2020, What a year. Nothing represents the ups and downs of the year like my Strava account. I was plodding along, slugging it in the gym. After signing onto Tesseract a few months earlier, racing (and doing well) in a few CL1 track races, I was on track to get a start at one of…
Here’s the deal
*7 different velodromes
*8 Carnivals
*Minimum 32 races!
*2 Cities
*14 days
Sound too good to be true? Want in? Well Christmas has come early, and I can tell you, this track cycling Christmas stay-cation is the place to be.
Part 2- Life’s a Keirin
Being an athlete has taught me… If there is one thing being an athlete has taught me it’s; Knowing how to motivate yourself to keep going after you’ve cracked. Physically, mentally, socially. Being resilient enough to find the motivation to keep moving forward when you feel like you have nothing left to give. I practice…
and I’m damn proud of it! But in Cycling it’s one of the hardest things for me to do. You see, me being an expat in Australia has set me up for isolation. I’m too Canadian for the Australians and too Australian for the Canadians. This leaves me in this constant state of limbo. Sometimes…
Winter is over and the Australian shops have put up their Christmas decorations. This can only mean one thing, 50 days until the Sydney Christmas Carnivals!!! But unlike Christmas, have no fear. The Christmas carnivals are smack dab in the middle of the track season. And a perfect launch pad for perfecting speed before the…
This injury sucks. It happened at a bad time, actually it happened just before one of the most exciting times for me to be on a bike. In a moment, everything I had worked for was gone. I was on the side of the road, dripping blood, and my season was over. At this point,…
I’m 99 days post surgery. And for anyone asking, no I’m not better, I’m not racing till April, and ish for being allowed to ride my bike. It’s hard because I look fine. My scars are even disappearing. But internally I have no idea if the magic tendon ferries are busy healing, or if they…
Winter Is Coming Last week the long anticipated announcement of RAW track 2016 was reviled. Although stingy on details the first night has been announced for June 17th and we can fill in the blanks for the location being Dunc Gray velodrome, the usual format of warm up scratch, special wheel race, sprint race, enduro…
*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…
Lizanne Wilmot 