After years away from bikepacking - a baby, an MSc, a house renovation - Hazel signed up for the Tor Divide to do something hard again, under her own steam. Her honest account takes in the spirals of self-doubt, the fast pack that swished by, a wall shared with a new friend on the Tissington Trail, a sleepless solo wildcamp, and a dawn ride with the trails all to herself. Proof that there's no right way to ride the Divide: make it your own, ignore the "shoulds". And waiting at the finish line, a six-year-old who steals the show.

First-time bikepacking event rider Sabina shares her honest account of tackling the Tor Divide Peak Gravel route: mechanicals, wet weather, and why riding unsupported doesn't mean riding alone.