Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein

well, the world cup has been and gone, friday was ip day, and i did everything i could and got 5th, fastest ive ever been on this track so cant complain, got alot of good points for the world cup rankings so all good. i finally felt like i had the legs again that have been missing for the last year or so since my crash in the tour of southland, and didnt die off during the ride which was nice. next day we had the tp, and it started well then went to shit pretty early on, we lost a guy after 2km, so our last km wasnt to hot and we got tenth. was a bit disappointing but sometimes shit just falls down. and that was my world cup done!! packed up all my stuff yesterday, and am now sitting in the koru lounge in LA waiting for the big bird to take me home. got about a week before wellington tour, which im riding with the nz track team, then i may be going to copenhagen world cup, but not sure yet, then track nats!! all systems go for the next wee while. gotta say today at LA the security and check in was remarkably painless!! for once nothing really seemed to be a problem and things flowed smoothly and we got all our stuff through, and no one bitched or whinged or moaned! what a nice change here from the airport security staff!!! right gotta go board a big plane

well this has been a long time coming, im currently over in LA preparing for the world cup, which starts on friday(sat nz time)
everything has gone really well so far, had a pretty good tour of nelson, apart from my cranks literally falling off the last few days, which kinda sucked, thank christ there was a wheel van following us otherwise i would have been right royally screwed and would have had to bike one legged all the way back to nelson. so all in all it was a great tour, great weather and it was mint at hotel tye. i ended up riding in the morning before all the stages, or on the erg doing power efforts so all in all it was a great time, ended up swimming at the local swimming hole every afternoon with the hotel tye crew, me, dayle cheatly, cath(big lips)cheatly, and dale the snail.

i flew straight from blenheim down to invers after the tour, for track boot camp. was a mint camp, everybody got on well together and stayed at a pretty mint pad at the admiral court motel, all in the one house. it got a touch messy as you can imagine with 7 guys under one roof but was managable

greg henderson has just informed me, to tell you readers that he really does love his bicycle. there you go.

on from there we flew out to LA and the big flight, where i seemed to leave my legs in the overhead storage compartment yesterday, where i was absolutely creeping in training trying to do o2 pedalling efforts, where i spent the whole session with my legs telling me to get stuffed, had to pull out all the old school tricks last night, deep massage, a hell of a lot of stretching, legs up against the wall, everything. and today i can report thank christ it worked, as my legs got back to normal service.

got an easy day tomorrow then hitting out in the ip on friday, ill put up some photos and all that tomorrow and a few more stories.

phew, right time for a powernap