Pro Women's Cycling

Sarah's been in the Netherlands for the Energiewacht Tour and it was spectacular, so we recap what it was like to be at the race and to see the junior women riding as well as the elite women. We also cover the results from Redlands and the Emakumeen Saria. There's a lot of racing to get through as we go stage by stage but lots of interesting moments to catch up on and as always a lot to be thrilled by. This episode comes free with a bag of wily foxes to listeners in jurisdictions allowed to have them*

(*no actual wily foxes are available to anyone anywhere, ever).

Italian cyclist Elene Cecchini talks about her 2016 season so far, getting ready to race the Energiewacht Tour, and more

Sarah's in The Netherlands this week for the Energiewacht Tour and so we tried some skype trickery with her phone, hopefully the sound works out for the most part. In any case, the Ronde van Vlaanderen was spectacular on Sunday and it was spectacular! We catch up on our favourite parts of the race and all of the things we loved. We also discuss the issues with the streaming and what we think that means for future races. We take a quick look at the GP Dottignies and look ahead to the racing coming up. It's a quick one, but a good one!

This week's episode we catch up on everything Gent Wevelgem! There's the Pajot Hills Classic, the first round of the Enduro World Series (from Chile!) some BMX and whole load of other interesting bits and pieces from around the web. We also have a new pinnacle of HTFU to present and some more great news about prizemoney!

Click through to our website to see the videos and links to things we talked about this week:

https://prowomenscycling.com/2016/03/31/podcast-2016-episode-10-this-week-in-htfu/

English commentary to go with the Sporza highlights from the 2016 Women's Gent-Wevelgem - start the audio first, and when I say, press play on the video:

http://sporza.be/cm/sporza/videozone/sporten/v-wielrennen/v-Gent-Wevelgem/1.2613610

This week we catch up on all the action from Trofeo Binda, including the Trofeo da Moreno which is part of the new Junior Nations Cup. There's heaps of action from the para-cycling world championships and some big announcements about upcoming races. We've inverted the usual time of day and Dan's struggling to cope with being awake in the morning. He does remember his name though.

Find the links to all the videos and other things we talked about in the podcast post on our website:

https://prowomenscycling.com/2016/03/25/podcast-2016-episode-9-dan-remembers-his-name/

My home-made, 1-take commentary for the Italian Trofeo Alfredo Binda highlights. Pick up the highlights here, mute them, and press play on the video when I tell you to in the audio!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFkS0i70r8w

I'll be putting up more highlights videos & things I see from the race on my blog, http://www.prowomenscycling.com - and tell me what you think on my twitter, http://www.twitter.com/_pigeons_

This week we talk up a storm about all the racing that's happened over the last week (and how it's nice to get live video this week!). We catch up on Drenthe, Drentse8 and the ABSA Cape Epic. There's another very open video from Wiggle High5 about their performance on the weekend. There's been some really interesting articles come out that caught our attention as well. Dan doesn't actually pick a fight with anyone this week but we do invent a new board game. It's a long one and it plumbs new depths of nerdery!

We have tons of links to things we talked about, and things we didn't get around in, in the podcast post on our site:

http://prowomenscycling.com/2016/03/16/podcast-2016-episode-8-depths-of-nerdery/

This is experimental women's cycling English commentary, to go with the short UCI clip of the Ronde van Drenthe. The video link is below - hit play when I tell you to in the audio!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyZ7kgPISJU

Stefan Wyman has been around women's cycling for years, managing his road team, Matrix Procycling, and in his role as Helen Wyman's mechanic, soigneur and more in her cyclocross career.

Stef always has lots of opinions, so we took to twitter to give everyone the chance to ask him some questions... which resulted in some really fun, and some quite tricky questions - I had a great time asking them all, thank you to everyone who contributed.

It's a long interview, covering things like the state of women's racing in the UK, why the team's no longer UCI-ranked, how British women can get into racing and develop bike skills, Laura Trott, how we as fans can help the sport, and a lot more.

Click through to my website for the links to things we talked about:

https://prowomenscycling.com/2016/03/13/sarah-interviews-stefan-wyman/