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Women Who Cycle – A blog and resource for women who love cycling

Category: Heart health

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5 reasons why you should start road riding again

October 6, 2023 Nicola Comments Off on 5 reasons why you should start road riding again

I completely understand that it’s really easy to lose your cycling mojo and much harder to get it back, but I’m here to plead to

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great article about ebikes
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Debunking the ebike nay-sayers…unscientifically!

March 9, 2023 Nicola 3

This week I’ve got a treat for you with a great article about ebikes from my good mate Tina McCarthy. I love how Tina demolishes

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cycling is a great anti-ageing strategy
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Cycling is a great anti-ageing strategy

November 25, 2022 Nicola Comments Off on Cycling is a great anti-ageing strategy

Five years ago I wrote about an amazing Frenchman named Robert Marchand who showed emphatically that cycling is a great anti-ageing strategy. At the time

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Women’s Health Week
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Let’s focus on cardiovascular health for Women’s Health Week

September 10, 2021 Nicola Comments Off on Let’s focus on cardiovascular health for Women’s Health Week

This week is ‘Women’s Health Week’, a national week championed by Jean Hailes for Women’s Health, a fantastic organisation that actively works in public health,

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role of exercise in living a long healthy life
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Great news – the role of exercise in living a long healthy life is fundamental

September 3, 2021 Nicola Comments Off on Great news – the role of exercise in living a long healthy life is fundamental

If there’s one thing I love to read about it’s the role of exercise in living a long healthy life. So a story in this

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my bike became my best friend
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When my bike became my best friend

July 1, 2021 Nicola Comments Off on When my bike became my best friend

One of the wonderful side benefits of writing this blog is that women from all around the world contact me to share their stories like

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cycling as a weight loss plan
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Cycling as a weight loss plan? – just eat less

October 30, 2020 Nicola Comments Off on Cycling as a weight loss plan? – just eat less

It really bugs me that so many gyms and others promote cycling as a weight loss plan, and indeed all forms of exercise as a

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cycling as an anti-ageing strategy
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Lazarus sees cycling as an anti-ageing strategy

August 27, 2020 Nicola 1

My regular readers will know that I’m a huge fan of exercise, and specifically cycling as an anti-ageing strategy. So I was excited to read

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every woman should take up road cycling
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Here are 12 compelling reasons every woman should take up road cycling

May 15, 2020 Nicola 2

Following on from my blog post a couple of weeks ago challenging women to take up road cycling, here are my 12 very compelling reasons

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cycling does get easier
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Cycling does get easier. Greg Lemond was wrong

October 24, 2019 Nicola Comments Off on Cycling does get easier. Greg Lemond was wrong

US cyclist Greg LeMond famously said, “It never gets easier; you just go faster” but I’d like to challenge that assertion, because in my opinion,

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