: Danny Lloyd, Julia Barte and Steve Faulkner
(Image credit: Future)

For the past few years Cycling Weekly has invited a team of readers to share their journey towards their riding goals. In 2022 we'll be following Julia Barte, Steve Faulkner and Danny Lloyd as they work towards race success, TT time targets and some big sportive finishes. We'll be bringing you regular progress reports for the next six months but first meet our Big Fitness Challengers!

Julia Barte: The natural born sports star

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David Bradford
Senior editor

David Bradford is senior editor of Cycling Weekly's print edition, and has been writing and editing professionally for 20 years. His work has appeared in national newspapers and magazines including the Independent, the Guardian, the Times, the Irish Times, Vice.com and Runner’s World. Alongside his love of cycling, David is a long-distance runner with a marathon personal best of 2hr 28min. Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) in 2006, he also writes personal essays exploring sight loss, place, nature and social history. His essay 'Undertow' was published in the anthology Going to Ground (Little Toller, 2024).