OCA Camp in Cali-for-ni-a

It was a great first week in Cali with the OCA camp. It was sunny almost every day and we got in some good volume (over 650km) in our 7 days of riding.  I also got in my first century ride of the year.

Team O



Now everyone from the camp has headed home and I’ve moved to Peter G’s house down the road. Two more weeks of riding in the sun before I have to head back to reality. Hope it doesn’t go by too fast...



In Cali!!!

We're finally here! After a five hour flight, we landed in LA and miraculously every bag and bike made it safe. The first week I'm here is the Team Ontario camp, so half of us are in the beach house (me) and half in Pete's house down the street.

The view from our deck!!!

After a big grocery shop and dinner at a local restaurant, I'd been up for about 21 hours. As soon as I hit the bed I was out.

Today was our first ride and it felt amazing to get out on the roads again. My new Madone 5.5 felt great on the trainer, but I really got a feel for it once I was out on the road and I absolutely love it! We rode 108km in about 3:30 which was perfect to stretch out the legs. The route wasn't too hilly but was really scenic with a lot of beachfront riding.

Looking forward to another great ride tomorrow!

California Dreaming...

After a week of dry roads and above zero temperatures, more of the fluffy stuff fell yesterday making for good work conditions (snowboard instructing) but not so good for outdoor bike riding. BUT the good news here is that in one week I'll be safe and warm in L.A. (well Oxnard).

Snowshoe into the woods for some hot chocolate

One more week of work and trainer riding until the sunny south. I've been making the best of it though with some fun snowshoe hikes and snowboarding.

Puppy love

I can't wait to get out on the roads and ride with everyone again. Will post again when I get to CALI!

Best Birthday Present EVER

So I got a huge suprise this week with the arrival of my new road bike (just happened to be on my birthday, how did they know?). Huge thank you to Trek and SRAM for setting me up with this awesome ride! My road machine for this year is the new Trek Madone 5.5 with full SRAM Force groupset.

Carbon Crank Arms

Can't wait to try out the DoubleTap!

Sparkly paint job

Even the cage is carbon

Birthday Ice Cream!!! PB Chocolate my favourite!

Getting Old Soon...

Got another solid week of training (indoors) under my belt and I'm getting really excited to do some real bike riding out on the roads. Exactly three weeks until the start of the Team Ontario training camp and I'll be counting down the hours.

My training motivation for the last few weeks

Too tired to walk

It's also just sinking in that I'm going to be 20 verrrry soon...

Joyride Women's Weekend Feb 4-5 http://www.joyride150.com/ww

Looking Forward to California!!!

Not a whole lot exciting happened this week, just lots of work and training. It's been nice having such a warm winter but I am really looking forward to riding outside. My California trip is coming up fast, I leave in less than a month and can't wait to spend a few weeks training outside. I will possibly be doing a couple of US Cup races while down south and am really looking forward to trying out the new race bikes! Here's a look at the X-Glide technology that is used on the SRAM XX chainrings.

Best snowshoeing partner ever!

Dusting off the XC Skis

Today is the day that I pulled out the XC skis and got ready for the first ski of the year. With sunny skies and some fresh powder it should make for some great skiing tomorrow.

I also got some new Nike Frees for running on the treadmill!

The puppy is also now ours! We are still on the fence about what to name her but Carbon seems to be the favourite.