Welcome to Peloton&Tales!
I’m Anita Pethő, 41 year old Hungarian born literary historian and critic, journalist, blogger. I started to write on road cycling in 2009 on my Hungarian blog TOURázzunk együtt. It was a sudden idea (after following the races for more than a decade on television), which evolved into something bigger very soon.
In 2017 I published my first book “Változások kora” [Time of Changes]. This is a long-term project, I intend to update the content of the book every 4-5 years, because, well, there are always a lot of changes in the world of international professional road cycling. There is a huge possibility, that the next edition(s) of the book will be published also in English.
99% of my publications (not only the cycling stuff, but also all my book reviews, essays, interviews, reports from different cultural events, etc,) are currently available only in Hungarian. I myself started to publish blogposts in English only in 2019. And of course, there is still a long road of improving to reach the level of writing I own in my mother language.
The Peloton&Tales project was born in February 2020. Based on the literally translation of my Hungarian project “Peloton-mesék”, I intend to focus on the storytelling possibilities of road cycling races. I know, it sounds a bit too serious and theoretical, but in my entire life I was working with stories (mostly reading, watching and analysing, but sometimes also writing), so, it seems evident, that this is the part, I am fascinated with.
From the point of view of a blog reader, of course, it’s just a collection of old and not so old real stories from the history of road cycling.
My original intention was also writing about the latest cycling events, but unfortunately, the year 2020 was a mess in many ways. I hope, that during this season I’m going to able to write more articles on the current cycling races from my unique point of view.