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A cheeky Friday afternoon ride makes me feel good Last week I was fortunate enough to be a part of a presentation delivered by Rowena Palmer Morgan.  You may know Rowena as she has been a part of our CP team for some time and is a regular at our CP group rides.  Rowena is a […]

So the last 10 days have been very quiet.  After being able to slowly get back into exercising, my lungs decided to pack it in and I developed a chest infection, which I am only just getting over now.  I did however get out for my first mountain bike ride with my brother and it […]

There are first times for everything, first trip to China, first international adventure race and first DNF. Only three weeks before the start date the Greenhorns discovered we were invited to China to race the Xtrail Altay Expedition, a 500km adventure race involving navigation, trekking, mountain biking, kayaking, rafting and a mystery activity. Xtrail had […]

With each new day comes a different challenge – that’s what makes life so interesting. My challenge on Sunday was to get out of bed after a really fun afternoon/evening attending a friend’s wedding, and head out on my bike for my training session. It is fair to say I thoroughly enjoyed myself at the […]

Call me a geek, but I love learning! I am always fascinated by new information and enjoy continuing to fill my fountain of knowledge! So last week when the opportunity came up to participate in an Anaerobic Threshold Cycle Test, I of course put my hand up. Thanks to Steve at University of Canterbury, this […]

The highlight of my training last week was sharing my Saturday long ride with someone else. Julz, one of our awesome Team CP members and an all-round super cool person (who kicks arse on the bike!) is also training hard at the moment, and kindly let me tag along on her flat ride over the […]

The restlessness at the beginning of the day, working away on everything but my fitness, and riding home over a railway bypass that felt more difficult than usual highlighted the need to get a goal, a Big Hairy Audacious Goals (B-HAGS), and fast.   In the nature of my work coaching there’s always something, a race […]

Team CP Backroad 100 North Canterbury, 8/9 April 2017. After a week of wet and stormy weather, I was super excited to see a clear sky and the stars shining when I got up on Saturday morning, ready for our 100km back road cycling adventure. We set off bright and early from Christchurch in two […]

I like to think I had a fairly moderate summer of racing compared to my usual. I did half, if not less than, my usual amount of guiding down the Waimakariri River (preparing others for Coast to Coast) and had an awesome summer of racing by finishing second in the mixed tandem category of that […]

It’s amazing how three short weeks in a row can make such a difference to my normal routine.  Before I know it, it is the second week of May and suddenly my event is only 10 weeks away! After a long weekend, then two weekends away working, plus a week working on the Hawke’s Bay […]