Return to Racing
I couldn’t be happier to be sitting on a plane. I am going racing! It has been a long time since I raced at Mont
Tremblant (2007?), so I am looking forward to meeting up with my teammate
Maghalie near her hometown and friends for an awesome weekend of racing. Not even the forecasted 35-45mm of rain will
dampen my spirits!
It has been 7 weeks since I was sidelined with a broken
collar bone, but I have been able to train well and progressively return to
what I hope is top form. Rather than
getting 8 days at home between two, month-long trips I got to spend 1.5 months
at home to recover, recharge and build on my form. Hopefully this will pay off later in the
seasonJ
Again rehab was 2 weeks on the trainer, 2 weeks on the road
bike, lots of athletic therapy and 2 weeks of mtn biking to get my back,
shoulder and neck muscles to the strength they need for racing and my sharpness
back on the bike.
Watching the World cups from home was a little tough, but
also exciting and inspiring. It was
great to see the women make all of the features and climbs in South Africa and
Australia look fun and effortless! …and I wasn’t at all envious of them
snorkling in Cairns… but we made parties out of it, had friends over and got in
some motivated training.
The thing about being injured is that often what you would
do with more home time…for me playing in the yard or deciding to start a home
reno before realizing it is significantly more complicated than anticipated is
that you can’t! Riding, at least on the trainer and then road bike was the
easiest thing to do so I did lots of it as soon as I could building up my
duration and intensity and for brain candy I worked on getting 2 more speeches
checked off at Toastmasters…one on living the Dream (#6 Vocal Variety) and one onBone healing (#7 Research a topic).
Go figure.
Keith and I took advantage of my added time at home to do
lots of “camping”, visiting family and
friends and enjoying the riding in BC. With the sprinter camping will always
be in quotation marks now.
Post ride Picnic on Shuswap lake. Beautiful day! |
After the outdoor riding began we headed to
Penticton for an Easter Road riding camp, and Squamish and Revelstoke to get my
wet trail mojo back. So I feel rested
and ready and eager for the season to get underway!
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and the wild horses the roam the neighbourhood |
Soaking up some Squamish camping at Alice lake. |
Pre-ride Pancakes |
Visiting my little niece (mom and brother) in Victoria after arm strength returned! |
The ever-growing Wilson family on Sue's Birthday |
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Blind Bay, BC |
Kamloops doesn't get any greener than this. Was nice to be home for all the trees in bloom and out before the lawn needs mowing....again |
Racing Tremblant Saturday and then Flying to Prague on
Monday. March 25th will be my
first World cup of 2014.
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