Ayup everyone, seen as it's Christmas time and approaching the new year, i figured it'd be a good time to reflect and let you know what i'm up to, what's planned and all that. looking back on this year it's gone quickly, i was lucky to end up in a nice town and be surrounded by great, helpful people. Issoire gave me some memorable times and there i met some people i'll always remember. It was a great experience living there and the area of Auvergne is a beautiful place that i will definitely visit again. However, after seven months i was chuffed to be home and the last few weeks have absolutely flown by. Straight after my last race, i took around four weeks off the bike, the first of which i did a camping trip around France with some friends. We visited the ardeche, where we did a 30km canoe trip down an amazing gorge, before visiting st tropez and montpellier among other places. It was great fun and nice to relax after being focused for so long.
I'm back on the bike now and have been for a few weeks, getting the pedals turning for what will be again a tough season next year. I've just got back from lanzarote where i was working very hard to get a kick start into shape ahead of a lot more training for next season. As for where i'm going to end up next season, i have sorted a deal with an Italian team called Sc cene Valseriana. They are a good team based near Bergamo, close to where my brothers team is based and so me and Josh will be sharing an appartment in bergamo and will be riding an almost identical calender starting in mid February.
The new team are on Scott bikes and i'm happy to be continuing to race on a Scott after they were a fantastic sponsor this season, along side Eureka cycles and Eureka cafe. They helped me this year by giving me a Scott addict r2 to ride, it's an amazing bike and i'm very grateful that they gave me the opportunity to ride one this year, so thanks very much to keith and Anne Peek at Eureka and to Scott UK! please follow the links on the side of the page to any of the sponsors that have helped me this year.
Thanks for reading, and i'll update again soon, hopefully with some pictures of interesting happenings while i'm out and about on the bike. Merry Christmas everyone and a happy new year!