This year the Bedford 3 Day celebrates its 25th birthday, reportedly making it the oldest women’s stage race in the UK. 3 Days of racing encompassing 5 stages. This year that’s: a prologue ITT of 2.73km followed by a 50.4km road race on Day 1; a team TT of 10km followed by a road race […]
Author: hannahnicklin
Recipe: Perfect Porridge
Often, when you’re in a recording studio (my weird job takes me into this situation fairly often) one of the common ways that a sound technician will get a level from you is by asking you to describe what you had for breakfast. It’s a thing most people can talk about without thinking, and the tech gets a […]
Castle Combe Easter Classic – 14th April 2017
I’m not going to do a detailed race report for every race I do, but I am going to use this blog to mark the turning points and the lessons learned as I progress. Castle Combe Easter Classic goes down as the ‘biggest bunch I’ve yet raced in’ with around 60 women on the start […]
Recipe: Roast Veg and Chickpeas
This is a great recipe for days when I’m low on activity/time. It’s vegan, though there’s nothing to stop you cracking an egg or two into the middle 5-10 mins before serving and having baked eggs in it too. Not sure how that would vibe with the lime and mint, but worth giving it a […]
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The Surprising Silence of Winning
One of the things about learning to race bikes is that (at the beginning, at least) winning stuff is actually kinda rare, definitely once you get past the novice races into strong 3/4 and e1234 fields. It’s such a combination of tactics, strength and teamwork, that if just one of those things doesn’t line up, it […]
Nine Tips For Promoting Women’s Races.
I have only been racing for around a year and a half and I am already super aware of common complaints that organisers have about poorly attended women’s races. I’m also friends with people who have been involved at a grassroots level with women’s racing for years now (looking at you, Huw). And a large part […]
Seven Great Things They Don’t Tell You About Bike Racing.
This bit of text was originally written in 2016 for London Women’s Racing before I was a committee member, with the aim of encouraging other first-timers into the league. While there are a host of great articles giving you advice on the technique and skills sides of things, and often training events and sessions with clubs where […]