Author: LizanneWilmot

2015 Canadian track Championships- day 1&2 report

And here it is the highly anticipated race reports from days 1 and 2 at the last Canadian track nationals.  I have a few blog posts to upload so it’s going to be a bit of rapid fire.  I’ll start with this one, and hopefully get a few more up in the next week. enjoy!… Continue reading 2015 Canadian track Championships- day 1&2 report

Behind the Photo Finish- Keirin Gold

The day started like the two before.  Restless sleep, poor eating, totally wired.  I seem to put so much stress on myself when I race.  I’ve gotten better; I used to get those nervous butterflies every Friday afternoon before RAW.  But this being nationals, and me being on the other side of the world, the stakes were… Continue reading Behind the Photo Finish- Keirin Gold

Just Incase- Traveling with the bike

Over the last few years I have been traveling for and racing/training. In this time I have forgotten or broken almost everything. As a result my track kit bag is fully stocked for almost any just incase moment. And the packing if my travel bag is now a fine art. Besides normal cloths and packing,… Continue reading Just Incase- Traveling with the bike

The Skinsuit

I see your sock game and raise it to skinsuit. Not only is a skinsuit the only appropriate thing to wear on the track/cyclocross/crit course, it instantly let’s everyone around you know you are a total bad ass. I was told when I first started track I needed to get one. So the club order… Continue reading The Skinsuit

Race Report- Melbourne Cup on Wheels

Ok, It’s Friday, well not really.  It’s Thursday and I’m down in Melbourne tomorrow for Training (Track Torque) and catchin’ up with my Victorian Sprinting Peeps.  Therefore no work tomorrow and today is now Friday <—- you’r welcome! So instead of editing and making all pretty, here is a ride report directly from my brain in… Continue reading Race Report- Melbourne Cup on Wheels

Train-Ing

Just incase you missed it.  I ride bikes.  I ride in all conditions, and I ride everywhere.  I don’t do it because I want to get fit, it’s not an environmental issue, I don’t do it for training (most of the time) I ride because that’s what I do. Plus, I don’t have a drivers… Continue reading Train-Ing

Ode to the big dog!

Spinning is winning– I donno.  Been there done that, it sucks. pain face while doing 10sec no resistance sprints Earlier, I mentioned Sprinting is a cult.  Within this cult there is a small group of extremists.  When other’s join us, people refer to it is sipping the kool aid.  It’s a small group, a few voices,… Continue reading Ode to the big dog!

The retirement of Pikelet- a trubute

Now before you all panic, I’m not getting rid of my pink bike.  I’m just getting a new frame in the same pink. So Pikelet came into the world in September 2012 when i decided I was ready to get ‘serious’ about this whole riding thing.  Before Pikelet I was riding an old Kerry Hopkins Steel frame.… Continue reading The retirement of Pikelet- a trubute

Sprinting is a cult

We are a mis-understood bunch. We have a reputation for eating and being lazy. If you blink, the effort is over and we are back, half cooked, changing gears for the third time, when the enduros have hardly warmed up. Sprinters, especially track sprinters are seen as the boofheads of the sport. Fast on the… Continue reading Sprinting is a cult