Meet the girls who you will be seeing a lot of in the amateur women’s UK cycling scene.
The AnaNichoola Studios is a cosy venue, which by day celebrates creativity inspired by cycling, and on this occasion, by night hosts a visual showcase of their work. Mule Bar will be welcoming you with complimentary Mule Bar flavoured cocktails, drinks and nibbles, and for those of you who want to stick around, music.
The Mule Bar Girls team launch is one not to be missed, as it is at the forefront of a new attitude to women, cycling and sport in general. Plus you will be the first to see the hottest skinsuit in cycling history by leading cycling fashion designer AnaNichoola.
Venue: 149 Oval Rd, Croydon
Travel: Bike, limited off-street parking on a first-come-first-served basis, 5 min walk from East Croydon Station, 10 min train from London Bridge.
Date: 15/03/2010
Time: 1830 onwards
RSVP. anna@ananichoola.co.uk
What’s a MuleBar ?
Alex and Jimmy founded MuleBar after problems with digesting energy bars on a trip to Cerro Aconcagua in the Andes. These mountains are high and at 6200m high the stomach doesn’t respond well to food. Alex and Jimmy realised that what they, and their stomachs, craved was real food not mucked around with sports bars. Since then they have worked to create great tasting natural bars with the aim of trying to help everybody get out on an adventure.
MuleBars work on a very simple premise: that what is natural is good. A natural mixture of ingredients made the way nature intended and picked for their broad spectrum of energy providing sugars and fats makes for the perfect bar, fuel with flavour, is good. When you’re out on the trail, when you’re competing, racing or working through a tough day, the body responds much better to foods it knows already, foods it has no problem digesting.
MuleBar Girls
MuleBar Girls get a kick from pushing their bodies and competing, but they take with them a passion for femininity, friendship and an appreciation for the land that they ride on.
Fuel for Adventure
MuleBar Girl’s love riding bikes in all their diverse forms, don’t try and pin them down to anyone discipline. A Mule Bar Girl has a shed stuffed full of bikes ready to rip on dirt or tarmac.
The summer diary is packed with road-trips. Expect to see Mule Bar represented at 24-hour races, cross-country events, road and downhill races in both the UK and France.
Fit, Fast, Fearless and Feminine?
Team Mule Bar believe that women riders can be just as skilful, competitive and dedicated as male racers – and they can do this without leaving behind their femininity. In Team MuleBar there is nothing wrong with wearing lip-gloss with a full-face helmet. While you aren’t going to catch these girls slowing down for a broken nail they’d like to think they scrub up well after the race.
Why support a women’s race team?
Women’s cycling is growing. Cycling is now the third most popular leisure activity for women after swimming and athletics and women’s race participation is up 20%.
MuleBar want to help increase the number of women turning to two wheels for their fun and adventure. Whether the bike is used as transport, a tool for improving fitness or for competition all women can benefit from engaging with cycling. Team Mule Bar want to encourage and inspire other women to push their limits by showing how accessible and exciting bike riding is. Team Riders have been chosen as much for their attitude to riding as for their results, showing a taste for adventure and pushing boundaries.
Alex from Mule Bar says:
"We are totally excited to be sponsoring a women's team this year, it's something we've always wanted to do and we know that with this amazing group of girls, we're all going to have one hell of a great adventure. All the girls are doing exceptional things in their lives aside from cycling and so they bring the typical richness we are looking for in all our Mules. Bring it on and look out for the skinsuits."
CONTACT DETAILS
www.mulebar.com
jimmy@mulebar.com
+44 7971 546424
www.ananichoola.co.uk
info@ananichoola.co.uk
07922911213
Note from Paul CI
Anna has regularly worked for CI as an instructor. We hope she will have enough time to continue to do so :)
Paul
Cyclinginstructor.com is a leading provider of Cycle Training Services in the UK
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Anna Glowinski
www.ananichoola.co.uk
(+44) 7922911213
(+44) 2086572142
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Anna Glowinski
Paul Lowe March 3rd, 2010 17:25:34