James Spragg
@james-spragg.bsky.social
Sports scientist, coach, mountain and coffee enthusiast
Giro organisers again doing their best to make the stage 20 to 21 transfer as hard as long as possible!
Got to Rome at 2:30am last year 🙈
Got to Rome at 2:30am last year 🙈
The Giro d'Italia Men 2026 🇮🇹 route with Grande Partenza in Bulgaria 🇧🇬.
What are your thoughts to the route?
What are your thoughts to the route?
December 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Giro organisers again doing their best to make the stage 20 to 21 transfer as hard as long as possible!
Got to Rome at 2:30am last year 🙈
Got to Rome at 2:30am last year 🙈
Zurich to Innsbruck has to be one of the best train journeys in the world!
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Zurich to Innsbruck has to be one of the best train journeys in the world!
Fair play to the ABC journalist questioning the Saudi Crown Prince
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Fair play to the ABC journalist questioning the Saudi Crown Prince
no one really acknowledges just how good non alcoholic beer is nowadays!
November 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
no one really acknowledges just how good non alcoholic beer is nowadays!
got stung by a bee today - in November!
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
got stung by a bee today - in November!
It’s a complex thing W’ : link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The effect of reducing work rate on total work done and time to task failure during severe intensity exercise - European Journal of Applied Physiology
Purpose This study assesses the finite work capacity (W′) above critical power (CP) when work rate is reduced during severe intensity exercise and whether reducing work rate immediately prior to task ...
link.springer.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It’s a complex thing W’ : link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Walked past the local high school yesterday. Not a single normal bike outside - only e-bikes!
100% understandable in a valley that goes from 600m straight up to 2000m but still interesting to see!
100% understandable in a valley that goes from 600m straight up to 2000m but still interesting to see!
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Walked past the local high school yesterday. Not a single normal bike outside - only e-bikes!
100% understandable in a valley that goes from 600m straight up to 2000m but still interesting to see!
100% understandable in a valley that goes from 600m straight up to 2000m but still interesting to see!
I do quite enjoy the irony that the vast majority of people who talk about the dunning-kruger effect do so from mount stupid
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I do quite enjoy the irony that the vast majority of people who talk about the dunning-kruger effect do so from mount stupid
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
I hate the clocks going back more than ever…both my kids have woken up at 5:30 every day this week
October 30, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I hate the clocks going back more than ever…both my kids have woken up at 5:30 every day this week
Stewards in Mexico…
a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a field
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a field
media.tenor.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Stewards in Mexico…
One phrase that bugs me way more than it should is ‘my PhD student’ or ‘my athlete’
As a coach, supervisor or manager your job is to support people; not to own them or their achievements
As a coach, supervisor or manager your job is to support people; not to own them or their achievements
October 19, 2025 at 5:34 AM
One phrase that bugs me way more than it should is ‘my PhD student’ or ‘my athlete’
As a coach, supervisor or manager your job is to support people; not to own them or their achievements
As a coach, supervisor or manager your job is to support people; not to own them or their achievements
Everywhere I have been today in Germany only has baby changing in the women’s toilets - an entire country stuck in the 1950s
October 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Everywhere I have been today in Germany only has baby changing in the women’s toilets - an entire country stuck in the 1950s
It’s really time to start using video drones to capture bike races
October 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
It’s really time to start using video drones to capture bike races
Reposted by James Spragg
For anyone following the life of Little Léon the Tro Bro piglet, here he is at 5 months 😍
Really hope Valentin can win him a little brother next year 🥺
From instagram
Really hope Valentin can win him a little brother next year 🥺
From instagram
October 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
For anyone following the life of Little Léon the Tro Bro piglet, here he is at 5 months 😍
Really hope Valentin can win him a little brother next year 🥺
From instagram
Really hope Valentin can win him a little brother next year 🥺
From instagram
Bronson’s accent in ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ makes it unwatchable
September 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Bronson’s accent in ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ makes it unwatchable
The best thing about data is it doesn’t give care about your opinion
Consequently - this is also why people don’t like data
Consequently - this is also why people don’t like data
September 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The best thing about data is it doesn’t give care about your opinion
Consequently - this is also why people don’t like data
Consequently - this is also why people don’t like data
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Ban him for life from all professional and amateur sport. Make an example of him. This stuff is incredibly dangerous for sport and society. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
Olympic medallist Ben Proud becomes first British athlete to join Enhanced Games
The Olympic swimming medallist Ben Proud has become the first British athlete to join the Enhanced Games, an event which allows athletes to take performance-enhancing drugs
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Ban him for life from all professional and amateur sport. Make an example of him. This stuff is incredibly dangerous for sport and society. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
Academia is bathsit...
