Oh what is going on!

The last month or so has seen nothing but silence and I apologise. You see there hasn't been much to write about, the adage "nothing good to say don't say anything at all" applies here. I has quite frankly been a nightmare lately. I am aware that things travel in waves, good will follow bad etc, but it has still had friends at the recent races on "suicide watch" keeping the toaster and bath tub separate from me and from each other.

Thredbo National round saw me travel all of 20m before being involved in an "incident" possibly attributed to the hairpin corner 50m from the start line. Not kosher, but a regular fixture of the National series it would seem. No surprises each one of the races involving this setup has had an accident. Nothing broken, but a very large and badly bruised elbow kept me off the bike for a few weeks and needless to say, out of that race.

Onto Canberra, the last of the National series races. My goal here was to get a solid race in the legs for the Oceania Championships coming up in a fortnight. A familiar course, very similar to the Worlds setup and very technically challenging. Fine by me. Until I had a nothing fall on the very first lap, on the very first day, which put my lower back so far out of line it would see the pins lock up under any thought of pedaling. Race over, I was a spectator.

An emergency trip to my saviour Nick Wood of Chirosports, Kings Cross got me back riding again, in time for the impending NZ trip. I like their work and you should look then up if you need your body tweaked. Just mention that I sent you!

It was then onto NZ where the Oceania Championships were to be held in Dunedin. A new track and new experience which I greeted with great delight. A not so good warm up lap left me with a bent rear rotor which happened hard under braking and left me in no doubt that this brand of rotor would no longer be run on the front. The wheel locked up so suddenly and with such force that, had it been a front, I may not be typing with my fingers, rather with a straw. With poor form and a fun track I faded to finish 13th, purely for the points. I was never really in the race, but was impressed with how fast the U/19s caught me.