Riding With the Girls

Recently I have started riding with a number of women’s groups, both mountain biking and road.

Rebecca Spiers has been leading the MTB Chicks rides. They have been great fun. There is a great group of women who are very friendly and supportive. I have now been on three rides with the group, one at Battle Hill, the Kapiti Klassic course, and Belmont. All of these rides have been hard but very enjoyable and I highly recommend this group to women who want a fun social mtb ride - check it out at http://www.mtbchicks.org/index.htm.



On Saturday mornings I usually go down to On Yer Bike at 8am to do a relaxed road ride run by Ashleigh and Marjolein. This is a fun ride that usually goes around the bays. Most days there are a few women who want to go at a different speed so this ride caters for all.

The other women’s ride I have been doing is on Monday evenings at 5:30. We meet outside Freiberg Pool and ride around the bays all the way up Happy Valley Road to Brooklyn. Run by Lisa Morgan, this ride is a bit faster than the Saturday morning rides, but still just as fun.

Riding with women has been a great way of getting confident riding in a bunch. It is also good for me to be doing a 50km road ride on a regular basis (By the time I have ridden to the Monday ride and back home to Karori it’s about 50km.