It's 'Women's Week' on Cycling Weekly: your guide to the training, tech and inspirational tales of (and by!) cycling's key women

From 6th-10th March, here at Cycling Weekly we'll be celebrating Women's Week, with International Women's Day this year landing right in the middle and marking the apex of our coverage on Wednesday, 8th March.

We'll be covering a full spectrum of cycling, from the training tips guiding female professionals (and a growing number of amateurs) to inspirational stories of female empowerment - from the women who've taken up cycling in middle age to the racers who forged their own way when the odds were stacked against them.

From motivation to mechanics, we'll be sharing the common bike-fit issues faced by women and smaller cyclists - plus how to overcome them - as well as guiding you through the differences between unisex bikes and those with women's specific geometry.

On the bike comfort will not be neglected, and we'll be going in depth into the science of sitting comfortably and sharing the best women's bike saddles that we've ridden and rated. Slight spoiler for the article: although having the right saddle shape is key, there are other important adjustments that are generally necessary to make.

And we'll also be taking you through our top kit picks of the best women's cycling shorts and the best women's cycling jerseys for comfort, performance and - for those lucky people living on more southernly latitudes - cooling.

This is all just to tease what's coming up - those may be the topics, but we've got a lot more lined up for each of them. Here are the articles you can jump into now and, for the ones which aren't live yet, we'll be putting the hyperlinks in throughout the week.

Fitness and tech

• Nature's Steroids: How to harness your hormones and improve your performance
• Does sports science only tell us half the story?
• Cycling and pregnancy: expert advice on staying active whilst growing a little person
• Club life: Why do some cycling clubs attract so many more female members?
• RED-S and cycling: Could you be affected by cycling’s hidden under-fuelling epidemic?
• Is 'women's specific geometry' a myth?
• Stock setups are often stacked against women and smaller adult cyclists - here’s how to achieve a better fit
• Female physiology’s best kept secrets: the keys to improving your cycling performance
• Female-specific nutrition strategies: how to adjust your nutrition at each stage of the menstrual cycle

Inspirational stories

• One woman among men: The incredible story of Alfonsina Strada
• ‘If I can do it, anyone can!’: Mother of seven on her cycling jouney from beginner to 220-miles
• Dr Hutch: Why women were the pioneers of bike racing
• Long read: The story of 'Madame Gray', who transformed women's cycling