Archives of La Ride

Remember how we organised ‘La Ride’ last year? Well, the 2018 edition will be slightly different. The title of this blog reveals it already a tiny bit. Does it ring a bell? La Ride des Belles Filles will be an even bigger challenge and hopefully your new cycling goal. Train for La Ride, a word […]

La Ridley retreat Over the weekend of September 15-17, a group of six women joined me for a weekend retreat in Warburton, Victoria. You can read all about it here: http://www.laridley.com/uncategorized/inaugural-la-ridley-retreat-exploring-yarra-valley/   Interview Over the weekend, I asked each of the riders to answer three questions. Every person is unique. They each have their own […]

    Did you join in the fun this past September and challenge your friends to La Ride 100? Well, I did, and as a result I had a wonderful group of old and new faces join me for a lap around the beautiful Gold Coast hinterland. This September, La Ridley encouraged women across the […]

We arrived in the month September which means you should be ready to finish off the 1ookm of La Ride. At least the women who started preparing at the same time as the training schedules were posted. For all the ladies who plan to do their La Ride later in the month, underneath you can […]

As La Ride is coming very close now, it is time for the finishing touch! That means that we put some serious training volume in this week’s schedule. It will only make riding 100k’s so much easier and more fun. So keep the discipline going! Together with long training rides, saddle sores often come along. […]

Changing your breathing can improve you performance When you’re doing some high intensity training sessions, very often you get so much carried away by the lactic acid in the legs that you neglect your breathing. Even worse, you start taking shallow breaths from your chest rather than filling your belly with air. This behaviour limits the […]

ONE.HUNDRED.KILOMETRES That first triple digit ride. It’s a milestone many of us cyclists or triathletes earmark when we begin and so many remember their first vividly. I would be lying if I said I can recall my first hundred. I know that I would’ve been fourteen, it would have been in country Tasmania and I’m […]