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Can Swimming Make You Better At Cycling?
I never started cycling for fitness or even as a sport really. When I first began cycling as an adult it was for transport, then for fun, and finally for a job when I became a bike messenger. A...
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A summer update & Women’s Racing
I feel like my feet have barely hit the ground over the last few months. With such a busy schedule of work, travel, rides and races, it’s been hard to find enough time to notice summer, so I find...
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From Pedal To Pool – First ‘Steps’ In Swimming
I’ve now been swimming regularly for a few weeks, inspired by Speedo’s #GetSpeedoFit Campaign and the challenge they set me of adding swimming to my training. Click here to see the first part of the...
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Racing Mountain Bikes At Southern Enduro Round 3
My most recent mountain bike race involved a trip to Hampshire to camp out and race Round 3 of the Southern Enduro series. I’m not 100% convinced that sleeping in a tent with my incredibly loud,...
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A Chat With Strongher
Strongher are an international collective united by a desire to promote cycling for women, be that road, fixed gear or mountain bike, novice, pro or anywhere in between. With a diverse crew of riders...
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Episode 2 of my Speedo #Pedaltopool challenge
My exploration of the the mysterious world of swimming continues apace and it’ fair to say, I’m pretty much hooked. I have an very addictive personality and tend to have extreme reactions to things...
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What I eat for cycling – Part 2, sports nutrition
Apologies for the delay in getting this post live, I actually penned the first part of ‘What I Eat For Cycling‘ an inordinately long time ago and didn’t mean to be so slack about writing it’s follow...
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2016’s training and racing highs and lows
It’s now been a little over a year since I began racing semi seriously, or at least if not racing in an entirely serious way (I’m not in the Tour de France!), actually paying attention to how I train...
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Red Hook Crit Barcelona 2016
Red Hook Crit in Barcelona is without doubt every fixed crit racer’s event of the year Those that can tend to fly in early or extend their trip after the race because it’s so much fun hanging out at...
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Bikepacking on the Ridgeway Trail
One of my new year’s resolution back in January was to go camp out somewhere by bike. It wasn’t meant to be fancy, complicated or far away, it just had to involve bikes, a tent and beer. Despite my...
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Article 1
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, it’s been a bit of a funny year. I’ve had so much time off the bike due to injury and ill health yet I’ve also had some of the best results I’ve ever achieved and...
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Rapha Prestige West Country
One of the good things about sportives is that you get to explore a new part of the country without having to research an unfamiliar area and plot a route. You know that there’ll be plenty of food...
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Cycling Tips Podcast – Equality in Prize Money
I sometimes ponder what the people of the future will think of us and our society when they examine their history books a few hundred years hence. We can sometimes look back at some of the things our...
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WTB Padloc Grips and How To Fit Them
I’ve been using WTB products on my mountain bikes for yonks as I’ve always got on with their range of grips, tyres and rims. I’ve actually got a pair of their amazing carbon Ci31 rims upstairs waiting...
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Epic Bike Rides Of The World Book
Every autumn I like to spend some time thinking about next year, what my goals will be, my target race, which countries I’d like to visit with a bike and which rides I’d like to factor into my...
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A Bike Free September
After all the fun of August with it’s Red Hook Crit racing, swimming in the sea, larking about on beaches and having fun with friends, September turned out to be absolutely rubbish. Told in no...
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Check out: Assos’s new Women’s Tiburu S7 Tights
Last month at the Assos women’s event at Look Mum No Hands, I was given a pair of their new women’s Tiburu S7 padded cycling tights to try out. It’s always exciting to get totally new Assos stuff to...
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Shooting in London, shooting in Switzerland
After five weeks off the bike resting my dodgy back, the second week of October I was given the go ahead to get back on the bike and get on with my life. I’m still not 100% and at this point in my...
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Video: Conclusions after a summer of swimming
2016 has been a tough year. If I’m totally honest, I’ll be really glad to see this back of it and though it’s only a kind of virtual, fake, made up new start each January 1st, there are things I’d...
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Follow Contador – Polartec’s Training Camp
As an athlete, blogger and journo, I get asked on quite a few pretty sweet trips, but Polartec set a new standard with the last one. What could be better than a five day trip to train in Gran Canaria...
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