In 2018 I was lucky enough to attend the Wheel Women Japanese Cycling tour led by my wonderful friend Tina McCarthy. Tina is a self-confessed Japan-o-file as well as a fantastic cycling coach who runs her women’s cycle coaching business Wheel Women based in Melbourne, Australia.
She recently asked me for advice about where she might have an article about her Japanese adventures, and I immediately on the Women Who Cycle blog of course. She’s since also published it on several other websites and I’ve finally come good with my promise. It’s longer than my typical post so I’ve broken it into Part 1 which is below, and Part 2 which I will post next week.
Over to you Tina.
There’s always a turning point, I see it happen time and time again. To watch as they change from that nervous and unsure rider with little self-belief to the one who says ‘Yep, I could do that… I WANT to do that!’ It’s that moment when you know their life has suddenly taken a different turn. It’s that moment when they choose to make their holiday include cycling…it gives me tingles just thinking about it.
It felt almost like a dare when I said to my husband ‘Maybe while we are in Japan we should ride that cycling route I heard about’. I half expected him to say…
