WOMAN CYCLIST

Evening Post, Issue 66, 15 September 1936, Page 5

WOMAN CYCLIST

SPARTAN TRAINING SYSTEM

(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY. September 1. After a gruelling ride through snow and rain,. Miss Edna Sayers established a women's Bathurst to Sydney cycle record of, Bhr 38min 50see for the 126 miles. She left ■ Bathurst: at 6.15 a.m. in drizzling rain, and after encountering thi'ee snowstorms,; arrived at the Sydney Post Office at 3 p.m. with her hands and leg. frostbitten.! Miss Sayers said that she nearly cried with the sold, but the official, car driver came to her rescue by' giving her his motoring gloves to save her hands from the bitter cold.; She had been riding for a little more than an hour when she ran into the first fall of snow. Winner of 30 cups and four medals, Miss Sayers said the ride was "just a training spin." "Why, I ride a hundred miles—or close to it^-every- day of my life," she said. For 15 years she has played mother to five younger sisters and a brother. Every morning she rises at 4 o'clock, skips for half an hour, goes through a vigorous routine of physical jerks, prepares breakfast for the' family, then pedals off on her long daily spin. Although she had never before competed in a walking race, she was one of the entrants in the New South Wales 20-mile championship in " 1933, and won comfortably. But she likes cycling best. She hopes one day' to capture the Sydney-Melbourne cycling record from Miss Billie Samuels, of Melbourne. "I think I could cut a full day off her time," she said.