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Follow your heart After meeting back in England as British Cycling Breeze ride leaders, Ana and Colette decided to join me in sunny Spain for heart shaped ride around the city! Cycle your heart out for... Sun sea, bikes and cheese! Location Barcelona, Spain Heart Route A beautiful 11km flat route along Barcelona's bicycle paths view heart route Cycle Your Heart Out The route took us on a relaxing ride past many of Barcelona’s main highlights, including Arc de Triomf, Barceloneta Beach and Gaudi's famous Sagrada Familia! Spread the love So grateful to be able to ride with Ana and Colette again! Click here to see some of my previous Breeze rides in England. To create your own heart route click here for my top tips!
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18/12/2012 0 Comments Cycle Your Heart Out this Christmas!ÂFollow your heart This Christmas me and fellow Breeze leader Ana Jojic decided to celebrate the festive season with a sunny Breeze ride around Milton Keynes, followed by some cake at the Chain Reaction bicycle festival. Location Milton Keynes, England Heart route 4 miles click here for route Cycle your heart out The heart route took us from the Theatre district to sheep filled Campbell Park, past the canal and on to Willen Lake for some fantastic views of the Milton Keynes skyline. The surprisingly warm weather made it feel almost like autumn! Homemade cake and coffee at the Chain Reaction bicycle festival was the perfect place to finish our ride. A cool under cover market of locally hand made goods, sold from bicycles, hosted by MK Festival Fringe! Spread the love Thanks so much to all the ladies that joined the ride, and to Ana for helping to it with me! Congratulations to Maja Dunn for winning the prize draw for my handmade Cycle Your Heart Out 'Freedom' Pendant! Ana also makes these cute personalised bear's on bikes, check them out below!  Follow Your Heart On the weekend of 23-24 June 2012, Breeze organised The Big Breeze Bike Ride, the UK’s first ever event to get thousands of women riding a bike at the same time! So I decided to celebrate this event by creating a nice scenic heart-route all along the canals! Location East London Heart Route 7 miles Cycle Your Heart Out Me and fellow Breeze Champions, Shahanara and Gita led the ride and met all the ladies at Victoria Park. We cycled through the scenic Limehouse Basin, historic Three Mills and right past the Olympic stadium! A huge thank you to all the everyone who took part! The sun decided to show it's face and we celebrated at the end with some ice-cream and cake at the Lakeside Pavilion in Victoria Park. Click below to watch the video, see the gallery, and read what some of the ladies thought about the ride! Spread the love "It was wonderful, I really enjoyed the route. It was a nice pace, not to fast and not too slow. Plenty of eventful things to see, and good company along the way" -Una Coogan "I thought my first Breeze ride was awesome, great scenic route. I went past parts of London I've never been to. A great canal ride. It was great in the rain and also the sun and we had really good fun" -Melisa Mok "The Breeze ride was really fun, it was really good meeting loads of likeminded women who like cycling" -Rachel Newstead If you live in England you can find a ride in your area organised by British Cycling's great Breeze initiative! Click here to find a ride in your area. You can also have fun creating your own heart route, click here for my top tips! Follow your heart Happy good Friday everyone! Following the same heart route as the snowy Breeze ride in February, we celebrated this Easter with a fun heart route around the lakes of Milton Keynes! Location Furzton Lake, Milton Keynes in England Heart route 5.5 mile Cycle your heart out Starting at Furzton Lake this gentle route took us through the parks of Shenley Brook End into Loughton and passed the fields of beautiful horses. We then cruised past Teardrop lake and followed parts of the great Millennium cycle route alongside the National Bowl. Spread the love At the end we had a little Easter egg hunt at Furzton Lake around the Triple Starhead Sculpture! Congratulations to Lauren for finding all the eggs in the fastest time and winning the tasty Golden Chocolate bunny! Click below to watch the video! Create your own heart route by clicking here for my top tips! If you live in England you can find a ride in your area organised by British Cycling's great Breeze initiative! Click here to find a ride in your area. Follow your heart For Richmond's 2nd Cycle Your Heart Out Breeze ride we were delighted to be joined by Richmond cycling champion, Councilor Katherine Harborne! Location Richmond park, London Heart route This lovely 7 mile heart route follows most of the off-road Tasman cycle path around beautiful Richmond park. Cycle your heart out "I think heart shaped ride are a brilliant way to inspire people to cycle their heart's out!" - Councilor Katharine Harborne Spread the love A huge thank you to all the lovely ladies that took part! To help spread the love I gave everyone their free ‘Fenton inspired’ Cycle Your Heart Out bag! The next ride with Breeze champions Alice and Andrea is Friday 13th April 2012 at 5.00pm! You can also visit the Breeze site, pop in your postcode and find a list of upcoming rides in your local area. If you would like to create your own heart route click here for my top heart making tips!  Follow your heart Despite the heavy rain and lack of sunshine, Richmond's first ever Cycle Your Heart Out Breeze ride was a huge success! The ride took us around one of the largest Royal Parks in London, with some deer spotting thrown in too! Heart Route 7 miles along the off-road Tasman cycle path Cycle your heart out For Theresa Hughes from Watford, this ride was quite special to her... "I lost both my mum and dad to heart disease, as it's St Patrick's and Mother's day this weekend, I thought this heart ride was a really nice tribute to my Irish mum" To help dry ourselves off we enjoyed a nice cup of hot chocolate at the cosy Roebuck pub overlooking the beautiful Richmond hill. Spread the love Congratulations to Breeze champions Alice and Andrea for organising their first Breeze ride and coming up with such a brilliant heart shaped route!A big thank you to everyone that joined, and also Theresa and Valerie for traveling all the way from Essex and Watford to take part. Everyone that came along received their FREE Cycle Your Heart Out Richmond bag! If you would like to have fun creating your own heart route click here for my top tips! If you live in England you can find a ride in your area organised by British Cycling's great Breeze initiative! Click here to find a ride in your area. |
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