Wet and windy....

Kangaroo paws at the Mogo track

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Working on the tan - the new year of the roadie princess

Happy New Year everyone!!

I haven't updated the blog for ages - I was busy enjoying Christmas and New Year, catching up with family and friends, and watching the cricket!

What's new?! After a random conversation about getting the most out of training with Ben Henderson at the Mr Taylor Hill Crit I've made a change to my training and am now following the Benny H training program... and have discovered my "inner roadie princess" (: I have been out doing road km's since Christmas and have discovered that I really like it... ha ha what a shock! I also 'discovered' the Uriarra/Cotter Loop. I know... I'd never ridden it before - how amazing!!! I was introduced to Urri-Cotter loop by accident. I was out riding and met up with Janie the owner of Lonsdale St - my fabulous sponsor. She was going for the loop and I really wasn't that keen but was having heaps of fun talking 'crap' with her so just kept riding. Maybe it was a diversionary tactic (: by Janey to keep me talking until I was at Urriara and was too far gone to turn around. I like a good chat (: Anyway, it was super fun especially the descent down Mt McDonald to the Cotter. I only had enough food and drink for at a push a two hour ride and by the time I was climbing out of the cotter I was starving. I saw a half sausage chucked on the road and it looked so good!! It was totally covered with ants and it still looked inviting... how funny. Anyway, I was so excited by the Loop that i was out the next day and many more riding the loop... see - there is a roadie princess in all of us!!

What I did onthe weekend avoiding Mud pies and Cow pies

It was a windy 'on again, off again' wet weekend. Saturday was slated for a road ride, but the time I got out of bed, the wind was howling so I went for a mountain bike ride instead. I rode from home to Stromlo and worked on my power into the headwind.

Sunday was pretty much a repeat of Saturday, so again I rode out to Stromlo with a couple of laps of Bruce Ridge thrown in. At Stromlo I did a couple of hill climbs, because that is just soooo exciting for me.

The wind was howling and you could see the flag standing upright at Parliament House. Even though it was so exciting in the wind, I kept reminding myslef it was so much better than being up at Illinbah. I have come across a couple of people that have liked it, but it is the most unimaganitive track.

Last year after riding through a bit of mud, a lot of cow poo, a lot of grass, and coming across a cow mid-race, I decided I was never going to waste that much money again!!

And this year by all accounts, it was 100% worse, and adding insult to injury, I think most people will have to replace the majority of the running components on their bike after the mudfest this weekend up there.

So yeah, riding a tacky track, into a howling headwind, and doing hillclimbs - baby it was so much more exciting than mud pies and cow pies LOL!!! One bright note was some really good results from the canberra tribe - so congrats to every one.

Love you long time!!! See you next post.