James Belsey

Clinical exercise scientist.
Ich bin kein Berliner.
#Travel: 32 countries in Europe & North/South America.
#Parkrun, cycling, duathlon.
Learning how to think.

[James Belsey @JayPeaBe]

@PhoPodcast just got round to listening to the promo you put out for Around the World in 90 minutes! Just subscribed on Spotify.

Great to hear from you both again - genuine nostalgia while I was out running.

Still smashing it up in Manchester 💪

[James Belsey @JayPeaBe]

@Scienceofsport Not sure if you've covered this already on the pod but this was just published in The Daily Telegraph in the UK. Would love to hear your thoughts. Seems like it cuts out the middleman that blood doping served in the 90's!

https://t.co/W5BgHRdKBN

[James Belsey @JayPeaBe]

@BoycottTNT @wbd

[Dan Martin @DanMartin86]

@marbh345 The majority of race organisers pay to have their races on TV. Cycling is mostly free to air in Europe meaning the TV rights are not prohibitive. This is cycling becoming popular enough that the broadcaster thinks they can up the price

[James Belsey @JayPeaBe]

Couldn't have put it better myself. No, seriously. He's far more creative and articulate...

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Trump wins the White House. Again.
The Democrats blew it. Again.
A depressing yet predictable result.

[Daniel Lloyd @daniellloyd1]

Tadej Pogačar has just completed one of, if not the most impressive cycling season ever.

Tour de France 🥇
Giro d'Italia 🥇
World Road Championship 🥇 🌈
12 x Grand Tour stage wins.
Liège Bastogne Liège 🥇
Il Lombardia 🥇
Strade Bianche 🥇
GP Montreal 🥇
Unbeaten in stage race GC
25 wins from 57 days of racing.
24 wins at WorldTour level

This year, he's racked up:
- 11 more wins than Ineos Grenadiers 30 riders combined
- More wins than 11 of the 18 WorldTour teams.
- Double the Grand Tour stage wins of the 2nd most successful team behind UAE (Alpecin).

However you look at the stats, they're astounding, and that's before you even consider the manner in which he's won most of those races.

We might never see another season like it.

[James Belsey @JayPeaBe]

On The King’s Speech: "the monarch delivers it in a neutral tone, to avoid any appearance of political support. This, I suppose, in contrast to his usual enthusiasm and fiery rhetorical flair." 😂

Hilarious from @CosmicSkeptic for @unherd
https://t.co/6tR6HdwzxH

[James Belsey @JayPeaBe]

@LauraKenny31 Well done Laura. Best of luck and thanks for the thrills!

[James Belsey @JayPeaBe]

@fasc1nate Looks a bit like Joseph Gordon-Levitt in this pic

[James Belsey @JayPeaBe]

@irishpeloton Brilliantly written! Absolutely read it with your voice and mannerisms in my internal monologue. Funny and interesting... The article, not you 👍

[James Belsey @JayPeaBe]

@Scienceofsport This person's bio says it all... "Terrible opinions are my own".

[James Belsey @JayPeaBe]

@VicksRandallEdu @parkrunUK This would be true for me if I went yesterday... I'm still on 98 as a result 😂👎

[James Belsey @JayPeaBe]

@EscapeCycling Vingegaard looks like he's about to launch the new iPhone

[Jonas Creteur @jonas_creteur]

📊 Wout van Aert has raced 2⃣3⃣ international championships (Olympics +🌈 + 🇪🇺 ) as an elite rider in cyclocross & on the road.

He has finished on the podium 1⃣8⃣ times (=78%)

3x 🥇 - 12x 🥈 - 3x 🥉

[James Belsey @JayPeaBe]

@timkeyperson The free walking tour of the communist/soviet history of Bratislava is really interesting.

[Team Visma | Lease a Bike @vismaleaseabike]

🇪🇸 #LaVuelta23

A picture is worth more than a thousand words. 💛❤️🩷

#𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 https://t.co/M9

[Team Visma | Lease a Bike @vismaleaseabike]

🇪🇸 #LaVuelta23

Dear pink, yellow and red... #colouringhistory

🩷💛❤️

[James Belsey @JayPeaBe]

@nocontextfooty @VicksRandallEdu

[James Belsey @JayPeaBe]

@ThinkingAtheist That being said, there are rational reasons for living as though a god does exist. As much as there are rational arguments for rejecting the premise entirely and living without god or organised religion.

[James Belsey @JayPeaBe]

@ThinkingAtheist There is no certainty that they don't exist. But there is equally no compelling evidence to suggest they do either.

Making a statement in support of either side is ultimately based upon belief.

When it comes to what is true, we are all agnostic.