Beira interview

I was really thrilled to be selected as one of Beira’s Inspirational women in a blog series. Have a read here: https://beira.scot/blogs/story-doing/inspirational-women-series-2-naomi-freireich

Friends of FINDRA

I was really touched to be asked to write a blog for FINDRA about the outdoors and what it means to me. You can read about it here: https://findraclothing.com/naomi-freireich/

British Backcountry opening workshop

Thanks to Neil Macgrain for this article on the photography workshop I ‘modelled’ for. https://www.neilmacgrain.com/latestimages/british-backcountry-opener

Bikepacking.com Blog

Thanks to Bikepacking.com for publishing a blog I wrote about An Turas Mór. You can read it here: https://bikepacking.com/plog/an-turas-mor-scotland/

World Mental Health Day

During World Mental Health Awareness Week this year I posted a series of tips on my Instagram account on how I try to deal with my own mental health. I've rewritten them all here. Mental Health issues are still hard to discuss openly but it shouldn't be that way. If you're struggling please don't harm...

An Turas Mór – Wiggle blog

Hop over to Wiggle’s blog to read the story of my ride along An Turas Mór here: https://blog.wiggle.co.uk/turas-mór-long-journey

How to keep training during lockdown

Create a small, local loop In the UK we are fortunate to be allowed one form of outdoors exercise a day. Other countries seem less strict while places like France have curtailed your exercise to within 1km from your home. Whatever your restrictions, there are imaginative things that you can still do. 1. Climb a...

Lessons you can learn from endurance racing for Covid19

For those of you who don’t follow me, I’m best known for my 24 hour racing. Training rides for me vary from an hour to 6 hours of riding in any given day, 5-6 days a week, with strength work and stretching on top of this. I thought that having to curtail my riding and...

24 hours in the life of a 24 hour MTBer (UK National Championships 2019)

There’s always a nervous anticipation at the start of a race. And this year for me there was more than most. A missed race here, a bad start there and here I am at the start of my 4th UK 24 hour Championship race since my first attempt back in 2015 and feeling apprehensive. That...

Pressure to Perform

I was struck dumb today by the tragic loss to the triathlon community of Chris Stirling. I’m certain many more eloquent things will be written about him by people who knew him better than I did, but to me he was always a kind and generous person, for whom taking time to talk about your...