The My Whoosh Big Ride Challenge can be anything you want to be, and for Stephe Fletcher it’s a great motivation to get out and ride his bike.

While some riders comfortably hit the 5,000 mile target, for Stephe joining Cycling Weekly’s challenge for its first year back in 2020 is what gave him the motivation to up his mileage. And since then he’s hit the target every year except 2023, when a crash on a slick bike path left him with a broken leg.

“It is an extra motivation to just do it,” Stephe tells us from his home in Cumbria a few weeks after clocking up 5,000 miles for 2025 and adding his name to the finishers list. “Apart from ’23, I've always done the CW5000, and four of the years, have [gone on to do] 10,000. I was a bit disappointed I only got the 3,000 in the year of the [br

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