Wheel Talk: The ups and downs of being a woman in cycling journalism
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week is a very special episode. Abby sat down with friend of the podcast Rebecca Charlton to chat about cycling through pregnancy, missing the first Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, and the backlash of covering men’s cycling as a woman.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello and welcome back to the Wheel Talk podcast. My name is Abby Mickey. We're |
| 0:19.1 | going off the rails this week. We are Sans Lauren and Gracie, but I'm joined by Rebecca Charlton. |
| 0:25.2 | Hello? Hello. I'm very excited. I'm so excited. I figured like we I've had you on the podcast before, we've chatted women cycling, we chatted |
| 0:35.4 | ride London, but we didn't ever get to dive into a lot of other stuff that I |
| 0:39.6 | think is really cool about you. So I thought, ah man, we should just have a whole episode where we just kind of chat and that's what we're doing |
| 0:46.8 | That was so lovely a lovely introduction I feel like I always go off at a massive tangent when I'm a guest on your podcast and we kind of have to just, we've run out of time. |
| 0:57.6 | I think we went to a record length last time, didn't we? |
| 1:01.2 | Possible, yeah, I think we did, I think we did. I think I was in post, |
| 1:04.8 | I was editing it, and I was like, |
| 1:06.6 | oh man, there's nothing I can cut. |
| 1:08.4 | It's just gonna be a long episode. |
| 1:11.4 | I hope everyone else agreed. I'm sure that they loved it. I never got any bad |
| 1:16.0 | feedback and even if I do I've instructed to Kaley who receives the emails, the editor emails, to never forward me any bad feedback because my |
| 1:26.1 | fragile self can't cope. |
| 1:28.1 | Well that's a whole topic though, isn't it? |
| 1:30.9 | Yeah it is. |
| 1:31.5 | I mean we could talk, we could talk about being a female presenter because, and maybe we should. But, before we dive into that, this episode is brought to you by the members of the Escape Collective. Head on over to escape.com slash join, |
| 1:43.8 | become a member. |
| 1:44.6 | There's a bunch of cool stuff going on over there |
| 1:46.8 | on Escape. |
| 1:47.4 | We've got great coverage of cycling. |
| 1:49.6 | Many different forms of cycling. |
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