Tour de Vineyards

2012 has just rolled round so i thought I would start off with a quick report on Tour de Vineyards.

Apart from the weather I really enjoyed getting stuck into some hard full on racing for my 5th TdV.

Prologue > I went in hoping for a good ride but knew that with not much intensity or time in the TT saddle that I wouldn't be that amazing. So i was fairly pleased with 16th @ around 1min 

Stage 1

I am always amped for this stage, after having results in the years gone. I managed to follow a few moves and make a few moves early on. But eventually a group of 4 slipped clear. I knew that it could be dangerous so i went on the attack and split a chase group off. 

We made contact after a pretty brutal chase, thus making it a lead group of 9.

I was not sure wether to back my sprint because there were a few decent sprinters in the group. So on the last lap when Robin Reid hit out on the climb I followed with Paddy Bevin to make it 3. I had average positioning in the final run in and ended up 2nd well beaten in the sprint.

Stage 2

No really action for the big Queen Stage, a decent break went of 9 and the the Peloton didn't do anything until the gap was way to big. So the break had a 4min buffer heading into the Bottom of Takaka Hill!!

I just took it easy to save for stage3 (down 11mins)

Stage 3

Wet, really wet.

The race started with a hiss and a roar, with everyone having a dig off the front. And it was getting really annoying going with a lot of attacks and nothing staying away.

Eventually the bunch got tired and i slipped into a move to get across to the small lead group.

Once the 2 lead groups came together everyone got negative and were looking to save a bit of energy. And basically Paddy and Yates rolled off and know one could respond. I was happy to roll with the rest of the chase to try and get them back, but everyone knew that they wern't going to be caught.

So i rolled in with the chase group 40sec down on the lead 2.

Stage 4

Finally it seemed as though the rain was clearing. So it was going to make for a fast kind of kermesse circuit around the streets of Richmond. 28 Laps!! (@2.2km)

I was hoping to get in more breaks and have a crack at the stage, but I was feeling average. I got in a few good moves but hit the wall near the end and couldn't really keep following the attacks. 

'A Pure Black trio got away nearing the end and were nailing just off the front when tour leader Paddy Bevin showed his form and jumped across with in half a lap and no one from the bunch could follow that attack'

I was happy with finishing in the group and happy to get some good hard racing heading into, Nationals (Jan 8th) and NZ Cycle Classic (25th-29th).

Tour of Southland 2011

Just got round to doing a quick update on 'Southland with Team Kia'

So got down there Saturday and meet all the guys and also Robin, Kay and Bobby and all others involved   . We started off with a team Barbie to loosen the atmosphere and mix and mingle.

Heading into Prologue day, everyone was extremely nervous but also super pumped up to get the ball rolling in the right direction.

We ended up 8th down 25sec. but we weren't to gutted as we knew it was early stages.

The rest of the tour flew by until the double day where myself and Alex Meenhorst slipped into the late move, this was only setup by George and Joe already up the road.
We set about gaining a solid lead because we knew it could stick. but once the gap started going out we had to be careful not to work with Chris Macic as he was virtual GC.

In the end we came down to the finish as a bunch of 5, I hit out with 50m to the roundabout, i got a small gap and then increased thru the corner but was caught out as the road inclined slightly, but Alex had 3rd wheel and timed his sprint to perfection to take an awesome win! (the first ever for Kia Motors)

The other crucial day was Friday, where powernet took there chances and drove the pace from the get go, myself and George and Alex were all caught on the wrong side of the split and chased but could never get back into contact. So that was tour over for GC hopes.

On the final day, we woke to hail wind and some kind of snowiness. As we drove out to Winton with the heater and music on full we were thinking and hoping the was no ITT, and sure enough it was cancelled.

After sitting around watching movies in the Winton St Johns, we all amped up for the 75km final stage.
I was very keen not to get caught out so drilled it up front from the gun. This turned out to be the best bet as I was in the right spot as splits were going all around.
I felt comfy the whole way back into town and I had Alex to lead me out, unfortunately we didn't rail the last corner and lost speed and positioning so got up for 5th.

