A Girls' Cycling Compendium

This blog started back in the day before anyone knew about content marketing (but hey, you're welcome everyone that learned from us....)
This was dreamt up as a place where a random collection of female riders wrote about what they did so that anyone wanted to get into the sport could see that it really was as easy as just riding your bike. Now we are in a place where a brand has only...

And in other statements of the blindingly obvious...the pope is catholic, etc.
Seriously, though, I had forgotten just how hard it is to stay upright on rollers. I always used to train on rollers but over the last five years I'd been using my husband's turbo in the hall as it was easier just to switch the seatpost on that than...

Hurrah for term time! I finally had a child free morning... but first I had a few obstacles to overcome
1) exhaustion. Thanks baby for waking us up 4 times last night. Fortunately : coffee. Parental cliché no1.
2) tantrums. Once baby despatched to nursery, 3 yr old was NOT impressed that after cycling to preschool I was going cycling without her and VERY VERY CROSS that I have cycling shoes and she does not. I had to tell her the story about Jens Voigt and...

I used to be a super keen sportive cyclist - over 150 miles a week, sportives most weekends in the summer, the odd European sportive and lots and lots of laps of Richmond laps.
And then I had my children and it's all, somewhat predictably, changed. Some evening turbo sessions (not many, dodgy knees), some daytime rides (not many, childcare limitations) BUT at last I can see my cycling future emerging from the fog of the early...