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USN Vooma Gels
The day started early, leaving the house at 7.00 to drive down to the New Forest to take part in our first Sportive. I had convinced Martyn we should do it together and that we wouldn't race it but just enjoy it, I wasn't until we arrived that it became apparent...
#MyLocalSpot: Crooksbury Hill and Heathland
Crooksbury Conservation Area is located in the peaceful, picturesque Surrey Hills just outside Farnham. It is an expanse of wood and heathland with Crooksbury Hill being a prominent feature on the landscape. It rises steeply to the south from 110m to 162m above sea...
Layer up and do it with friends – Winter Training Tips
Winter is officially upon us! The days have become shorter engulfing evening rides in darkness and frozen noses as we roll out onto yet another frozen single track or road. Personally, I love winter rides there is nothing better than the feeling of warmth that comes...
Giant Cyclotron Turbo Trainer
When Giant send things through to review its like Christmas the anticipation of ripping of the tape and opening the box to discover what delights are inside to try out. So when in October a month before my birthday a huge box big enough for me to fit in arrived at...
2013 Racing Season Round Up
In October last year, inspired by the Olympics and my first ever mountain bike race I started training and working towards my first season. I worked hard over the winter to go from fairly fit to race fit attending cyclo cross training in Southampton and putting in...
Mud Sweat and Gears Round 8, Hadleigh Olympic Course
MSG Round 6 Hadleigh The weekend started in not the most ideal situation, 5 hours on the m25 because of a serious accident, meant we arrived at Hadleigh, for what was meant to be my day of getting used to the course, with 15 minutes until it closed! Luckily I was...
Wattbike Training
The last two weeks I have been training on a Wattbike, the benefits of using a Wattbike is the pedal efficiency data you can collect. When training on a Wattbike you can see the polar view which is a graph showing you one pedal revolution, the diagram shows you the...
Mud Sweat and Gears Round Seven Langdon Hills
This is where it all began last year as a total beginner i took on Langdon Hills in the National series, a huge shock to the system as i felt i was semi decent on a bike until i sore the speed and power of the other girls and realised some serious training was needed...
Ride London 100, one of the greatest moments of my life.
The alarm went off at 4am and then promptly back onto snooze for the next hour as we stirred and tried to get every inch of rest that we could before what was about to come. At 5am we woke I made our porridge and tea with the hotel room kettle which eating it as we...
Mud, Sweat and Gears Round 5, Secret Nuclear Bunker, Essex
Today was round five of the Mud Sweat and Gears Eastern Series. I had not raced since round four which was a month ago, so I was nervous going in as I felt under pressure to get a good result in order to keep my top three national ranking position. The was however my...