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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.
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Follow Your Heart On the 18th February Sean Conway will set off from London to attempt to break the world record for cycling solo and unsupported around the world in less than 100 days! He is also aiming to raise £100,000 for Solar Aid - a charity investing in solar power for schools in Africa. I was delighted to welcome Sean to Milton Keynes for a heart shaped Breeze bike ride to raise awareness for his adventure! Cycle your heart out... around the world! Location Milton Keynes, England Heart Route A flat 8km route, all off-road Cycle Your Heart Out Despite the cold weather there was a good show of support for Sean, who answered questions about his ambitious feat ahead! "Cycling with Sean made for a memorable weekend, it's great to get out and meet people who make the most of this world, such an inspiration. It's made me want to get on my bike more and make the most of every opportunity." - Rachel Baranska from Milton Keynes Spread the love Thank you so much to Sean for cycling all the way from London to cycle his heart out with us! To support his world record attempt, visit Cycling the Earth to donate to Solar Aid. You can also text ‘BIKE91 £10’ to 70070 for a quick and easy donation. Watch the video below and view the gallery to find out how the ride went! You can also click below for my tips on how to create your own heart shaped route! 11/2/2012 0 Comments Cycle Your Heart Out in the snow!Follow your heart Me and fellow Breeze ride leader Karen decided to cycle our hearts out with our friend Rachel, and celebrate such a lovely snowy day! Location Furzton, Milton Keynes in England Heart route 5.5 mile Cycle your heart out This heart route is perfect for a relaxed cycle ride and follows parts of the great route 51. We cycled around the lakes of Furzton and Teardrop passed the open air concert venue 'The National Bowl' and on through the parks of Shenley Brook End. After a straight cruise along the redways, we entered peaceful Loughton and the fields of beautiful horses. Spread the love 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.   Follow your heart Thanks to all the ladies that took part in the 'New Year New You' Breeze ride, the perfect way to cycle into 2012! Location Milton Keynes, England Heart route A flat 8km route, all off-road Cycle your heart out We ended our ride with some tea and fortune cookies at Willen lake cafe, my favorite cookie said ''Hope is like food, you will starve without it" Spread the love Everyone who came got a free Cycle your heart out goodie bag! Thank you to everyone that contributed, Lush for their beautiful massage bars, Chainey Cycles for their handy puncture repair kits, Wendy at the Yoga Boutique for leaflets on her fantastic yoga classes and Carlo at Nuda Hair design for 20% off at his fab salon! Thank you also to 'Without Rain' for providing their great new single 'Make the Most' for the New Years video, scroll down to watch. Click here for my top tips on creating your own heart shaped route! 10/12/2011 0 Comments Cycle your heart out this ChristmasFollow your heart A huge thank you to all the lovely ladies that braved the cold in yesterday's Christmas Breeze ride! Despite the cold weather the sun shone brightly, and the tasty hot chocolate and mince pies were well and truly deserved! Everyone that came along received their FREE Cycle Your Heart Out goodie bag to help them spread that festive love! Click below to view the route, and find out what goodies were in the bags! Cycle your heart out… this Christmas! Location Milton Keynes, England Heart Route A flat 8km route, all off-road Cycle your heart out The Christmas heart route took us a lovely relaxed ride around Willen Lake and onto Ouzel river. We then cycled back in time passed the famous golden dinosaur, and onto a nice gentle incline for great views of the city at Campbell Park. It was then downhill all the way back to Willen where we all celebrated with some well deserved hot chocolate and mince pies! Spread the love A massive thank you to everyone who came on the ride, and all those that contributed to all the goodies in the bag! Lush, Peace One Day, Arena, Chaineys Cycles, Crafts to Inspire, Daniel De Waal and Cotton Craft! Scroll down to find out what went in the goodie bags! If you would like to have fun creating your own heart route click here for my top tips! If you also live in the UK you can find a local ride in your area organised by British Cycling's great Breeze initiative! Click here to find a ride in your area. Lush kindly donated the divine smelling 'Friends with benefits' massage bars! Not only do they smell like chocolate orange, but they are also made with fairtrade cocoa butter! Cotton Craft in Milton Keynes did an such an amazing job with the bag printing! The bags they provided are all fairtrade & made by the fantastic organisation 'Whatever it Takes' who have had celebrities such as Nicole Kidman, Lilly Allen & the late Amy Winehouse design for them. In August I organised a heart route called 'Midnight Peace ride' to help raise awareness for Peace One Day's annual day of peace. They have kindly donated some funky wristbands and badges! Belly dancer Arena kindly made beautiful charm bracelets for each bag! I absolutely love the little bike and heart charms! Arena is currently Biker Girl of the week! My local friendly Bicycle shop in Shenley Church End, Milton Keynes kindly donated some puncture repair kits! Brazilian designer Dene Edwards created these beautiful Christmas decorations to hang on the tree! South African soap King Daniel De Waal made these beautiful organic lavender heart soaps and lip balms. Follow Your Heart What inspired me to create this heart route was the beautiful initiative ‘Peace One Day.’ Jeremy Gilley founded the film project in 1999 to document his efforts to create an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence. In 2001 this dream finally came true when the United Nations adopted the first ever day of global peace on 21st September. Cycle your heart out … for peace Location Milton Keynes, England Heart Route A flat 8km route, all off-road Cycle Your Heart Out Every year Peace One Day celebrates this day by holding a special concert. It was a pleasure to be able to go this year to their concert at the o2 arena in London. So many great performances, music from Kat Stevens, plus the multi talented Newton Faulkner & Razorlight! Spread the Love You can show your support for Peace One Day by clicking here to add your name to their petition, and help make peace a reality! Thank you to all my amazing friends that took part in the Midnight Peace Ride. Click here if you want my top tips in creating your own heart shaped route for peace! |
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