Making outdoor spaces safer starts with you, Chad — I am a cis gender woman who likes to hike. Many people like to hike: trans people, Latinos, African Americans, cis gender men, gay people, queer people, people with prosthetics, people with two feet and two lungs. SO MANY PEOPLE HIKE. …

The self-blame cycle of cycling in a skirt. — Sexism in cycling is nothing new. Ask any woman in your life who gets around on two wheels, either casually or professionally, and she’ll tell you about the times she’s been mansplained at the bike shop (“Do you know the difference between presta and schrader?”), patronized on the MTB trail…

Six years ago, I built a bike. And it changed my life. Sounds pretty melodramatic, right? But considering that bikes are the most efficient machines ever invented, I argue they’re the most powerful tools for physical and mental transformation. For me, riding a bike helped me break a crippling cycle…

I’ve been doing “gym yoga” for years. I became more flexible, more relaxed…I even got some tricep definition from all those chaturangas. But I was completely missing the point. I’m thankful that yoga has come down from the monasteries of Nepal and into the L.A. Fitness's of Middle America, but…