Journal editor: Can you review this paper?
Me: No, sorry. No capacity at the moment & I'm not really in academia, so reviewing less & less. Try x,y,z
Journal editor: You failed to properly respond to my email, as you didn't click the link & select a response
Journal editor: Can you review this paper?
Me: No, sorry. No capacity at the moment & I'm not really in academia, so reviewing less & less. Try x,y,z
Journal editor: You failed to properly respond to my email, as you didn't click the link & select a response
September 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Academia is bathsit...
Journal editor: Can you review this paper?
Me: No, sorry. No capacity at the moment & I'm not really in academia, so reviewing less & less. Try x,y,z
Journal editor: You failed to properly respond to my email, as you didn't click the link & select a response
Journal editor: Can you review this paper?
Me: No, sorry. No capacity at the moment & I'm not really in academia, so reviewing less & less. Try x,y,z
Journal editor: You failed to properly respond to my email, as you didn't click the link & select a response
1 month to ski season
September 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
1 month to ski season
I only use Twitter nowadays as a way to collate various news streams into one place.
There must be a better way to do this, where you don't have to listen to the idiocracy that it has become?
There must be a better way to do this, where you don't have to listen to the idiocracy that it has become?
August 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I only use Twitter nowadays as a way to collate various news streams into one place.
There must be a better way to do this, where you don't have to listen to the idiocracy that it has become?
There must be a better way to do this, where you don't have to listen to the idiocracy that it has become?
I have a feeling the TdF might well be returning to Montmartre
July 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I have a feeling the TdF might well be returning to Montmartre
Formula 1 - ´we are the peak of technical innovation and engineering’
*drizzles for 5 mins*
Formula 1 - ‘ah, well, umm, yes, while, umm no’
#useless
*drizzles for 5 mins*
Formula 1 - ‘ah, well, umm, yes, while, umm no’
#useless
July 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Formula 1 - ´we are the peak of technical innovation and engineering’
*drizzles for 5 mins*
Formula 1 - ‘ah, well, umm, yes, while, umm no’
#useless
*drizzles for 5 mins*
Formula 1 - ‘ah, well, umm, yes, while, umm no’
#useless
How it started vs how it ended
July 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
How it started vs how it ended
Packing the car for 2 weeks away camping with 2 kids under 3 and dog
This basically involves me carrying various large bags to the car, puzzling on how to fit them in and then returning to find my gf has packed 15 things we don’t need into 7 Ikea bags with no thought to our car’s internal volume
This basically involves me carrying various large bags to the car, puzzling on how to fit them in and then returning to find my gf has packed 15 things we don’t need into 7 Ikea bags with no thought to our car’s internal volume
June 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Packing the car for 2 weeks away camping with 2 kids under 3 and dog
This basically involves me carrying various large bags to the car, puzzling on how to fit them in and then returning to find my gf has packed 15 things we don’t need into 7 Ikea bags with no thought to our car’s internal volume
This basically involves me carrying various large bags to the car, puzzling on how to fit them in and then returning to find my gf has packed 15 things we don’t need into 7 Ikea bags with no thought to our car’s internal volume