That sounds like a crazy idea. I'm in!!
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... Continue Reading →
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
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
In the weeks running up to my leg of Lap of my Mind (http://www.lapofmymind.co.uk), it was becoming apparent that both the support on and the riding of the roads in the far north of Scotland were going to be too treacherous to justify risking anyone’s safety. Despite dearly wanting to ride the NC500 route, and... Continue Reading →
Water is streaming down my forehead, carrying the remains of yesterday morning’s moisturiser into my eyes with stinging accuracy. There’s little point in wiping it away as the forecast said suck it up Dorothy, ‘cause it ain’t stopping any time soon. I blink. The course is quieter now; those night time laps and the less... Continue Reading →
I was recently asked to write about my Mason Bokeh and the adaptations I've made to it for the Silk Road Mountain Race. Here's what I said: https://masoncycles.cc/blog/womendurance-naomi-me-and-my-bokeh
What do you do when your mate is feeling a bit blue that the ski season is over? Some other mental shit is what. Mike Austin, one half of Avalanche Geeks, is kind of a big deal in Avalanche training and Ski Mountaineering circles. Or so he likes to tell me. He’s been known to... Continue Reading →
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