I hope everyone had a nice Christmas and New Year break or holiday. I know I did.
From the new year I have decided to give up on alcohol (which is easy to do) and chocolate (not so easy to do) until after the Olympic Games in August. A reminder to me of what it will be worth and what I am prepared to do in order to sacrifice and work hard for a result at the Olympics later this year. What have you decided to challenge yourself with this year?

It was Monday October 17th and it was late in the day. I had just gotten home from a solid training session when I realised I hadn’t checked the mail. I walked out the front, opened the box to a pile of letters. Bills, bank statements and an envelope with particularly impressive cursive print with gold trim forming the picture of the Australian National emblem on the back. “This looks special” I thought. “Best open it carefully in case it’s worth keeping”

Well it's about to begin all over again. The track world cup circuit kicking off with round one in Kazakhstan but before I depart at the end of the month thought I would touch base to let you know how the past few weeks/months have been going.

I celebrated my 28th birthday in September and enjoyed immensely the bunnings voucher from my team mates so that I can get some new plants for my garden. A past time I really enjoy. Training has been going well and steaming ahead through the Adelaide winter with a nice break from the cold where we enjoyed the warm weather and hospitality of the United States of America.

It is now the second half of the year but the very beginning of the season. One which will prove to be very full of happenings and it has kicked off in such a way.

After such a successful world championship and some down time with family it was back into training and the winter began to settle in. Adelaide seemed to be wetter and colder this winter than any I remember previous but maybe that’s just because I don’t like the cold.