Ross Burrage

Truly awesome day yesterday with the first proper pan-African @GoZwift racing, thanks to COMC, with riders from: 🇺🇬 Masaka Cycling Club @RossBurrage 🇧🇯 Benin Cycling Federation @Febecy 🇨🇩 Goma Cycling Club 🇬🇭 Isaac Sackey Cycling Academy (+ We think we saw a 🇪🇷 on the startline!) You can see the race highlights here: youtu.be/rCZSFvZkA0o?si… #VirtualPerformanceCenter #AfricaRising

We have updated our Africa Women’s Cycling Newswire with all the latest: - The @WCC_cycling Women’s Team roster coming out on @ProCyclingStats with FIVE African women from across the continent! ❤️🌍 - Our latest podcast featuring @shannonporthau1 and @KJCRides talking about the news above, and the great work of the @UCI_cycling World Cycling Centre’s #Africa2025 project 🎙️ - The great news that Uganda’s rising star Nantume Miria - of Masaka Cycling Club @RossBurrage - has been selected for @Cyclists_All 2026 Mentor Program 🇺🇬 Check it all out on our website here: teamafricarising.org/african-womens…

Congratulations on this well deserved Lifetime Achievement Award! ❤️🏆 Your work narrating the ground-breaking 2012 documentary Rising From Ashes - about our creation and development of “Team Rwanda Cycling” with the amazing @AD_Niyonshuti87 OLY right at the centre of it all - was incredible. Everyone we know who watches it tells us they cry, laugh, cry more, and laugh some more. All declare it the best documentary they have ever seen. 👏👏 #AfricaRising #AfricaCycling

The next episode of the new Africa Rising Cycling podcast is out! This episode we talk to @RossBurrage - the co-founder of Ugandan based Masaka Cycling Club Foundation 🧡🇺🇬 MCC were one of the early adopters of online training and racing, and their distinctive orange team kit can be seen in @GoZwift races regularly! Zwift have even featured them at their internal company away days as an example of awesome Zwift-ness 👍👍 Link to @Spotify below, also available on @amazonmusic @ApplePodcasts and @pocketcasts 🎙️🌍🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5j1rEV…

@CyclingAfrica @MeraKudus @AmanAwet93627 Thanks for sharing TAR….and thanks for always taking care of rider interests.

OK that’s it, bags packed and we leave Kenya after a week of African Continental Cycling Champs action! Our last news-wire has been published: 🇪🇷🇪🇷 Eritrea’s @MeraKudus & @AmanAwet93627 finish hand in hand to to take the two top Men’s RE jerseys ❤️ 🇿🇦 South Africa fly home with the most new African Champ jerseys 👏👏 ⚙️🛠️ A shout out to the very hard working mechanics and staff 📑✍️ We should see a flurry of team announcements over the coming days with several African men and women hopefully getting their first contracts with top teams! 🍼💦 A shout-out to @precisionfandh for their excellent electrolytes, gels and fuel. Made a huge difference. Thanks all to The Pedal Club (UK) for a recent donation which funded even more! 👏👏 #AfricaChamps #AfricaRising #Africa teamafricarising.org/africachamps_2…

@Cyclingnewsfeed Love it……great work being done by @GoZwift and Africa Rising. Thanks for sharing Cyclingnews 🙏🏽

'Democratization of the sport on the African continent' – Expanding online training to provide opportunities for 1,000 rising cyclists cyclingnews.com/news/democrati…

@CyclingAfrica @EscapeCycling @GoZwift @wahoofitness Thank you TAR. You always have our backs

A brilliant piece about our good friends at Masaka Cycling Club 🇺🇬 in Uganda by the great @EscapeCycling team! One of the early adopters of @GoZwift & @wahoofitness - MCC is developing several young stars for the future 🙏 #AfricaZwifting #AfricaRising escapecollective.com/from-just-surv…

@CyclingAfrica @UCI_cycling @WCC_cycling Thank you Team Africa Rising. Can't wait for you to meet Miria. She is a rippa.

2024 was an incredible year for Miria Nantume of Masaka Cycling Club in #uganda 🇺🇬 It started with attending the @UCI_cycling @WCC_cycling facility in Paarl South Africa, which really changed her mindset, and then she went racing! Hear her story here: youtube.com/watch?v=fUxQMX…

@magic8runner @nedboulting @CyclingAfrica She does get a small scholarship from the club and all her race expenses paid…..plus she received grant support from The Cyclists’ Alliance/STRAVA program this year which has been wonderful

Brilliant little movie (3’30”) about the rising star of Ugandan cycling - Florence Nakaggwa of the Masaka Cycling Club - who has secured her country’s first female pro contract with the fantastic @WMNcycling Generation team, but several months later still does not have a visa to race in Europe?! This is still the NUMBER ONE issue for African cyclists and we have to get it fixed! Even the mighty @GrmayeBiniam has had to deal with this issue all through his career to date. In the recently released movie ‘This Is My Moment’ of his career so far, there is a scene where a coach or advisor tells a young Biniam, on the news a pro team are interested: “Tell them they have to help you with your visa” is repeated 2-3 times. We suspect riders like Tom Pidcock, Tadej Pogacar and others have never had this chat… How do we change this once and for all? A ‘Sports & Entertainment’ visa is an idea no? @UCI_cycling @EU_Commission @Olympics @RefugeesOlympic Ideas?? youtu.be/5iyXEx7HkA4?si…

@nedboulting @CyclingAfrica Go Flo…..so many barriers. Keep fighting little champ.

#AtTheWorlds At 13:55 today, the first rider in the Women’s Elite Individual Time Trial sets off down the ramp! This is a 36.2km route with the steep cobbled climb finish into Stirling Castle 12 African riders from 11 countries are taking part from #Algeria #BurkinaFaso #Ethiopia #Kenya #Mauritius #Nigeria #SouthAfrica #Rwanda #Uganda and #Zimbabwe 🇩🇿🇧🇫🇪🇹🇰🇪🇲🇺🇳🇬🇿🇦🇷🇼🇺🇬🇿🇼 Our good friends at @WMNcycling have six riders in the race, with Nesrine Houili 🇩🇿 and Diane Ingabire 🇷🇼 on their development team from Africa - we love this team’s commitment to supporting the rising stars of the continent 👍👍 #GlasgowScotland2023 #AfricaRising

@cyclingweekly Proud of you Richard 🧡🙏🏾

'I just kept on fighting until they burned me out in the legs' - Ugandan cycling’s great hope on his World Championships debut trib.al/VC4OFZI

#AtTheWorlds The incredible team from Uganda-based Masaka Cycling Club 🇺🇬 are working hard to get their rising star Florence Nakaggwa ready for her first ever #ITT at @CyclingWorlds this week! At only 18, 149cm, 51kg and able to already sustain a 20 minute 5.2 w/kg, she is a real talent to be watched! She trains regularly on a @wahoofitness connected to our friends at @GoZwift back in the Masaka Cycling Cycling clubhouse in Southern Uganda 👍 #GlasgowScotland2023 #AfricaRising

Ça fait donc plaisir de voir de beaux projets comme l'équipe Masaka Cycling Team créée par @RossBurrage et soutenue par @CyclingAfrica, avec une famille cycliste qui rappelle la famille Debesay en Érythrée. 👉 article de Kimberly Coats de l'ARCC : teamafricarising.org/a-family-of-cy…

New Podcast episode is LIVE 🎧🎤 on our website and all your favourite podcast platforms!! ✌ | @jordanaddison was joined by the one of a kind @rossburrage of the thehiddenathletepodcast (well worth a listen - keep an… instagram.com/p/B-7e4uMHxUf/…