{"id":156090,"date":"2025-09-20T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156090\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T07:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:05:07","slug":"winchester-womens-cycling-leader-clocks-up-1000-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156090\/","title":{"rendered":"Winchester women&#8217;s cycling leader clocks up 1,000 rides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Smith trained as a ride leader in 2013 after being invited on cycle, having not ridden for the previous 30 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t a thing for me to ride for fun &#8211; now it&#8217;s become what I do all the time,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Women lose their confidence in their own ability and physical activity is much harder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the idea of Breeze is to provide &#8220;a safe, community space&#8221; for women to get involved with cycling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re aiming at people who don&#8217;t think of themselves as a cyclist to come and join us,&#8221; Ms Smith said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Whatever reason it is you don&#8217;t cycle, we can help with that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By the end of it, you can see it on their face &#8211; confidence takes a while to build.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Smith trained as a ride leader in 2013 after being invited on cycle, having not ridden for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-156090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}