The bike saved my life: Amy Hudson on her biggest cycling adventure | Watts Occurring Femmes

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Four years ago, Amy Hudson had barely started cycling. Now? Well, she just finished riding the entire men's Tour de France route... including the transfers. She credits the bike with saving her life and her story is a remarkable, inspiring tale of human endeavour. Emma and Manon were delighted to welcome Amy to the show - and sat there open mouthed as she told her story! We know you're going to love this. Go and follow Amy! https://www.instagram.com/amy.cycling.adventures/ Watts Occurring Femmes is brought to you by Rouvy, and hosted by Pinarello. Want a free month on ROUVY, on us? Use code FEMMES when you sign up and explore everything ROUVY has to offer. SIGN UP HERE: https://rouvy.com/?utm_source=gtcc&utm_medium=direct-buy&utm_campaign=rouvy-brand&utm_term=femmes-podcast ROUVY connects indoor and outdoor by bringing the real routes from around the world to your home and ROUVY's new Route Creator tool allows users to film, upload and ride their favourite loops on ROUVY. Fancy a trip to your local Pinarello retailer? Visit https://pinarello.com/global/en/store-locator to find your local store today. Oh, and a huge thank you to Arlo & Jacob for Emma and Manon's snazzy armchairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bread of heaven, bread of heaven, feed me till I want no more. Feed me till I want no more. Feed me till I want no more.
0:17.4	Shemai Emma. Welcome back to what's the Curran Farm, brought to you by
0:21.8	Ruby, hosted by Pinarello. And today we're joined with our first ever What's the Curin Farm guest.
0:27.6	Yeah, it's a very special one. Amy Hudson only started cycling in lockdown and now four years later,
0:33.8	she now has a career as an inspirational cycling influencer and she's just
0:39.1	finished an incredible challenge as well, cycling the whole route of the Men's Tour de France
0:43.9	plus the transfers. We can't wait to hear all about it. Welcome Amy. Hello. I guess we'll start.
0:52.1	How are you feeling? How are the legs?
0:59.8	Well, it's 12 days since I finished, but it feels like a lot longer. And actually, surprisingly, I'm not feeling too bad.
1:06.3	I can't even imagine riding a bike for that long. I guess how was it?
1:13.6	It was hard, but amazing. It was the best experience I've ever done. I loved it.
1:14.6	It was moments I hated it, but I loved it overall.
1:18.6	I just couldn't like, the thought of riding for that many hours and that many kilometres on your body.
1:25.6	Like, it's so inspirational and like it's such an
1:28.0	amazing achievement it's something yeah like I feel so inspired by in the fact like
1:32.3	you're sitting with us here 12 days after doing that is such an incredible thing and
1:36.9	the fact you did it solo as well like is there a reason behind that or like how come
1:42.5	you did it yeah you went down that route or was the other
1:46.1	people involved so my husband was supporting me Kyle okay so he was in a car and so he was like
1:52.2	stopping along the way giving me snacks feeding me cheering me on and he did do some of the mountains with
1:57.1	me as well but I was really determined to kind of do it on my own so like really lovely people came out and rode with me little bits and he rode little bits, but I didn't let anyone go in front of me. I was like, you can go next to me or behind me because I don't want to draft. I had the idea to do it like three years ago when I went out to see the Tour de France. And I was like, well, I won't be ready next year because I won't have been cycling long enough,
2:17.9	so it will have to be 2025.
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