Fiona Towell from Wild Atlantic Cycling Tours says “I was a late life cycling enthusiast as a result of arthritis making daily running unbearable. A running club mate had broken his leg and set up a road cycling club so invited me along. I had an old mountain bike I dusted off and pitched up on it. He said ‘you might want to remove the shopping basket before we start Fi’.
Road bikes scared me so I bought a hybrid. A year later I felt stable enough to buy a road bike. A year after that I plucked up the courage to buy cleats. It was several years after that before I progressed to tri bars for my first long distance triathlon.
I love cycling. I’ll never be fast but I like to cover ground and Covid provided an excellent opportunity to do this. With my finance recruitment business on ‘freeze’ status as Covid hit, I packed my bike in a cardboard box and flew to Croatia to start some bike-packing.
I thoroughly enjoyed the next two months, heading through Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia and Bulgaria from where I then flew to Spain and cycled some more…
It’s a great job! Much more exhausting and time-consuming than I had originally anticipated but every bit as enjoyable as I imagined.
I’m very excited about the future and can’t wait to host the existing trips and spend time researching new ones next year.”
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