The Breakdown High-season bike time is in full effect right now, not to mention the post-COVID itch to get the heck outside. This has cycling newcomers and veterans alike ready to bike the distance. Some folks, having hibernated from pedaling through the winter, are rusty on their bike repair skills. Newbs may not have acquired…
Category: Females & Cycling
650-B: A Bikepacking Race
On Thursday, June 19th, my friend, “Yaboi” Greg, and I embarked on an endurance bikepacking race, the 650-B. It goes from the most northwestern point of Minnesota (Pembina, ND – pronounced Pem-bin-ah, not Pem-bean-ah like yours truly walked around saying until corrected) to the most southeastern point (New Albin, IA). The mission? You choose the…
Learn from a Seasoned Arrowhead 135 Racer: An Interview with Sveta Vold
An interview with Sveta Vold a seasoned Arrowhead 135 endurance cyclist for Grit and Gear. Update: Sveta took 1st unsupported female and 2nd female overall this year. Congrats Sveta! All photos in post provided by Sveta Vold.
How To Be An Ally To Solo Women Adventurers
A post written for Grit & Gear. Click on image to be directed to article.
A Cure For My Cycling Ills
As I sit in bed, a bag of frozen peas between my legs, I contemplate how I arrived at this circumstance – perhaps later than I should have. A week ago, I had a labiaplasty. Over several years, I developed vulvodynia (irritation of the vulva) caused by labia hypertrophy (enlarged labia, usually asymmetrically). After a…
Zwift delivers where the UCI and ASO haven’t – equality now
Zwift, the turbo trainer game where cyclists use their bike to compete with others in a virtual environment, announced in Cycling Weekly that the UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale – the governing body for sports cycling and international cycling events) will partner with Zwift in the first-ever E-Sports World Championships in 2020. It’s an inaugural event…