Photo: Tracy L Chandler

Retired pro cyclist, activist, author and documentary-maker, Kathryn Bertine, is on a mission to combat inequality in women’s cycling. A driving force behind the launch of La Course, the women’s race from Le Tour de France, and the brains behind the Homestretch Foundation, a non-profit where pro female cyclists can stay and train rent-free, she’s already changing the game. But there’s more work to be done.

Here, Kathryn chats with me about juggling jobs as a pro rider, supporting women at Homestretch, and how she believes a two-tier system with base salary is the game changer women’s cycling needs.

Photo: Rachel Ceretto/ Red Bull

In 2017, Ironman triathlete and Red Bull athlete, Daniela Ryf, made it three in a row by taking her third consecutive Ironman world title at the Ironman World Championship in Kona (in true multi-distance athlete style, she had already bagged the title of 70.3 world champion.) In our Q&A, the Swiss Olympian and ‘Angry Bird’ chats to me via email about her triathlon training, becoming accustomed to pain, and what her favourite swim-bike-run sessions look like.

During the week cyclocross convert Charlotte Sampson is a cycling PR at Shift Active Media, but come the weekend she’s a mud-loving cyclocross racer. Here, she shares her top cyclocross tips for beginners – from kit and training to how to get started.

To describe Hélène Dumais as an ultra-runner, adventure racer or endurance athlete doesn’t quite cover it. An extreme mix of all three, she was the first (and only) woman to finish the brutal Survival Run Nicaragua (an extreme 50-mile race peppered with unique challenges) in 2016, which she followed two days later with its 100km Ultra Trail sister event to complete the Devil’s Double. In 2017, she came second lady in the 430km Montane Spine Race, and in the same year ran 738km as part of Infinitus888.

Here, the unstoppable Canadian reveals why the Montane Spine Race was her toughest event yet, and shares her accounts of disorientating fatigue and near-death running experiences.

From freezing cross country meets to epic swimruns, Helen Croydon has a long list of gruelling endurance events under her belt. But it wasn’t always so. I caught up with the former party girl to chat about her new memoir, This Girl Ran, and find out how she went from immaculate, rain-hating city girl to gritty endurance sport convert.

Eight years ago, at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, British skeleton athlete Amy Williams MBE broke two course records and scooped Britain’s first individual gold medal for 30 years. Fast-forward to today and the retired athlete and mum-of-one (Amy has an 11-month-old son, Oscar) is about to head to PyeongChang to commentate at this year’s Winter Olympics.

Here, Amy chats about GB medal hopes, motherhood and how she’s back on the bike training for the 100km Dream Challenges Ride the Night event.

Photo: Imani Lee

With three humungous world records in ultra-cycling to her name, including Highest Annual Mileage Record (86,573.2 miles), Highest Monthly Mileage Record (8,012 miles) and Fastest 100,000 Miles ridden (423 days), ultra-cyclist Amanda Coker is one of the world’s leading ultra-distance cyclists. Yet somehow, despite cycling on average 236 miles every day for 423 days, she’s managed to fly largely under the radar of mainstream and cycling press.

Here’s the story, and my Q&A with Amanda.

If you’re into triathlon you’ll probably recognise Heather Fell, one half of the Global Triathlon Network (GTN) presenting team. A Modern Pentathlon Olympic silver medallist and former world number one, Heather retired from elite sport in 2014 and now fronts GTN, bringing us tip-filled videos about swim-bike-run. Oh, and last year she completed an Ironman triathlon, in Kona no less.

Here, Heather runs through what a typical day working for GTN includes. Hint: It’s not all riding bikes…

Photo: Katie Orlinsky

Dog musher Kristin Knight Pace runs Hey Moose! Kennel, a long-distance dog racing kennel in Healy, Alaska, where she lives with her husband and 13-month-old daughter. Kristin has spent the last five months running her much loved dogs in preparation for her second Yukon Quest, a renowned 1000-mile dog sled race from Fairbanks, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Dubbed ‘The most difficult dog sled race in the world’, conditions can be dangerous and temperatures as low as -70F.

From blizzards to run-ins with 2000lb bison, Kristin shares an insight into what life as a dog musher entails.

Photo Credit: Dave Trumpore

Enduro mountain bike racer Isabeau Courdurier learned to ride when she was three and by the age of five had completed her first MTB race. Now 24, the diminutive French rider heads into 2018 with a successful year of podiums, a Megavalanche win, and second place overall ranking in the Enduro World Series to her name – all while juggling training and racing with studying for her Masters degree.

Here, she shares her thoughts on 2017, her favourite places to ride and her goals for the coming season.