A Girls' Cycling Compendium

So yesterday lunchtime I ran home early (literally) to greet the plumber (who never showed), and then snurled up (a combination of snarling ...

A big ol' sorry to anyone that regularly posts, we had to activate the word recognition thing in the comments section because we were st...

Tonight, I have been writing. Putting together the plan for the spring and the summer, scribbling in the calendar, filling entries, doing su...

I'm talking about my fitness. This week has hurt a lot. I am trying to draf my fitness up by its hair, kicking and screaming. Last year ...

Eighteen days in and I have managed my first ride of the new year. It was a seriously athletic endeavour, the pub and back for lunch with Tr...

Fi writes: My research team at the University of the West of England are just getting going on a massive project investigating the 'bran...

I can't afford it. Nope. But... Well it's exactly the right geometry. And so pretty. After years of searching for the perfect hardta...

I was 14 miles from home, tootling along on my hard tail on the road (you won't catch me on a road bike on the ice), slow but steady aft...

This is my first blog post as a Minx team rider so a little about myself maybe and then (as I AM British) a little about the weather! I'...

My second training ride. 5hrs in sub zero temps. I wore (from the bottom up) - thick(ish) merino socks - shoes - fleece lined overshoes - sh...

For a year there has been no 'training', no real racing, no tricky choices to be made over cake or abstinence. It's been heaven....

Friday night. Leave late to miss the traffic, Radio 1, eyes on the drive. Smoothly up the M6, slingshot Glasgow, onwards up the A9, horizon ...

'Cross. Oh, how I love to hate 'cross. The pain, the brevity, warming up on lap four of six before bonking on lap five. Feet and han...

The week begins on Friday. I am knackered. After four days of being away with work I want to ride quite badly. It's raining. Or it could...

How amazing is winter riding in the High Peak? Staying with The Wife, The Husband and The Arthur for the weekend was already going to be a p...

Sometimes it's about riding hard. Elbows in, breathless, screaming muscles, making that climb, adrenaline pumping, stomach rising, no da...

On Sunday in the Lake District it rained. All night Saturday and all day Sunday. I was doing a 5hr adventure race with a friend (who recentl...

for night riding. Gotta love a slightly spooky pedal round unfamiliar trails in the dark. Especially when those trails turn into bike and ri...

The rubbishness of 2009 continues apace with this: However, before that happened I went here: ...and rode lots of stuff like this: ...with f...

Errands Originally uploaded by jumbly When cycling to the parcel office it is best not to forget a bag or the ride home will involve my jack...