Sydney You Suck There I said it. I’m now going to have a whinge and be a complete sook. Usually I’m a confident city rider, but the last year has been tough, and a series of incidents has broken my commuter spirit. I’m going to start with, I don’t ride my bike to piss people…
If you are a sprinter, you will change gears. If you have a coach, it’s usually changing gears according to what they say. Race gear, race gear +/- 2 inches. Heavy starts, whatever. Eventually you get to know what you race on what you race on. Keirin gear, F200, heaven forbid, outdoor on a windy…
*I wrote this post about a month ago when I was in a low point. cycling, family, work. it was a perfect storm of me sitting on my couch stressing about life. I’m normally a fairly chilled person, so this level of stress really threw me. I’m still working through stuff, but life is back…
I’ve fallen through a few cracks when it comes to training. First of all I’m a sprinter, a female sprinter; we’re a rare breed. Training wise, I’m too old for the local institute program’s, to Canadian (and not quite fast enough) for the state program’s, and a little too young for the masters and too far…
Wow another winter has come and gone. It’s always sad when The summer track season ends, but mostly because summer is over, but the track season doesn’t actually end. I’ve now been racing RAW for 4 seasons. I made my debut in 2011. I was encouraged to race by my speed skating coach. She said…
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!…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Lizanne Wilmot 