Cycle and Style

Jenny Fletcher (see previous article about her here) made her a career change from model to pro-triathlete and had her first major races since turning pro in the last few weeks.  She competed in her first ITU (International Triathlon Union ) race in Mazatlan in late March, and last Sunday she mounted the podium when she came in [...]

Sandy Earl is going to take part in a race that is called the World’s Toughest Bike Race. It is 50% longer than the Tour de France and racers are expected to do it in 12 days or less, and they are not allowed to draft. This 3000 mile race is called the Race Across [...]

In the early 1980’s, a woman had few choices in the bike shops. She might have found a pink bicycle, but most manufacturers were designing women’s bicycles as if women were just smaller men. Many women kept riding the unisex bikes that were available, hoping they would just get used to the aches and pains [...]

You had a great season last year; what were some of the highlights?
“Definitely my third win at the 24 hour Solo World Championships, three in a row, which was the focus of the season. Then three weeks later, totally unexpected, the icing on the cake, was winning the Leadville Trail 100 just as an [...]

By Tara R. McKee
Jenny Fletcher spent her teenage years straddling two different worlds: for a part of the year, she was a jet-setting model traveling around the world and during her summers she trained and competed with the Canadian team in junior (later, senior) World Modern Pentathlon competitions. Jenny had always been an athlete since [...]

By Tara R. McKee
How It All Began
As Lydia romped and played on the beach, her parents Gary and Kit watched over her and contemplated her future. It was 2001, the year Lance Armstrong would win the Tour for the third time, and Gary, who was an avid cyclist, wondered where the female athletic role models [...]