To sum everything up, Amazing tour and awesome people involved.

Huge thanks to all my team mates, Robin and Kay, Bobby Murrell and Kia

'The Crash'

So as you probably know by now I had a pretty decent confrontation with a motor vehicle at high speed. It all happened pretty quickly with it only being with in 300m from the finish. I was basically leading a small group through a township (getting ready to sprint) when there was a car so I passed it thinking that the marshalls or whatever where dealing with it. Just as I started to pass down the left hand side it turned straight across on me. That was it, collarbone written off season pretty well over.

Just as a quick note, what the hell where the organisers and police at the event even doing having a car on the course, especially inside the last Km.

After that I went to the hospital in the near by city Gap. They mucked around for all of 4hours doing not much. When I finally got the X rays they said it was just a small fracture. So a painful 3 hour car trip home. After 3 days of a sore back and pain across the back of my shoulders, I went in for more X ray and check up kind of thing at the local hospital in Aubenas. After more waiting they came back to say that it was dislocated as well as fractured so they would operate tonight!

So after the operation it was pretty painful and they had me on the strongest drugs they had, morphine. I wasn't liking that to much and had a couple of vomit sessions.

So that's about it really so im now sporting 2 big titanium rods in my shoulder pretty cool aye?

Just trying to work through insurance claims, Flights etc and also trying to lock down a new team for next year. But with missing a months worth of FFC points has defiantly put me on the back foot.

Finally I would just like to thank Andre, Olivier (club president and DS) for all the help and running around that they've done. Also my team mates and everyone else back home for all the support.

Cheers

Kieran

Ambert Nocturne *Crit

So for this race on a Monday night it was just Esko, Karlo and I (plus a British guy called Ki). I stepped it up and decided to drive there. It was pretty dodgy cause I haven't driven the team car that much and am not use to the clutch, to make matters worse it was raining hard and we had to go on the mountain roads!

Any way. We arrived to the race with no hick ups. got our dossards(numbers) and tested the course..... It was still raining a bit, but it was warm (so all g). The course was fairly technical with a climb a couple of quick turns then a straight decent with a slow single file left hand turn to the finish. If you got the hole shot out of the last corner it was pretty hard for any one to come round you.

So I was taking all the primes just by getting the jump into the corner. The race had a lot of attacking and I made sure I placed my self up front for most of the race, just to cover the breaks. Eventual though the race came back together with around 10 laps to go. Ki was feeling decent and was throwing some spice around, but the bunch ended up swamping all the attacks. In the end I had OK postion around the last left hander and managed to grab 4th. Plus 6 primes at 30 euro each so not a bad night.

Got a race on Sat, Elite National so should be interesting...

Ciao for now.

KH

Alpes

So I've been a bit busy lately with training and racing. I will try and think back to a week or so ago, I had an Elite National called Charvieu chavagneux it was a super fast flat course, which i knew would suit me if I played my cards right.

There was a really strong line up for the race, the pace started high seeing it was bastille day and never let up.

The good break went within a couple of laps. but lucky for me not all the teams were represented up front. So it got dragged back eventually. As that was going on I made my way to the front and a split went off the front and that was it.... full noise to the end and I had a dig with 2km to go but got bought back then rolled 8th in the sprint.

After this was a race on Sunday... I recovered really well and went on the attack straight away. I was loving the wet conditions and dropping everyone through the corners. Once the good break went I bridged across and it looked to be solid until we were caught with less than 1k to go, I stayed well positioned to take 7th.

After this I have been in the Alpes (near Braincon) training and relaxing and also getting in a bit of Tour action. I also had a Nocturne crit in Albertville, but was really lacking energy and power for some reason (maybe the altitude training im not sure). So I decided to pull the pin only 50mins in.

So that is all really, just watched the TT at Le Tour was pretty exciting!

