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#Cycle Fit Challenge – Heart Rate Zones
As I (very) recently decided to dedicate a month to cycling with a purpose, I’ve had to do some fast learning when it comes to the techier side of working out. In the past, the way I would try to get...
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#GetCycleFit – The Beginning
Good morning! If you’ve not swung by this blog before, firstly ‘hello!’ Secondly, you might like to take a look at my previous posts about my month long #cyclefitchallange with James from High Rise...
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Review: Sweaty Betty Zoom Tri Top and Shorts
UK sports and fitness outfitters Sweaty Betty produce really rather lovely workout clothing (despite the somewhat unfortunate name) and seeing as I’m far more interested in dressing up for activities...
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#CycleFitChallenge – Zone 5 Torture and a race
As I only began my challenge last week I was looking forward to receiving my weekly training plan from James on Sunday evening to see what cycling I’d be doing over the next seven days. I was really...
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#CycleFitChallenge – The Second Week
I’m now in my second full week of Cycle Fit Challenge aka my last ditch effort to get a bit faster and stronger ahead of the Red Hook Crit in London. Somewhat surprisingly, I’ve actually been enjoying...
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Review: Saris Gran Fondo bike rack
As I’ve mentioned before in this blog, when it comes to researching bicycle related products I’m nothing short of thorough and being one of those irritating people who can’t make up their mind without...
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#CycleFitChallenge – It Never Gets Easier
‘It never gets easier, you just get a faster,’ A cycling cliche, yes, but a belief I’ve been clinging to with both hands since beginning this challenge a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been finding it...
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#GetCycleFit – Intervals, Eroica Britannia and Hill Sprints
Day#16 The day after Mid Devon CC’s ten mile hilly time trial, it was back to the velopark for another interval session, this time on my new Charge track bike which I was dying to ride! I’ve not been...
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#GetCycleFit moves to the Peak District
Hello pals, and sorry for the big delay in posting anything about my last minute training for Red Hook Crit in London, aka #GetCycleFit or #CycleFitChallenge – I seem to keep flitting between the two...
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#GetCycleFit A Visit To Manchester Velodrome
When I began #CycleFitChallenge a month ago, I had little idea what to expect from a coach on the end of the phone, and even littler idea whether I’d want to stick to the training I’d been prescribed...
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Racing Red Hook Crit London
I’m curious by nature and that makes for an interesting life. Sometimes things go wrong, in fact they often do, but it never puts me off trying. The past year has been pretty tough, filled with...
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Training Tips For Beginners
If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that one of the few things I hadn’t tried on a bike was training. Until now! Over the last month I threw myself into a training challenge #GetCycleFit to...
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Why Do I Have To Race Men Or Not Race At All?
A couple of weeks ago I took place in the Red Hook Crit in London, a closed circuit track bike race with a pretty fearsome reputation and very high standard. I was one of nearly 70 women who entered,...
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Whizzing around the Tour de France with Ibis
I know it’s deeply uncool to say this on a cycling blog but I never used to be that into the Tour de France. Back before my roadie conversion, my mum and I used to snigger a little at the skinny riders...
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Is My Battle With Training Won?
Several months ago I wrote a piece for the Brooks website about my battle with training. It was a kind of jokey piece, basically saying that I didn’t much like having to ride my bike in a certain way...
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My First Track Race
One of my previous posts about the hurdles facing female cyclists was sparked by my own personal experiences down here in my neck of the woods. I’ve heard some feedback from women with thriving scenes...
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Charge Bikes 27 Plus With Canopy and Stars
To celebrate a new partnership between awesome British bike brand Charge and purveyors of very fine alternative accommodation Canopy and Stars, the husband and I were dispatched to Dartmoor with a...
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Fred Perry My Patch Ride Out London
I recently hooked up with the lovely guys at Fred Perry in London to organise a fun, social ride to celebrate the release of their super nice cycling cities patch collection. Designed by local...
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Track Racing Take 2 and a million other things!
The last week has been really fun and packed full of all kinds of riding, racing and travelling. To kick things off, last Tuesday I returned to Newport Velodrome for my second attempt at racing their...
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Video: My Re-Energised Weekend At Bike Park Wales With The Peugeot 208
Sometimes life throws up unexpected opportunities, and I’m all for seizing them with both hands, so when Peugeot asked me if I fancied a weekend away in Wales driving the new 208 to one of my...
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