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#107: The InternationElles on Cycling (the Tour de France route) for Equality

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Sarah Anne Evans and Pippa Lyon who are both members of the Veloroos; an Australian non-professional women’s cycling team. This is Sarah Anne’s second time on the podcast. She joined me with her Veloroos teammate Julie Ann Hazlett in July 2017 to talk about winning their category at the 5,000km Race Across American in 2015 (you can find that conversation here). In 2019, Sarah Anne and Julie Anne, together with a third team member, Pippa Lyon (who you’ll meet today on the podcast for the first time) are about to tackle their hardest challenge to date. The ladies have joined an international women’s cycling team called the InternationElles for an ambitious project. Together with a female women’s cycling team, the InternationElles will ride every stage of the 2019 Tour de France, one day ahead of the men’s professional race. So basically, yes, they are riding the Tour de France! It’s a journey of 3,640km over 21 stages, which works out at roughly 1200km of cycling per week - for 3 weeks! And, if that’s not hard