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…
Hi, My name is Lizanne I am a sprinter And I wear long socks. Here are my top 10 reasons why! They Look cool. All those brands. Ten Speed Hero, 4Shaw and all the cool hashtags. #sockdoping #sockgame Keep my ankles warm and cozy on my commute They match my vintage bicycle They have…
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,…
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.…
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…
As for the lack of posts. Life has been crazy. I went into a Racing bubble at the end of May. I raced the Melbourne Cup on wheels, i then traveled to Adelaide for the International Track Series. Came out of that with some UCI points, i was 38 in the world for the sprint…
Last weekend John Kitchen invited Me and the Valley Wheelers (the retro guys I ride with) to the Bathurst Bicentenary. I rode around on a Penny Farthing, on the busy main roads of Bathurst. It even made the local news. This was my third time up on a big wheel, The first two being in…
Lizanne Wilmot 