Velocio ONE jacket review: The jacket that wants to be your one and only Is this the one jacket to rule them all? We test Velocio's latest attempt at seasonal mastery

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Your body is the site of rebellion and resistance; your activism is your bike ride An International Women's Day meditation on why your own body is the site of activism

In celebration of IWD 2025, I’ve written a little bit about why women’s movement matters. open.substack.com/pub/immycycl...

Word and movement: Running the red line in Dreamtime Fellrunner How a one-woman performance on fell running has given me words I've been looking for.

❝How can we possibly have this impossible body, that can move and reflect and conjure language and words and build connections and see a spectrum of colour and light and for that experience to not be art?
— @immycycles.bsky.social
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Graphic reads: The Children's Walking and Cycling Index 2024. 81% of children want more traffic free paths. 78% support cycle paths separated from cars. Halfords. Sustrans.

Today sees the release of the Children’s Walking and Cycling Index report - the first of it’s kind - sponsored by Halfords

Children are often overlooked by decision-makers and officers in transport, or if they are considered, it's on the school journey.

The voices of women's cycling: hearing all about labial tears and vulval sores. A long read sharing in-depth research on women's saddle pain and discomfort in cycling. Settle in, it's a deep dive.

I thought I’d spend some time digging into the women’s voices who contributed to my article on cycling news last week in my latest Substack, sharing more about the pain women experience when riding bikes. open.substack.com/pub/immycycl...

I’ve been dying to do this one but just haven’t quite plucked up the courage yet! Good to see these women smashing it!

Travellers’ tales: a Traws Eryri cycling adventure For 2024’s yearly off-road trip, Cycling UK member Karen Townsin and three friends took their bikes for a tour along Cycling UK’s long-distance route through Wales’s Snowdonia National Park

🌄 Have you tackled Traws Eryri? Cycling UK member Karen & friends (combined age 240) took on the 200km off-road challenge through Snowdonia—their toughest adventure yet! Was it worth it? Absolutely. Could it be one of our best long-distance adventures? You decide: cyclinguk.org/traws-eryri-adventure

Cycling's most sensitive issue - Why saddle discomfort is one of the most pressing, and silent, barriers to entry for female cyclists 'Even amongst my fevered googlings late at night, I hadn’t come across anything that had explained the types of pain I might be facing'

One of my proudest bits of writing to date. Women are suffering on bikes and often silently. This was a huge bit of research to pull together - there’s still so much more to say, so much more to look into, but I’m glad to be writing about it.
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‘…the less said about it the better’: the wisdom of shutting up about adventures and why I am still thinking about it. Inconclusive ramblings asking why we need to talk about our adventures.

Writing this time on following Joss Naylor’s advice of ‘the less said about it the better’ when talking about adventures and achievements. Little meandering thoughts on something we rarely discuss in the outdoors world.

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Keep seeing adverts for companies saying they are trying to ‘empower women’ to take up sport, with the implication that if I buy that product, I’ll be empowered. Can I be empowered without the purchase of yet another item? Is that possible?

I wrote this Substack about my thoughts working on the Spine Race over the past couple of years. A joyful experience, but still with a number of questions I have to ask myself about the nature of ultra running.

17th century adventure with Celia Fiennes Introducing you to the writings of a woman you might not have heard of

More historical writing over on my Substack, which i am really enjoying at the moment. This time it’s on Celia Fiennes and her travels through 17th century Britain open.substack.com/pub/immycycl...

‘Facts are becoming too politically biased’ - Mark Zuckerberg, 2025.

Jesus. Christ.

Drones.

Government drones above my barn:

How long will the radical left liberals cover this up? They keep calling it “the big dipper” but I know it’s just drones.

Eva's Tour A side quest into the British history of women's cycling - sort of.

Back in 2020 I did some lovely deep diving of the archives to learn more about women & cycling in the 19th century. Part of this was to recreate a route I’d found in the Lady Cyclist published in 1896. I never quite finished that project but the research is on my free Substack 👇
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Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

Today I learnt that the little green vegetable we eat in winter is called the ‘Brussels Sprout’ and not the ‘Brussel sprout’ and I feel like my whole life has been a lie.

Writers condemn startup’s plans to publish 8,000 books next year using AI Publisher Spines will charge authors between $1,200 and $5,000 to have their books edited and distributed with the help of artificial intelligence

'“We would warn authors to think extremely carefully before committing to any author-contribute contract” involving a writer paying for their work to be published, said Anna Ganley, chief executive of the UK’s largest trade union for writers, illustrators and translators, the Society of Authors.'

Always pleased to see the work Cycling UK is doing to uphold cycling infrastructure and implementation. Wales has a good track record in cycling and deffo keen to see more work done there! Hopefully encourage border towns like mine to integrate better!

An evening in the gym, focussing on trying to build strength in the hope that this eventually sorts my 10 year battle with recurring running injuries. I’ve spent this year with a physio, and now it’s about trying to focus on all the changes we’ve made. Maybe by summer I’ll nab a cheeky race place?

Cool to try out a bit of astral photography this evening! Still a bit cloudy, but you can make out Pilades (bright cluster bottom left) and the Andromeda Galaxy (top right, bright fuzzy disc shape). Absolutely insane that it’s able to be captured on a phone!

Profoundly moving. Adele Roberts on her book Personal Best, brilliantly interviewed by @immycycles.bsky.social Pragmatic, funny, brave, raising awareness of bowel cancer, living with stoma Audrey, breaking records at London Marathon. Magic to hear audience members able to share their stoma journey.

I didn’t get to see this one but absolutely wish I had!!

Deeply moved by @martinhibbert.bsky.social's Top of the World. Having survived the Manchester Arena bombing, now in a wheelchair, he's become a powerful advocate for survivors & raised £1 million for spinal injury charities by summiting Kilimanjaro. Open, witty, generous. A brilliant tour de force

It’s been a fair few weeks since I’ve managed a pre work pootle on the bike, and I’m itching a bit for it now. Cold. Quiet roads. Soft pedalling.

Wrapping up Kendal Mountain Festival - this year has been my biggest yet with 4 presenting jobs. I’ll be honest, I didn’t know how I’d cope after a busy year, but it was incredible as always. I am so lucky to get to ask questions of incredible people and get paid to do it!

A brightly coloured stage with prayer flags and wooden pallets and three interviewees

Day 2 of Kendal Mountain Festival was mostly spent catching up with pals, but did manage to cop a sneaky watch of the incredible Rachel Crewe Smith interviewing filmmaker Rox Barry on their film ‘Capsized’ all about Emily’s (on the right!) trip in a canoe, discussing bigger bodies in the outdoors

Sarah Smout in a green dress and long blonde hair on stage playing her red cellp Bernard. The stage is lit softly with blue, purple and a warm yellow light.

Then in the evening I met a friend and went to listen to Sarah Smout’s cello and poetry session. It was a gorgeous set. Sarah is an environmental activist and filters her advocacy through her music, which is deep and thoughtful and ethereal.

Day 1 of Kendal Mountain Festival & I presented Adele Roberts’ Personal Best. We had a great chat about cancer, stomas, running, marathon records & a moving Q&A from the audience who shared their own experiences of ileostomy & cancer. Genuinely one of my favourite interviewing experiences at Kendal.

Hoping the algorithm will bring me women who love cycling, running, climbing and being outdoors. I want to see your thoughts and adventures!