Bikes, Racing and Life

You know that feeling when you enter an event and don’t realise how hard it’s going to be? Yup, me too. At 110km and an official ascent of 2,900m it would be easy not to [...]

Somewhere I’ve wanted to visit for a while now has been Girona in Spain, north of Barcelona. It’s home to more than 180 pro cyclists and has an interesting mix of climbs, quiet lanes and [...]

2017 has been jam packed already! One of the first big events was the Tour of Ayrshire, a UCI Gran Fondo World Championship qualifier. So we packed the car and headed to the M6 North. [...]

So one of my big goals for 2017 was to have a go at road racing, and I finally took the plunge! I picked my race carefully and there was a local 3/4 women’s only [...]

As Easter rolled around it was time for our annual training camp, we’ve done Mallorca and Calpe in the past. So time for somewhere new – and Gran Canaria got the thumbs up from everyone. [...]

Normally, Christmas in my family is ALWAYS skiing, for as long as I can remember. But the last few years, the weather hasn't been in our favour and there's been no snow! So this Christmas [...]

For my 30th birthday, my brilliant husband treated me to a cyclocross bike. I've been wanting a go at this for quite a long time, but has such a high entry cost (an entire new [...]

It's taken a while to get my thoughts together of the past few months, so much has changed in my life and in some respects RideLondon got lost along the way. But it was a [...]

The alarm went off early, it was still dark out, but I could hear cars on the road outside and it sounded wet, not a great start, but not a surprise either. After forcing some [...]

After what can only be described as a very busy May, with the Mallorca 312 and the Etape du Dales, I was exhausted but wanted to crack on with preparing for the next big event [...]

Along time ago, pretty much another life now, I live near York and kept my horse in the Howardian Hills, I really loved it round there, but didn't think much about it after I left. [...]

You may have heard some stories about the Etape du Dales in 2015, and thought that the teller was exaggerating about wind, I can tell you, they weren't! Tan Hill nearly broke me as a [...]