The One Day Tour 2021 by Janet

The One Day Tour 2021 by Janet

Most years, Kent Velo Girls have a special day out in summer called the One Day Tour (ODT) where we travel somewhere completely different for a long ride. In 2021 the ODT was back after a few years off and involved a ferry trip to the Isle of Wight and a 65 mile ride...
Hell of The Ashdown 2022 by Candy

Hell of The Ashdown 2022 by Candy

Positivity is definitely contagious and everything seems more manageable if you know you will have the support and company of others! As a member of KVG we have access to the Club’s closed Facebook group, where we post routes for our rides. On many occasions, the...
A Bike Ride, a Sauna and a Sea Swim by Suzie

A Bike Ride, a Sauna and a Sea Swim by Suzie

January isn’t a month which easily gives itself to cycling adventures, with its short daylight hours and the weather generally being either grey and wet or freezing cold. This is a time when many of us stick to indoor training, with any outdoor rides being short and...
Chase the Sun 2021 by Suzie

Chase the Sun 2021 by Suzie

The first event I attended after I joined the Kent Velo Girls in 2018 was a ‘Goal Setting Evening’, at which Clare Midgley (one of KVG’s founders) talked about Chase the Sun, a self supported ride across the UK in the daylight hours of a single day, leaving at sunrise...
Chase the Sun 2017

Chase the Sun 2017

June 17, 2017 the longest weekend day of the year.  Sunrise 4:39am Sunset 9:32pm,  coast to coast, 206 miles.  This year there were over 300 riders who had 16 hours and 53minutes to ride the distance before the sun goes down, an average of 14 mph....