EBR Women

Send us Fan Mail Emergency medicine consultant and ultra-endurance athlete Kate Hargreaves joins Clare to talk about fitting big adventures around a demanding career, discovering a talent for going long, and why adventure matters more to her than racing. Kate came to endurance sport relatively late, progressing from teaching herself to run around a local reservoir to bike touring from Leeds to Cap...

Send us Fan Mail Freya Mowbray joins Clare on the EBR Women Podcast to talk about her rapid progression in cross-country mountain biking, from coming into the sport relatively late to winning British Championships and Junior World Series races. They talk about learning the technical side of mountain biking, building confidence on difficult courses, racing internationally, balancing serious trainin...

Send us Fan Mail Paralympic gold medallist, world-record holder and adventurer Karen Darke joins Clare to talk about her changing relationship with cycling, competition and challenge. Karen reflects on the mental work behind performing when it mattered at the Paralympics, learning to change her self-talk, knowing when commitment becomes too much, and rediscovering cycling as a way to explore, conn...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Clare talks with Alli Holland, ultra cyclist, former road racer, adventure racer, nurse, and long-time Endurance Bike & Run athlete. Since recording, Alli has finished first female in the Pan Celtic Short Race, adding another remarkable result to a cycling story that already includes winning the Pan Celtic long race, returning from two knee replacements, and c...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of EBR Women, Clare Pearson talks with Karen Ekman after her outstanding ride at the Trans Balkan Race . Karen is from Finland, and has spent many years living in Norway and Austria. Her route into adventure cycling has been long and winding: team sports, snowboarding, freeride competition, mountain biking, gravel riding, bikepacking, and now ultra-distance racing....

Send us Fan Mail Clare talks with Quinda Verheul, a long-distance cyclist, bikepacker, artist and creative currently riding a 6,000 km circle around Europe. Quinda shares how she moved from football and creative work into cycling, why bikepacking became such an important part of her life, and how riding long distances gives her space to think, process, create and connect with the world around her....

Send us Fan Mail Italian cyclist and bikepacker Alice Segre joins Clare on the EBR Women Podcast to talk about bikepacking, ultra cycling, representation and the power of support. Alice shares the story of her first improvised bikepacking trip across Korea, riding from Seoul to Busan on second-hand bikes with friends, backpacks and no tools. That experience opened up a love of travelling by bike,...

Send us Fan Mail Claire Sharpe is a mountain bike guide and coach, trains mountain bike guides, runs the off-road cycling community All Terrain Adventures, and organises the Bristol Rally, a bikepacking rally in the south west of England. In this conversation, Clare and Claire talk about what stops women and marginalised genders from turning up to rides and events, and what organisers can do to ma...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of EBR Women, Clare Pearson talks with ultra cyclist, trail runner and EBR Scholar Dilara Tuna . Originally from Germany and now based in Brussels, Dilara’s route into endurance sport has been anything but conventional. Before long-distance cycling and ultrarunning, there was a childhood shaped by horse riding, responsibility, bad weather, and learning to keep goin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of EBR Women, Clare Pearson speaks with May Jackson, a Colorado-based endurance cyclist and one of our 2026 EBR Women scholars. May’s background in competitive gymnastics continues to shape her approach to cycling, bringing a strong sense of discipline and a natural competitive edge. She balances her development as an endurance athlete alongside full-time work, bui...

Send us Fan Mail In the first episode of EBR Women , Clare Pearson speaks with Leanne Wrightson , owner of Blooming Wild Adventures and one of the 2026 EBR Women scholars. Leanne’s journey into endurance cycling began after a period of burnout in her late twenties, when reconnecting with the outdoors became an important part of rebuilding her life. What started as a way to regain balance gradually...