Oh gosh. This will be one of the hardest things for me to write and express my recent news and the decision to retire from cycling. Writing for me is therapeutic, so please excuse the verbose entry. It brings me so much devastation to even say that two weeks ago I was dropped from the…

Balance (noun) An even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady A situation in which different elements are equal or in the correct proportions Of course, when we ride a bike, balance is the fundamental skill that is required to keep the bike moving forward. And philosophically we need balance…

I will get straight to the point with this entry, and it might seem a little blunt and brief as that is what mood I am in. I will be honest, it has been a stressful, disappointing, and disheartening two months. Since competing in the Hong Kong World Cup, I have not been able to…

Bumps in the road make the journey more interesting and worth it…. I would say that the build-up to this World Cup wasn’t optimal. Two weeks after the Cambridge World Cup I had a little accident on the track while mock racing. I collided with my team mate and came off the track, banging my…

To have a world class event on your home track is something I will never forget. It was thrilling to compete in front of friends, family and the local Waikato crowd. Cambridge held the second track cycling world cup for the 2015/2016 season, and it was a fantastic event. Thank you to all the volunteers,…

Here is a quick run down of the first world cup of the 2015/2016 season. After 50 h of travel it took me awhile to feel like my normal self. It was a blessing in disguise that our bikes unexpectedly took two extra days to make it to Cali. So although we still trained, I…

As the competitive season has kicked up another notch, I will keep this brief as there is much to do on the bike… Heading down south to what was my second home was exciting and a little weird. I hadn’t been down back to Invercargill in the last two years. It was so good to…

I was fortunate to have an interview with Dr Tracy Perry from the University of Otago who is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Nutrition. Tracy talks to me about my cycling career, my training, and my nutrition issues sport. I have just the audio file, but the interview talks to my website…

Hey there!Six weeks already in America; the halfway mark! Which makes me feel this is a great opportunity to keep you in the loop with how things have been going here.We arrived at the end of May to settle into our ‘homes’ at the Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. A great set up of apartment/dorm style…

I thought I would give you a quick run down on what I will be up to over the winter. I am traveling with the NZ sprint team to the States for 10 weeks to get in a very big block of training and racing. It is an important time of year for me as…

As you might be seeing a bunch of sketches and artwork on my social media pages, I thought I should tell you the background to this ‘other’ side of me. I did art right through high school, till I had the awkward decision to go to the creative or scientific side of life. In my…

Bonjour, As I write, it has been only two weeks since I was lining up to compete in the Team Sprint at my second World Championships. I would say that competition had been the most significant accomplishment to date. My last World Championships was in Melbourne, 2012. Three years later I was in the NZ…

The biggest NZ pinnacle event of my cycling season has come to an end. Even though I was not crowned a National Champion and gained less medals, I would say that I am in a much better state than this time last year. This blog entry is more of a philosophical reflection on the weekend’s…

It has been just over a week since we started racing in Colombia. Time is flying by! We spent around a week Cali to compete in the final World Cup of the season to gain valuable qualification points for future events. It was a great trip, with a mixture of new and old faces. We…

I have done a far bit of traveling in the last two months. After coming back from Mexico we were given the opportunity to race in the next World Cup. This was held in London at the 2012 Olympic Velodrome, 5-7th December. Looking back in my diary, we only had 13 training days in between…