The Let’s Ride Blog

Updates, ideas and inspiration from the team at British Cycling

Everyday heroes, and why we need them

Becki Morris
19/06/2017

Becki Morris, British Cycling’s Women’s Project Manager shares the importance of everyday role models and why we need them now, more than ever.

Nina’s guide to hill climbing

Nina Jensen
12/06/2017

In the fourth part of our sportives series, Nina Jensen shares her top tips for tackling the climbs of the Haydon Hundred.

Helena’s 70 mile sportive

Helena Bowman
06/06/2017

In the third part of our sportives series, we caught up with Helena Bowman as she tackled the Belles of Belvoir 70 miler.

Susan’s top sportive tips

Susan Dowling
19/05/2017

After taking on her first sportive at 55, Susan caught the bug rode the Mersea May event. Here are her top tips.

Help us celebrate 25 years of the pink ribbon

Becki Morris
03/05/2017

We’re delighted to be working with Breast Cancer Care to celebrate 25 years of the famous Pink Ribbon.

Liz’s 60km sportive training plan

Liz Evans
21/04/2017

Breeze Champion Liz Evans takes on the Hemel Hillbuster sportive on Sunday. This week we caught up with Liz to find out more about her training.

Sofa to sportive with HSBC UK Breeze and Welsh Cycling

Rebecca Morgan-Ransom
19/04/2017

Welsh Cycling's Rebecca Morgan-Ransom introduces us to the women undertaking a six month training plan to take on the country’s largest closed-road cycling sportive.

This Girl Can cycle: Grace joins a Breeze ride

Samantha Neville
06/04/2017

Two years ago Grace became an inspiration to women as one of the faces of This Girl Can. Watch what happened when we asked Grace to join us on a Breeze bike ride...

How Mum inspired me to become a Breeze Champion

Hattie Turner
21/03/2017

In celebration of Mother’s Day we spoke to Hattie, who was inspired to train as a Breeze Champion by her mum Jools.

Still lapping everyone on the couch

Becki Morris
23/02/2017

With the new This Girl Can TV ad about to air, British Cycling’s Women’s Cycling Project Manager looks back on the success of the initiative so far – and where it can go from here.

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