Women's Fitness

WINTER WHEELING

As is the old adage ‘winter miles, summer smiles’, you can get a lot out of your cycling fitness in the colder months. But when it’s cold, frosty and dark out there, and your cosy bed holds more appeal than layering up to the hilt in Lycra, finding the motivation isn’t always easy…

As a ‘serious’ cyclist entering my sixth winter season of inclement peddling, and with no future club rides on the horizon to give me that push, I, too, could do with some inspiration. So I called on my cycling girlfriends, a hardcore bunch of ladies who have braved snow, ice, muck, grit and gales in the saddle – but have

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