From 6th-10th March, here at Cycling Weekly we'll be celebrating Women's Week, with International Women's Day this year landing right in the middle and marking the apex of our coverage on Wednesday, 8th March.
We'll be covering a full spectrum of cycling, from the training tips guiding female professionals (and a growing number of amateurs) to inspirational stories of female empowerment - from the women who've taken up cycling in middle age to the racers who forged their own way when the odds were stacked against them.
From motivation to mechanics, we'll be sharing the common bike-fit issues faced by women and smaller cyclists - plus how to overcome them - as well as guiding you through the differences between unisex bikes and those with women's specific geometry.
On the bike comfort will not be neglected, and we'll be going in depth into the science of sitting comfortably and sharing the best women's bike saddles that we've ridden and rated. Slight spoiler for the article: although having the right saddle shape is key, there are other important adjustments that are generally necessary to make.
And we'll also be taking you through our top kit picks of the best women's cycling shorts and the best women's cycling jerseys for comfort, performance and - for those lucky people living on more southernly latitudes - cooling.
This is all just to tease what's coming up - those may be the topics, but we've got a lot more lined up for each of them. Here are the articles you can jump into now and, for the ones which aren't live yet, we'll be putting the hyperlinks in throughout the week.
Fitness and tech
- Nature's Steroids: How to harness your hormones and improve your performance
- Does sports science only tell us half the story?
- Cycling and pregnancy: expert advice on staying active whilst growing a little person
- Club life: Why do some cycling clubs attract so many more female members?
- RED-S and cycling: Could you be affected by cycling’s hidden under-fuelling epidemic?
- Is 'women's specific geometry' a myth?
- Stock setups are often stacked against women and smaller adult cyclists - here’s how to achieve a better fit
- Female physiology’s best kept secrets: the keys to improving your cycling performance
- Female-specific nutrition strategies: how to adjust your nutrition at each stage of the menstrual cycle
Inspirational stories
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Summit finish and final day time-trial for 2024 Tour de France finale in Nice
Stage 20 will finish atop the Col de la Couillole before final day race against the clock in Nice
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Closing the gap: David Gaudu emerges from Paris-Nice more confident than ever before
The Groupama-FDJ rider finished second overall at the Race to the Sun, but gained more than just the result
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Female-specific nutrition strategies: how to adjust your fuelling at each stage of the menstrual cycle
Your carbohydrate and protein demands vary greatly throughout the month - here’s how to make sure you’re giving your body what it needs
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Strava data shows women restricted by daylight hours for exercise - but female Gen Z Brits prove more active than men
Global data reveals women 8% less likely to exercise outside post-sunset
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Seven ways ‘traditional’ cycle training approaches don't work for women - and what you can do instead
Female physiology demands a different approach to training, nutrition, weight management and recovery – Dr Stacy Sims explains
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Stock bike setups are often stacked against women and smaller adult cyclists - here’s how to achieve a better fit
From frame size to stance width, crank length to brake levers, here's eight common issues faced by smaller adult cyclists – and a bike fitter’s advice on how to overcome them
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Cycling and pregnancy: expert advice on staying active whilst growing a little person
Cycling Weekly's digital editor was never going to spend 40 weeks off the bike...
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Three's peak: How a trio of veteran women TT racers set a blistering new Three Peaks record
Three women, three peaks, one target: to hike up and down each mountain, cycling from one to the next, in record time. CW finds out how they got on
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Ideal time of day to exercise differs between active men and women
Dig deep and make it count - new research shows that the optimal time of day to burn fat is not the same across the genders
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How hormones affect cycling performance - and what you can do to harness them
No, testosterone won’t give you superpowers any more than being on your period writes off your race prospects. Michelle Arthurs-Brennan debunks the myths around sex hormones