KH

GP les Avenieres

So we only had 1 race this weekend.........

It was a 1,2,3 Categorised with a few of the big teams there, I was pretty chilled out about the race this week because I had forgotten what a race was like!

At the same time my HR was pretty excited because I nailed a couple of strong coffees at breakfast (and i never drink it normally)

The race itself started in some decent heat and just stayed hot the whole time. I was first to attack and got away but never got a gap. Then Ki went over the top and opened a decent gap (shit yeah Noel). after this I just scoped out breaks. I got in a few breaks and just kept pushing it ahead so never had to bridge gaps and go into the red to much in that heat.

I ended up 8th with the initial break never coming back, but a few people cracked from the front break.

Thats all at the moment only 1 race this weekend coming so stay tuned

KH

Did someone say Crit Season!

Yup, its been a while to wait, but the nocturne Crits have started again.

Had my first 1 on,

Wednesday last week down south in Martigues really nice atmosphere and a super nice course.

Race started at 8.30pm

Not a huge field but heaps of Martigues riders so I knew it was going to be difficult to control all of them. I started out riding super hard and aggressive to try and split a group off the front but kept getting bought back by Martigues, after my adrenalin had worn down a bit I moved to mid bunch and sure enough the good move went away with 11 guys, so I tried my hand at a solo bridge but they were moving.

Ended up getting a nice little lead out from my team mate and got 2nd in bunch kick for 13th. Also nabed 2 primes!

Sundays Crit

Was another 1 down south in the region of Montpellier, we drove down on Saturday evening to stay in Olivier's (DS) parents holiday house. Early morning start still. Was another scorching hot day, so lucky it was a short race only just over 1 hour.

Not heaps to say, apart from it was a really dodgy course and guys were washing out and snapping bikes and hitting building etc.

I placed myself at the front avoided crashes and then me and a few others got away, I was struggling with the heat a bit, but thought I could get up for the win. But with 10 laps to go after doing a full 1km lap turn, I got jumped and didnt have the gas to get back up to him. I suffered around the last 9 laps or so to take 2nd.

Also after the race the FFC(national federation) wanted to do some anti doping.

Normally just a urine sample but today was my lucky day, Blood samples! So after a bit of waiting around (as per usual) I went into some dodge little kitchen to get the blood taken and then sent off.

Thats all

Just 1 race next weekend and nothing through the week which is a tad frustrating when everyone else is ripping into it, but thats life.

KH

Whats been Occurring?

Classique Jean-Patrick Dubuisson> 11th/12th June

After just getting back from Belg I was so tired, I was really just wanting to have a easy weekend of sleeping and taking it easy. But I'd already committed to this Tour.

As you've probably figured by now there isn't going to much to say in here.

So a quick run down....Stage 1 Tried to make splits but just wasnt happening for me, a few groups got away so then the Peloton shut down.

St. 2

TT with 2km hill at start, went ok got 30th 1min down lost most my time over the 10km on the hill though.

St.3

100km Rr

Hard 20km lap x5

A break went then got caught, I was gripping to the bunch.

Tour of Aurillac, 18th/19th

A week of trying to rest and get some decent legs. Then it was off for 4 hours of driving to Aurillac, we basically got straight out of the car on the bikes and the legs weren't in a good mood.

So the first day I was seriously hurting and on the GPM's I kept dropping off a bit, but luckily I have become good at descending rapidly. ended up losing around 3mins to stage winner.

sTAge 2

TTT 19km

What can I say, we dropped our Jnr rider straight away, and the had me and the other Kieran and another. for the rest. We over shot the first turn losing a fair wack of time. And get this some how we got 3rd only 26sec down......Gutting

Stage 3

Everyone had been saying how hard and mountainous this stage was gonna be so I was a little scared. Right from the get go it was all on. I had a few diggs to get in the EB but everyone was glued to my wheel.

