A Girls' Cycling Compendium

My new bike turned up today, a few weeks earlier than expected. So my plan to take it easy today went out the window as the boys took ...

That's what Chris told me last weekend. But I can't not panic. Anyone who knows me will know that I'm a panicker and a worrier. ...

I've kept this one pretty quite this year to avoid my nerves getting the better of me, but it's now too close to keep quiet much ...

  Last weekend I discovered that the ribs I'd broken when racing in Chamonix weren't quite ready for mountain biking. However, th...

As previously mentioned , I'm up the duff. And at now 5 months preg, our long-planned holiday of cycling up Cols in the Alps & Pyren...

Last weekend Chris and I headed over to Chamonix to visit Dan and Jo. The plan was to ride Dan's new local trails and get some su...

Summer or no summer it seems that in ‘magazine land’ the sun always shines as the latest issues try to seduce us with stories of epic road...

The last month has been a pretty busy on with lots of new adventures. In early May I went out to Spain for a week of riding with Ciclo Mon...

I t’s a place that we go and ride often.  The hilltops are clad with a brush of heather and the combes that connect to the valley bottom c...

My cycling year got off to a slow start after a Christmas skiing accident left me on crutches with a torn thigh muscle. Rats. I gradually wo...

There's u sually one definitive ride early on each year that marks the end of winter and reminds me of the promise of the coming months ...

I have always had an affinity for hills.  It doesn’t have to be mountains – although a decent, properly craggy top will always gra...

I rode! , a photo by jumbly on Flickr. I've been more ill than not so far this year. It has seriously hindered bike riding, running and...

Minx met Ruth because she lived 'just down the road' so it was an excuse for hand-delivered orders and gradually longer bike-chat...

After an eventful Christmas ski trip, culminating in a short flight in a helicopter to hospital and some frantic attempts to remember long-...

Last Saturday morning 11 hardy souls gathered to celebrate a friend's birthday at the Gin Pit...no, not some dodgy illegal drinking den,...

Yesterday afternoon I went back to the scene of the crime and it's fair to say, it was more of a challenge than I expected. I know I...

Regular readers will remember the guest post from Lesley back in August, and her start back to cycling fitness after a diagnosis of (and s...

I've now had almost three months off the bike following my ungracious crash back in October - I did sneak a few rides in early on, but g...

I saw a tweet from a random girl I'd never met about a ladies' ride she was organising, open to all, described as "easy paced...