Training Update

..So it’s been a little while since my last update, but I’ve been hard at work training and making improvements on and off the bike.

I recently had a week long training camp down in Invercargill, it was the first one for the Junior Worlds team as a whole and we achieved a lot as a team on and off the bike during that week, The camp was more of a skills focused camp for the sprinters that a traditional camp where we go and absolutely smash ourselves, so for me it was great fun to do stuff we wouldn’t normally do for a change.

Flying efforts on a beautiful day at the track

Defiantly the highlight for me was on the first day the four of us sprinters rolled up to the fence for our first effort and were told to turn around and ride around the track backwards. It has to be the most freaky thing I’ve ever done on a track, as your mind gets used to riding around the track in one direction and the steepness of the banking doesn’t seem to correlate in your head how steep it really is so it doesn’t faze you, where as riding the track backwards almost has the opposite effect on your brain, the track seems way steeper than 45 degree banking that it actually is.

We also had an amazing team building day that I think everyone got a lot out of it. The exercises were different and I think that helped everyone to enjoy it that much more as it was a real boys day out on a farm and the challenges were physically and also mentally hard as you had to really think about what you were doing.

At the ball with Liv

My training outside of the camp has been going really well, its consisted of lots of gym and erg stuff, but also we’ve managed to keep using the track as the weather has been quite good to which has defiantly helped to keep me motivated as I love to just be able to get out on the track and to just do good hard efforts.

Outside of cycling I really haven’t had much time to be a normal person. I’ve been busy being a top level cyclist as well as trying to be a top student, something that can be difficult to manage at some points. I’ve been lucky that my coach Murray has been a tad lenient lately and let me go to a school ball which was good fun and it was great to have a night off being a cyclist and a student!

Roller sprints, always good fun!

I recently got a pair of Adidas Supernova riding glasses from Adidas Eyewear, I absolutely love them and they are the best pair of riding glasses I’ve ever worn! So if anyone is looking for a new pair I recommend getting a pair.

In the near future I’m heading back down to Invercargill for another camp over Queens

Birthday weekend before I head off to Belgium for worlds build up, but I’ll be updating you all on my progress before then! See ya!