Well the past week or so has been a very interesting one which included Forced rest days, topless women, Chocolate factories, day trips, wrong turns which lead to long bike rides and again breath taking scenery. I'll start with the forced rest day. I am suffering a little (well a lot) from hay fever, yes this place in wonderful but man the flowers are killing me, so I gave in and went to the chemist to get something along the lines of telfast. My French is ge...

Well week two of Base Camp Morzine has been a cracker. With a bit of bad weather to start off the week this did not dampen our spirits (pun not intended). I have been doing a fair bit of training and am starting to feel almost normal again sore and tired. I am loving that the pool is only 100m away from our chalet and that 4 days a week the pool doesn't open until 12 the other days it opens at 11. But this does mean that I have to do something pre swim. It has ...

This first week here in Morzine has been amazing. I have found my happy place. So I arrived here on Monday afternoon. This place so just beautiful, snow capped mountains, 1000m Altitude with some of the worlds best Up and Down hill MTB track, some of the best road bike trails with Col de Joux Plane just a short ride away. It was love at first sight when we where driving from the Geneva air port. After a little walk around town and another wonderful feed we went...

My next adventures after my race in Autun I headed back to Paris for a few days, then headed over to Rome. I have Some family in Rome so I stayed with them. I made it to Rome after a bit of a delay and eventually found my cousin we went and had a family dinner, from this point on I knew I was going to turn into one big pice of pasta after 6 nights. We all know how much I can eat, but this really tested me. But the food was wonderful. The next day we went and di...

So its been a while since my last blog so I am going to do a few. This one is about the race I did in Autun in France. This race was going to be my first international race ever. And boy did it live up to its expectation. This was a D2 race for those people who know what that means. So I had done not a heap of training being my first week in Europe and my diet had mostly consisted of pastries, Nuttela, Strawberries and Pasta. I jumped on the train and headed to...