About Kym

One of the skills that some teams overlook when training for Spirited Women is their mountain biking skills. Being able to ride steep uphill and downhill sections as well as over rough ground can save your team valuable minutes and sometimes hours. The key thing here is that all of your teammates must be capable … Read more

A compass can be useful to use alongside your map to help you orientate your map and yourself and to take a bearing so you know which direction to head. Extremely useful if you are travelling through thick bush, fog or at night where you can’t see features on the map. A compass has a … Read more

One of the special things about adventure racing is that it’s a team sport. This however is one of the toughest aspects of the sport to get right! Finding other keen women of similar fitness with similar goals and availability, while having complimentary strengths, the financial ability and are uninjured can be rather tricky! Of … Read more

Hopefully you enjoyed the race as much as we did! Those beaches, those views, those electric fences!! However if you were a little unprepared then it may not have been the enjoyable experience you were hoping for! This is usually down to either a lack of fitness, skills or the wrong gear. The good news … Read more

The festive season can play havoc with our well intentioned training programmes, with Christmas parties and catching up with friends and family, it can be tough to stay on track. What if we put some strategies in place to avoid this happening? How much better will we feel come February when the Spirited Women Adventure … Read more