A New Season Begins

The trip back to the USA was eventful that's for sure! It couldn't have got off to a better start, my plane was delayed for 1 1/2 hours in Perth. So I was stuck at the airport for over 3 hours, of which was from 4am, I could have been sleeping!! I only just made my next flight to San Fransico, but that was ok. I was so close to having a full row of seating to my self until this man decided that he wanted to move and jumped in my row...there went that idea! I eventually make it to the USA and then immigration decide to make my life hard even though I have a 5 year visa, "you have to be careful miss, doing this type of travelling, you can't just kept coming back every year. This visa is for people coming over for a few weeks here and there not months on end." My visa is a 6 month one, what a dumb arse!!! I get on the plane heading for DC and I have to sit next to a big fat man that was taking up half of my seat. I finally get off the plane and was so grateful to get away from planes.

The next day I get my new bike, it was so exciting, until I find out that it has the wrong stem size on it and our new pedals are really hard to get into. All was sorted and I went for a ride with Sheba (my team mate), it felt fantastic.

So we leave for the South East Crit Series know as Speed Week on Friday. It's at least a 10 hour drive and we have little Delila with us (Sheba's 3 month old daughter), this just meant that we made a few more stops and got in a little later. Our first race is on Saturday and we return on Monday week. During this time we travelled to Florida, Athens Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, back to South Carolina, North Carolina and then back home to DC.

The racing was really hard as I was trying to get my legs back. My legs were getting better and better each race and I ended up finishing the series in 31st (out of approx 70 riders), only 4 points out of the top 30, oh well. It wasn't that important for me or the team that I was riding well at that time as I was just riding my legs in, so there was no pressure. I raced 8 races in 7 days and travelled over 60 hours in 1 1/2weeks! I was buggered at the end that's for sure!

I'm finally over my jet lag and the places I got to see were amazing. Alabama wasn't really that exciting but South Carolina was fantastic...you actually got to see the beach! I don't get to see the ocean much here at all, so, it's make the most of it while you can. The weather has been very kind, fairly sunny with the occasional storm, 2 hydroplanes, 1 near miss accident in the car - due to some idiot in the pooring rain/storm wanting to turn with not lights or indictator on, and on the bike - that's just from some stupid chick that couldn't corner correctly!

Until the next race or road trip.