15 Seconds
It was a typical day at the office – I was shaving my legs and bossing around the soigneurs when a call came in from a local TV station asking for “Winnipeg Cycle Chick”. I quickly snatched the phone from…
Oh Hesjedal!
If you heard a loud and unsettling noise this morning at around 11 am, it was the sound of my head exploding with joy and pride as Canadian Ryer Hesjedal time-trialled his way into cycling history. He went into today’s time…
Burning Love
If you’re the type that loves riding through mud and sand on fat, knobby tires, dodging trees, roots, rocks and such, then you might want to get your hairy-legged self to Sandilands Provincial Forest this Sunday for the second Manitoba…
Winnipeg Cycle Chick’s Healthy Homemade Hippy Bars
You may find this hard to believe, but in between cocktails I am pretty particular about the kind of food I put into this well-oiled* machine I call my body. Nutrition is an important part of training, and lately I have…
Mothers’ Day Ride
Sunday is Mothers’ Day. In celebration of the wonderful woman who brought you into this world, you should get your ass out of bed early and come ride 100km with us. After all, your mother loves you more than anything…
Seven Sisters
With so many awesome bikey things happening on Saturday, it was really hard to decide what to do. Should I get down and dirty on the gravé with the boys and girls from the FGBC and RRR? Put on my…
Cycling is for Girls
I like to think of cycling as mostly asexual. It’s the great equalizer where I can park the purse and join the androgynous spandex masses and ride until I puke. But lets face it, sometimes girls just want to be girls….
The 2012 S.O.B. Invitational Gravel Race
After a recent post about my compulsion to do things I’m told not to do, an email arrived in my inbox that simply read: “I dare you not to do my race.” It was from the S.O.B. himself, so of…
A Letter to Halfwheelers
Dear Riding Buddy It’s early in the season and we’re all excited to get outside and ride, whether we’ve spent hours in the basement on the trainer or making fun of those that do. Either way, it’s easy to forget…
The Positive Power of Negative Suggestion
There is nothing that motivates me to do something more than being told I shouldn’t do it. You might say “it’s a chick thing”, but if you did, I’d probably call you a silly twat. Gauntlets, both literal and proverbial,…