Good Read About Women In Sports Espc. Cycling

[kamikazejane]

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/xx-factor/why-we-ignore-womens-sports-20120717.html?page=1

[ny biker]

Hey, I just finished reading this and was about to post it!

I recently started following some female pro cyclists and teams on twitter. I started with Alison Tetrick (thanks to Road ID for putting her in their ads last year) and Specialized-lululemon, and chose others based on who they follow.

[kamikazejane]

Hey, I just finished reading this and was about to post it!

I recently started following some female pro cyclists and teams on twitter. I started with Alison Tetrick (thanks to Road ID for putting her in their ads last year) and Specialized-lululemon, and chose others based on who they follow.

lol came across it on good ol facebook. It's a pretty good read.

[Crankin]

Great article.
Love seeing Evie Stevens on the cover... ABRHS class of 2001.
She was in a few classes with my son. What the hell is wrong with my kids? :).

[Antaresia]

on the subject of marketing women athletes based on their looks instead of talent, there's this article:

http://www.themarysue.com/sarah-robles-olympic-weightlifter/

Ah, what a world we live in.

[Jo-n-NY]

I also began following women's cycling last year last year with Team Vera Bradley and now with Specialized-lululemon. That said all my following is through Twitter because of lack of coverage. I did follow one woman years ago, Kristen Armstrong because of the golds that she got if you call it follow. I guess the better word is aware of her since social media was not around then.

[pll]

I will chime in to say I was a bit disappointed nobody seemed interested in following the Giro Donne coverage when I posted here. Even though it is Italian, one does not need to understand much to follow the race.

[lovelygamer]

Speaking of women in sports, I came here to share this so I'll do it here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/marlo-thomas-it-aint-over-susan-kleiner_n_1666405.html?utm_hp_ref=fifty&ir=Fifty#slide=more238126

This lady is 100 lbs overweight but decided she was tired of trying to get thin in order to be athletic like she always wanted to be. She just did a Triathlon.

I love her attitude. I am overweight too (60 lbs) and I hope to become more athletic and healthy through my efforts with cycling but even if I don't make it to the perfect chart weight, that's okay too. I know I can learn to adapt and still do well.:D

[lovelygamer]

I will chime in to say I was a bit disappointed nobody seemed interested in following the Giro Donne coverage when I posted here. Even though it is Italian, one does not need to understand much to follow the race.

I did look at it some but I'll admit websites in other languages are hard for me to keep up with.

I've also been following the REVE ladies.:)

[chatnoire]

I will chime in to say I was a bit disappointed nobody seemed interested in following the Giro Donne coverage when I posted here. Even though it is Italian, one does not need to understand much to follow the race.

I was following the Giro Donne and the Reve Tour on facebook. I just don't know how to do more than watch the posts and think "Yay, girls on bikes!"

A friend of mine posted this article today in response to a discussion on this very topic on my page on facebook, as a result of my following the Cannondale Women twitter. My post that started the convo was this:


"our hearts are filled with the feeling of proving that impossible things are possible."

So, Cannondale has a group of women riding the Tour de France one day ahead of the male pro teams, and it's called Tour de Reve /Revetour. I've been following along with the girls on twitter, and this tweet came up today. It's totally worth keeping in mind. Just because women don't get sponsored the way men do, doesn't mean women can't ride like the men do...but in our own way.

It was interesting to have the discussion. A friend of mine is a roller derby girl and she posted that she was REALLY happy that when guys do roller derby, it's called "Men's Derby" - a sport where men aren't the default is nice.

[chatnoire]

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I love her attitude. I am overweight too (60 lbs) and I hope to become more athletic and healthy through my efforts with cycling but even if I don't make it to the perfect chart weight, that's okay too. I know I can learn to adapt and still do well.:D

This is such a great attitude, lovelygamer. I was talking with my boyfriend tonight about the level of anxiety that I have around food after my injury. I'm terrified to eat, terrified to put on weight, but I know I need to meet a certain level of healthy calories, and even fat, in order to get bones back together. And PT is not going to be easy either. But having a mindset like yours is such a blessing. I still nitpick at myself for every single solitary flaw, and can't even rest on the "But I can do X on the bike!" as a reward for what those flaws might be. It basically broke my heart this last week when my best friend was visiting from Philly and she and my boyfriend were able to do 135 miles together in 5 days, and I didn't get to do *any* - so then they wanted to go out and eat and eat and eat....not so easy to eat all that when all I do is sit!

[Susan Otcenas]

Speaking of women in sports, I came here to share this so I'll do it here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/marlo-thomas-it-aint-over-susan-kleiner_n_1666405.html?utm_hp_ref=fifty&ir=Fifty#slide=more238126

This lady is 100 lbs overweight but decided she was tired of trying to get thin in order to be athletic like she always wanted to be. She just did a Triathlon.


Sue is a friend of mine from high school! :)

[lovelygamer]

Sue is a friend of mine from high school! :)

Very cool. I admire her attitude.