So here we are...
This is my blog, my story, my life... Call it what you like. Over the next year or so, if not longer, these pages will chart my life on two wheels, and all the stuff that gets in the way!
For those of you who don't know me, I'm a 20 year old third category bike racer. By bike of course I mean bicycle, it makes me laugh how often people mistake the former for motorcycle racing. I mean c'mon! As if my Dad would have ever let me get into that! I've been slowly drawn deeper and deeper into this sport over the past three and a half years to the point where I pretty much eat, breathe and sleep cycling. There is not a day that goes by when I don't think about cycling. Just ask my friends, they're sick of me going on about it all! But on top of this, I also study Building Surveying at Kingston University. As at the end of the day, I'm not going to be a Pro, so one day, I'm gonna have to get a job, unfortunately. And of course balancing the student life with the bike, and a (rollercoaster) love life, and earning some money here and there in my job at the Chalk Lane Hotel here in Epsom. So, it's all pretty busy really...
This year has seen some incredible highs and lows. 'Almost' winning a race, riding with the Liquigas Pro Cycling team the day before the Tour de France kicked off in London in July (wow! still can't quite believe that one!), riding into Paris at the end of July having ridden 300 miles since we'd left London four days before hand. And there's more. But in contrast some of the darkest moments I've been through this year have been becasue of cycling, like crashing in May resulting in a shoulder operation that kept me off my bike for way to long. But at the end of it all, I go into 2008 having learnt much in '07 and so motivated to succeed, you wouldn't believe...
Next year see's me switching from club to team, a prospect that I am really excited about. Moving from Addiscombe cc to Trisportnews.com hasn't been quite so smooth as I would have liked. But I'm here now, and here's to a fantastic 2008. This year working as a team will be quite an education for me. I will go to certain races with the sole aim of working for John, to make sure he gets up there in the bigger races. Then when I have a free hand, I will turn it to making the most of an apparent ability to sprint to get a few victories here and there. The biggest challenge to me, staying injury free... Even as I write, im having a few little issues with my knee. Ah well, c'est la vie huh?
So, that'll do for now...
Adam
For those of you who don't know me, I'm a 20 year old third category bike racer. By bike of course I mean bicycle, it makes me laugh how often people mistake the former for motorcycle racing. I mean c'mon! As if my Dad would have ever let me get into that! I've been slowly drawn deeper and deeper into this sport over the past three and a half years to the point where I pretty much eat, breathe and sleep cycling. There is not a day that goes by when I don't think about cycling. Just ask my friends, they're sick of me going on about it all! But on top of this, I also study Building Surveying at Kingston University. As at the end of the day, I'm not going to be a Pro, so one day, I'm gonna have to get a job, unfortunately. And of course balancing the student life with the bike, and a (rollercoaster) love life, and earning some money here and there in my job at the Chalk Lane Hotel here in Epsom. So, it's all pretty busy really...
This year has seen some incredible highs and lows. 'Almost' winning a race, riding with the Liquigas Pro Cycling team the day before the Tour de France kicked off in London in July (wow! still can't quite believe that one!), riding into Paris at the end of July having ridden 300 miles since we'd left London four days before hand. And there's more. But in contrast some of the darkest moments I've been through this year have been becasue of cycling, like crashing in May resulting in a shoulder operation that kept me off my bike for way to long. But at the end of it all, I go into 2008 having learnt much in '07 and so motivated to succeed, you wouldn't believe...
Next year see's me switching from club to team, a prospect that I am really excited about. Moving from Addiscombe cc to Trisportnews.com hasn't been quite so smooth as I would have liked. But I'm here now, and here's to a fantastic 2008. This year working as a team will be quite an education for me. I will go to certain races with the sole aim of working for John, to make sure he gets up there in the bigger races. Then when I have a free hand, I will turn it to making the most of an apparent ability to sprint to get a few victories here and there. The biggest challenge to me, staying injury free... Even as I write, im having a few little issues with my knee. Ah well, c'est la vie huh?
So, that'll do for now...
Adam
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