Survived the first part off the race then got off the front to get over the GPMs and possible splits would be occuring behind.....ended up blowing on the final gpm and being past 1km from the top and not being able to hook any wheels. Me and the yellow jersey lapped out hard to get back on. But they were gone.

Then with 4km I look back, ohh and my team mate is chasing me down again. cheers mate

Thats about it for now

KH

A taste of Belgium

So I was heading up north for a Coupe de France, but my team pulled the pin (not having enough riders).

So I managed to rearrange my tickets, and a few euros later I was away. I had a few delays but luckily Alex was still waiting when I got to Deinze. It was cool to be in Belg and see how different it was to France. Had my first Kermesse on the next day, so was a little tired from travel etc. But was keen to rip into it.

The race started super fast and never let up. Like all kermesses, any who I got in the break that had around 20 guys. I did to much work and was really suffering in the last 2 laps to make the splits. but ended up 12th, not bad for my first Kermesse.

After that it was more kermesses and a few training rides. and a few epic nights!

All in all it was pretty cool, and to enter races is only 3 euro, and you can always make money in the races so im not complaining.

Got a Tour this weekend that I know has a TT, but dont know much else. Thats about it

KH

Tour de Beaujolais

This weekend 5 of the team were heading for a quick trip north to the wine region of Beaujolais.

From all the talk from previous years it is a really good tour, with everything organised really well.

This year was no different,

Stage 1

I got stuck in early on. Went to early and attacks came flying every where. I managed to scramble through groups on narrow hard roads until I made the front selection.

From there the next gpm saw a few guys go clear. and with all the strong teams accounted for the time gap shot out.

Attacks came as the group lost its biorhythm and then the finish circuit ones and twos going off the front I covered as much as i could. But was out numbered and eventually hit the wall and lost a bit of time to the other chase guys.

Sundays Stages

2

Put the skin suit on for the flat 60km stage.

Was fast to start off with, but then I felt the heat cooling off a bit so launch on the narrow roads. I managed to split a group off.

Went real hard the whole stage but did way to much and rolled 5th. Climbed the ladder on GC as well

Stage3

Cracked on the second to last gpm and they didnt bring the convoy through so i was screwed. rode around trying to find the way with one other guy. ended up going the wrong way a couple more times and doing 121km for 103.6km stage. Dont know what thats all about.

Pleased to get a hard Tour in the legs though.

Big June coming up including Belgie trip so stay tuned.

KH

Prix de Pont-de-Vaux

So I'm sitting downstairs at the Bar, its Monday morning and its time to think about yesterdays race.

Race departed at 3pm, was really dark clouds and you could feel the air pressure, as it was about to bucket down. From the start no neutral which was strange because there normally always is. I clipped in nice and quick and followed the first attacks from the home teams boys (bourge en bresse). A good little group managed to get away (maybe 10 or so) everyone was willing to roll through which was good for a change.

As the rain came down things got loose and a lot of the riders didn't know how to handle their bikes particularly well. I was applying pressure through the narrow (technical) roads in the hope of splitting a smaller group off the front.

As the race ticked over, another group on the road caught our group and this meant the group was fairly big and not going to be overly helpful in setting the tempo,

2 guys got up the road then another bridged, I knew that it would be a good move to be in with conditions like the were, I attacked once but got covered by the group, I waited a bit then after the technical section when it was strung out, I went to try bridge the gap that had grown quit a bit. After half a lap (4km or so) I had made contact with the front 3.

It took awhile for me to recovery from the bridge, but soon we all got stuck in.

1 guy got dropped and 1 strong man managed to bridge.

THE Bell lap: So coming into the final lap everyone getting twitchy, taking quick laps on the front. I got attacked whilst on the front and I left it up to the other 2 too respond. they did but did't quite have the legs to pull in this one guy. Then 3 of us started attacking each other to make contact with the front guy which was just letting him get away.

