With the British cycling team preparing for next month's Track World Cup in Manchester, I was given the chance to ride at the city's Velodrome for Weekend Breakfast.
Until now my cycle racing experience has been limited to a frantic pursuit of the 17.37 from Kings Cross when I've been running late on my commute through London.
But I was in good hands at the Manchester Velodrome. Olympic gold medalist and Omnium World champion Ed Clancy was warming up for the evening's Revolution meeting by guiding me around the track.
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Ed Clancy and his Great Britain team-mates are riding a wave of success at the moment. They deserve our support as they aim to maintain their lead in the World Cup standings at the Manchester Velodrome between 18th and 20th February.
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Each week on 5 live's On The Money, Declan Curry sends me to do a Sunday shift in a business that doesn't follow a typical 9-5. This week I spent the day on a Centrica gas rig in the East Irish Sea.
Here's my report from this week's programme:
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On The Money goes out between 8 - 9pm on Sunday nights on 5 live.
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Some stories seem to defy description - events whose scale and cruelty is beyond any norms even in a 24 hour world where nowhere is far away anymore.
The earthquake in Haiti, on this day last year, was one such event. A quarter of a million people died and millions more must still wonder sometimes what kind of place they have survived in.
Every day on 5 live Breakfast this week, we're hearing from people whose normal life ground to a juddering halt when the quake hit.
The young man who got lost in his hometown because not a single landmark remained to show him where to turn.
The girl who, on her 18th birthday, found herself buried under rubble, next to her dying sister.
We'll hear from aid workers still providing daily food and basic shelter for families who have nothing, trauma counsellors helping people face new and constant anxieties. To try to get a sense of who else they turn to, we'll talk to a priest and a voodoo practitioner.
Haiti prompted one of the largest aid responses ever seen. A year on, we try to find out if help really has come to the country.
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Haiti stories on 5 live Breakfast
Monday - Stefania Musset, student, Port-au-Prince
Tuesday - Christella Monteau, trapped in rubble for 17 hours
Wednesday - Mike Thomson, British firefighter
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