I think that will be more clear when I finish writing the first post: the thing is, I think that traditionally women are excluded from a lot of sports, by a combination of really systemic issues. Between lack of funding and lack of coverage, women's sports don't draw the same participatory interest that male sports seem to draw.

I don't think I can change that on a global or even regional scale, but I decided that as much as I bemoan societal problems and inequalities, I was as much a part of the problem as anyone else because I wasn't following women's cycling myself--although I enthusiastically follow men's, I simply wasn't paying attention to women's cycling.

My thought was that by setting a concrete goal for myself (write one short 1000 character piece a week) I'd be exercising my writing and also following women's sports. I was also really inspired by a series of articles a good friend of mine wrote--she herself is a woman bike racer, and wrote a series on women athletes preparing for the Olympics which you can read here: http://www.thedailymuse.com/author/pan-pan-fan/.

Basically, I'm hopeful that I can get myself to focus more on the incredibly strong athletes, who work so hard, with so much less glory and money than the people I've typically followed, and hopefully learn a lot in the process. If writing about women in bike racing gets even one other person to have a similar realization to mine, I'd be really happy!