“Start a ripple effect of heart shaped bicycle routes, and create a more heartful, loving world”...
​
​Day after day, night after night, that sentence would whirl around my head. Approaching Cycle Your Heart Out’s 6th birthday, I needed to finally fulfill that wish and overcome my fear of organising! For years I’ve helped people make heart shaped routes online and one on one, but never in a group, June 25th changed all that.

Celebrating Cycle Your Heart Out's 6th Birthday in Barcelona with around 19 different nationalities was a dream come true. It was beautiful to watch people's faces as they created their own heart-shaped route, and see the ripple effect finally come to light.​..

Scroll down to see all the heart routes people made, discover my top 3 heart making tips, and meet all the beautiful souls that helped make this day come to life!

Photos by William Rose

To help kick-start the heart shaped action I shared my 5 Barcelona heart routes with everyone to show my favourite bicycle-friendly paths. I then shared my top 3 tips for making a heart shaped bicycle route...

1. Highlight! The easiest way to make your route is to first highlight all the best bicycle paths and sights you want to see, and then dot to dot style, create your own heart shaped bicycle route.   
2. ​Size doesn't matter - Your heart routes can be as big or as small as you want.
3. ​Perfection is an illusion - Just like life, your routes  don't need to be perfect, nor do they need to go down the most scenic path, just try your best and follow your heart.

To create the ripple effect everyone was asked to share their route and use the hashtag 
#CYHOWORLD to help spread the love, and create a more heartful, loving planet! (which stands for Cycle Your Heart Out World!) 

Everyone that created their own heart route entered into a prize draw! Picked at random from my bicycle basket we had 7 lucky winners, prizes included a miniature watercolor art set, a wall map of Europe, a Spinning Yogi's goody bag and an official Cycle Your Heart Out mug! No one walked home empty handed however as everyone got and a little heart shaped candy gift!

Photos by William Rose

Thank you to artist Cedric for sketching me, Javier and Magda. His awesome art project is called #humansoftrip where he travels around sketching people without them realising, then asking people to share his art. Cedric also loves cycling and joined in on the heart shaped fun creating his own heart shaped bicycle route below!

Big thank you to Will for being the official photographer on the day and capturing the day beautifully, Anton for making the tasty sandwich feast, Vanessa, Javier, Silvia & Gabby for helping me set up & get organized, and everyone else who took part and made the event possible! 

We'll be meeting Sunday 25th June in Ciutadella Park at 5pm. I’ll be helping everyone to draw their own heart shaped bicycle route, with prizes to be won! Bring a plate or drink from your country and enjoy an evening of unity. Together let's start a ripple effect and create a more heartful loving world.

Don't worry if you don’t live in Barcelona, this event is global! Create and share your own heart route by using the hashtag #cyhoworld

Click 'I'M COMING' below confirm your attendance and be kept up to date!

Love Sarah x

It was heart warming to hear so many beautiful stories and get to connect with so many interesting ladies! 

I want to say a BIG thanks for everyone's support by sharing one of my mini Barcelona Heart Routes below for you to try! This is one of my favorite routes to do at sunrise to help me start my day heartfully and full of gratitude, I hope you like it ;)    

If you want me to help you make your own heart route I have some more info coming soon for Cycle Your Heart Out's 6th Birthday on July 2nd, so make sure you subscribe to my updates below so I can keep you in the loop!

​Love Sarah x

It would be great if you share it with all your awesome friends, you can also subscribe below so I can keep you up to date with all my latest heart shaped updates.

​Cycle your hearts out and I'll speak to you soon,

Sarah x

In my first ever podcast I talk about why I created Cycle Your Heart Out, where I hope to do  my next heart route... and a few other random facts about me ;-)

Big thanks to The GridBCN and Katrina for having me on their awesome show! The Grid Barcelona is all about connecting communities, promoting emerging talent and helping small businesses grow.

It would be great if you share it with all your awesome friends, you can also subscribe below so I can keep you up to date with all my latest heart shaped updates.

​Cycle your hearts out and I'll speak to you soon,

Sarah x

Spring is officially here! Which means the days of cycling without a wooly hat have finally come!

Today I have a cool art post for you, plus new exciting news at the bottom ... 😉🎨

​I was recently featured in Pudding Shop blog, run by the talented Lydia Beardmore. She wanted to find out why I Sketch & what made me create Cycle Your Heart Out.

Pudding Shop is a cool blog for women who travel, write about travels, say women like this – wimen. They publish stories, tips, hints and much more.

​Click below to read 'Sketches from Barcelona'!

Subscribe below to be the first to hear about my new 'Paint Your Heart Out' shop coming soon!😉🎨💌

Cycle your hearts out and I'll speak to you soon!

Sarah x

Upload Your Heart Route Photo on Instagram using #Cyhoworld
Not on Instagram? No worries, you can post on Facebook here, or just send a link of your route on the form below!
The Prize: ​The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho! (A book all about following your heart!)
​The winner will be chosen at random in a future video blog, make sure you subscribe here to my Youtube Channel so you will be the first to find out if you've won!
**Competition closes 12am GMT on 31st March**

I just wanted to wish you all an incredible 2016, thank you so much for all your support in 2015! I know that good things are comming for you this year!

As I sometimes find it difficult to stick to new resolutions, I thought I'd share my top 3 with you all. The more you share your own resolutions with friends & family, the more likely you'll get that little kick up the bum to keep on track with them! ;)

As I cycled around Barcelona over the festive season, I couldn't help but notice how much the street music brought happiness to people passing by. It reminded me of a beautiful quote that I saw recently at a good friends house, & felt it summed up life perfectly.

Thanks to Barcelona's musical talents Microguagua & Buenas Costumbres for inspiring me on my cycle.

Watch the video to find out what the quote is, and what 3 resolutions I've made for this year!

All my love,