Off-season Update

Well... my off-season has just finished and it did not go as planned. After the Moonride I battled a lot with a knee injury that started off being an IT band issue. So I went to see a phyiso to sort out my injury, however once I had sorted the IT band out I now had a problem with my hamstring, again after sorting that out I had another issue, this time with my peroneus muscle (a muscle that runs down the side of the leg below the knee). So with all these biological imbalances I have been unable to compete in my fore-planned multi-sport events, with all emphasis being on injury recovery.

Finally, 4 months after the event, my knee was pretty close to 100%. Just in time for the start of the build up to nationals. Just in time for a trip to the USA and Canada with my family, to visit my sister who has been working in Vancouver since February. Of course I took my bike along with us and got some pretty solid riding in, building my foundational training on some awesome tracks in the Canadian Rockies. We spent not quite 2 days in Jasper, AB and I managed over 150kms of single track riding in that time in the company of some awesome locals. Another great place was whistler, where I rode the most epic single track of my life on the trail 'Comfortably Numb', an unbelievable trail with a huge variety of technical elements. After seeing my sister off in Vancouver, I wasnt able to get much more mountain biking done, but I did some pretty awesome rides along the roads down the coast of Oregon and California.
It was great getting away from the daily grind and have some time to think about things. Now that I am back, it is time to kick it up a gear and get on with training and work, fired by a fresh spark ready for some hard yards.

Riding along the Oregon coastline...amazing!