Slow time of year

November i starting to open up and you would thing the moist chill of the south coast would be getting to me. But to be honest the extended stay at home has been a welcome change to the last 6 years. I have been able to BBQ, cook all kinds of good stuff [...]

Life is as the unemployed

Well, you know when you stop doing certain things other motivation seems to lag…well I went into a downward spiral of rest after the Olympics that I am only now clawing myself out of. Rest is great but biking is better. I did a road trip up north and back down…thats right [...]

Pre Olympics YOU TUBE

I made this video before the games while training is Swiss to give some perspective on the last rest period I had before I started my final cycle of training. I could not put it up until now because I did not have a fast enough connection until I got home. Thanks To [...]

SO much to write about

Well I know I said I was going to do a blog a day after I finished racing but to be honest there just has not been the time…I have been to the Great Wall on a day that was covered in mist and rain…I have had noodles in the basement of a random building [...]

One Day Out

So I am almost exactly 24 hours until I depart for the track for my first race of the olympics. Not sure what to think…I am happy for th huge outpour of support and I have had the best prep I could have hoped for with the resources available. I feel ready to [...]

Arrival

The flight went smooth and I finally have arrived here at the games and other than me not having ANY team kit waiting for me when I arrived (some how I was not on the list…any list) everything is going smoothly. This will be a bit of a report on the state of things [...]

Off into the wild…grey??

I leave for Beijing in about 45min and the last 48 hours has been a little restless and a little full of emotion. I am VERY glad I watched the opening ceremonies from the comfort of my hotel room…there was a lot of stuff I just would not have seen as an athlete there…although [...]

Ride up the hill

A great day of training at the end of a hard block today…We have a few days on the track well on the track every day actually. Speeding around behind the moto and bleeding through our lungs and eyes. Sport is fun. We have been testing out the equipment and making sure [...]

Something is Arriving

So we are here in switzerland and all the stories about this place are pretty much true. The center is amazing everything you could ever need for any cycling dicipline and it is all laid out with the legendary swiss precision. The track is like a Mini world Cup track…everything is just scaled [...]

Basic Training

Things are finally starting to come together, I can view all my prep left for the games on one or 2 pages. The interesting thing is it is much different than a lot of the the things I have done in the past. I have a track bike built up with a [...]