A young woman has just cycled nearly 550km continuously without sleep. The mother of two children and manager of a restaurant chain, Bui Thi Phuc, a.k.a. Katie Bardsley, 32, still takes time to enjoy cycling with her husband, a foreigner, and their friends in the ancient city of Hoi An. The couple’s passion Moving to Hoi An because of the love for this ancient town, Phuc still remembers she gained an additional 30kg after giving birth to the second child. At that time, she managed to take back her body when she had yet to get married. Encouraged by her husband, she cycled with him in two years and has thus found her favorite sport as well as physical and mental change. To achieve best results, Phuc’s husband mapped out an exclusive training and eating regimen for her. “My husband loves cycling and he was my trainer right at the beginning,” she says, adding that he thought she is good at cycling with high health recovery ability. Phuc raised her cycling distances from 21km to 54km, and continued to increase such distances until she was confident enough to attend amateur cycling competitions. At the IRONMAN 70.3 held in Danang City […]