This video is a quick glimpse of the most interesting visual features I was able to document on video in San Diego before the World Cup. No race footage, I had bigger things to worry about during the racing…like racing. The new video is called California Dreaming, and can be found on the videos and photos page. There are also several other new things hanging around the site…go and explore and you should be able to find them, it will be worth your coffee break.
So, after many weeks of waiting and wondering, the CCA has finally decided my fate for the next few months. I have been sitting and stewing, training and hoping to hear if my partner on the track, Martin Gilbert, and I would be named to the Games Team. Today I got the news I have been waiting for. As I hoped and prayed over the past few months, we made the cut. After personal best rides in LA this past weekend I had done all I could to demonstrate my potential value to the team. Now that I have been selected I have so much motivation to make the most of my dwindling training time. Not that I wasn’t motivated before but, this will add to my allready boiling vat of anticipation for the season to come. Time to get down to business.
You can Find Details about the Games at www.melbourne2006.com.au.
So I have passed away the holidays with what I would consider a reasonable amount of holiday training. Got to spend time with my family, my new niece, and girlfriend. I got a new guitar that is slowly but surly becoming music to my ears, and got a few lungs full of air the way it was meant to be; cool, clean and invigorating.
Now I have gone through a temperature swing of about 20 Degrees. I arrived in California for a national team training camp to prepare for the upcoming LA world Cup. I was anxious to see how the last 8 weeks with my new coach had prepared me for the coming challenges. Well after a few days I am very excited about the upcoming season. I am enjoying the bike, and feeling more prepared than ever for the season ahead.
The season will be different for me as well. I look forward to working with a new team in 2006. Rite Aid presented by Snow Valley will be home for me this year. This team has a good reputation and history under the Snow Valley name and I look forward to a year of helping them build on their past success on the NRC stage. I will have more details and links as the year develops so stay tuned.
I have also completed a new video about the time I spent back home doing some motivational speaking and teaching with a grade 10 class in the Yukon. As soon as I find a fast connection it will be up on here. Stay tuned and watch for me and the rest of Team Canada at the upcoming World Cup in LA.
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