On the rollers warming up for the 3rd round of the Matrix Fitness GP Series in Croydon, Helen Wyman gives us some insights as to how circuit races compare to racing in a tour such as the Women's Tour. 

Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.

Helen Wyman - Road to the 2015 Women's Tour With Matrix Pro Cycling

Sports psychologist Jack Blake gave us a call about the work he does with Matrix Pro Cycling & also gave us a few cycling psychology tips.

Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.

Jack Blake - Road to the 2015 Women's Tour With Matrix Pro Cycling

Team owner Stefan Wyman gives us a tour of Matrix Pro Cycling's team car & tells us whats going on in the car on race days.

Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.

Team Car - Road to the 2015 Women's Tour With Matrix Pro Cycling

Team owner & Directeur Sportif Stefan Wyman talks to us about the importance of the Matrix GP Series in the cycling season. Plus we get a brief race report from the Croydon stage. 

Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.

Stefan Wyman - Road to the 2015 Women's Tour With Matrix Pro Cycling

Chris Garrison makes the decisions at Trek UK as to which teams they choose to sponsor. Here she explains how the relationship started between Trek and Matrix Pro cycling. Plus we get a rundown of the bikes that the team are riding this season.

Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.

Chris Garrison - Road to the 2015 Women's Tour With Matrix Pro Cycling

Shortly before a stage of the Matrix Fitness Woman's GP Lucy Shaw spoke to us about the importance of these kind of races. We then heard from team mechanic Richard Meadows on his race duties.

Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.

Lucy Shaw / Richard Meadows - Road to the 2015 Women's Tour With Matrix Pro Cycling

We spoke to race controller Guy Elliot about the Aviva Women's Tour & the Matrix Women's GP Series whilst he walked the course a course checking for hazards.

Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.

Guy Elliott - Road to the 2015 Women's Tour With Matrix Pro Cycling

Before a stage of the Matrix Women's GP Series we spoke to Head of Business Development at Yellow Jersey Cycle Insurance Simon Lythgoe to find how Yellow Jersey started sponsoring Matrix Pro Cycling.

Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.

Simon Lythgoe - Road to the 2015 Women's Tour With Matrix Pro Cycling

With under a week to the Aviva Women's Tour we gave Melissa Lowther a call to find how she'll be preparing for her second tour. We also hear about her training, what she'll be eating on a race day and how the Dave Rayner Fund helps her within the sport. Plus we hear what it's like to progress from racing as a Junior up to Senior level.

Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.

Melissa Lowther - Road to the 2015 Women's Tour With Matrix Pro Cycling

With just a few days left to the start of the Aviva Women's Tour, we spoke to Lucy Martin on the phone about how she started racing, her move to Matrix Pro Cycling and what the riders think of the Women's Tour compared to other races.

Keep on listening all the way up until the start of the 2015 Aviva Women's Tour to catch bite-size audio interviews with riders, staff and friends of Matrix Pro Cycling.

Lucy Martin - Road to the 2015 Women's Tour With Matrix Pro Cycling

Listen in with the Tape du Tour microphone as we capture sounds from the race road side and meet fellow spectators.

We will be celebrating the road side spectator from the casual front doorstep observer to the motorhome dwelling tour chasing obsessive and everything that comes in between. So if you can't spare 24 hours to camp half way up a mountain, surviving on nothing but small packets of tour sponsored promotional sausages  with the hope to see your cycling heros flash by in a blur of luminescent excitement, with only having the very vaguest idea of what is actually going on in the days stage - then listen in to Tape du Tour as we meet the people who can.

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