Coming into the finish looking for 2nd. I was in 2nd wheel and wanted 3rd wheel cause the strong sprinter Lionel Genthon was on my wheel. I let the wheel go in front of me to force him in front of me, he didn't respond straight away and the guy in first wheel randomly turned around saw he had a gap and bolted, Lionel was waiting for me to respond but I wasn't going to cause I wanted his wheel. But in the end I left it to late and rolled 4th

A little gutting but banked some points I hope!

that's about all for now, stay tuned

Kieran

DN2 Coupe de France, 2 and 3

Just a quick update to all those people out there reading this ramble.

Just got home at 1.30am, fresh from another hard windy day down in the south of France. (fun driving on the motorways!)

The race was really windy and had 1 main climb of around 1km length then 2km false flat and cross wind to the finish line in a village with a massive castle was pretty sweet.

Didn't get the best sleep at the F1 hotel in Toulouse with all the hookers making heaps of noise next door. So was a little sleepy, race was OK on the 5 big laps but the climb and drag to the finish was draining me. The 4th to last time up i got pinged off after the climb and game over. Another Dnf

I have been told from room mate Ki, that i was riding in the wind and being an idiot and if i had conserved more and ate more I would have been fine, so will defiantly keep that in mind for next races.

Also really disappointing at the moment with some of the team mates not committing 100 percent in the races. It really sucks for use riders that, just want to get racing and pull off results..........

The other Coupe de France up in Bourg didn't work out for me. As i put in way to much intensity through the week and had no PUNCH in the legs on race day.

Thats about it from me folks, enjoy this beautiful weather were have aye.

Ciao

La Boucle du Pays de Tronçais, with a mountains race

bonjour tout le monde

I had a race on Saturday. Was a 4 hour drive in a cramped car to get there again. Had a few strong teams. but the course was apparently not to hard, for the first 50km or so then hills

To cut a long story short, I was riding my usual style at the moment and attacking all the time and following. It finally paid off for me as I rolled off after a GPM and took a little group away. Then rolled through again and only 1 guy on my wheel. So we worked together and stayed away for 80km or more, the race ended up being 140km. My break away partner was Herbet the Latvian who I already knew as he was Georges team mate last year and I heard how strong he was. He was taking longer pulls and was defiantly stronger than me. Coming into the final finishing climb he thought I wasn't going to put up a fight but I hit out from the bottom as he hesitated. I got a slight jump on him but he eventually got on my wheel, I kept the power down full but he came off my back wheel and just pulled away a little. I was absolutely wrecked after that ride. Pretty happy with second though.

Monday had another race being Easter long weekend and all.

Was a special little race of 55km long. Just a climbing thing.

Had 3 main climbs, 1st from the gun 6km then a 4km half way through and finished on a 12km climb or something.

I was going pretty good, just rode within myself on the first climb. As to not burn the legs to much.

After I got back to the main group a break had gone. I took up the chase for our team. But i made a crucial mistake of going to hard we turned on to the second climb and i was already in the box from my chase so got spat out the back. Me and team mate Esko put in a good decent and then onto the flat chopping off each 30sec and bought back the front group pretty easy in the end.

As me and Esko got to the front group we both went straight over the top of them and made them all chase. We kept hitting them until we got a little group clear with our team climber in there, our job down. Only the 12km climb to go, was really pissed off at this climb as there was know signs on how far to go and that kind of thing. but managed to get to the finish without dying, so all good.

Thats about it, also will try and get more photos and stuff going if I can find them

Ciao

KH

Triptyque de la Vallée de l'Ance

So this weekend just gone I had a 3 stage tour.

I knew it would be a gruelling tour looking at the profile before hand and the quality of the teams present.

Stage 1

5 laps with a hilly windy circuit with GPM points and sprint primes to make it even faster, this stage was much the same as the previous weekends stage 1, heaps of attacking from all the strong teams and coming back together. So a lot of energy could be wasted doing to much in breaks and trying to ride across gaps etc.

I knew after last weekend that i needed to ride a bit smarter when it came to breakaways and doing to much early on. I was still riding up front and following moves but didn't burn all the matches so to speak.

In the last few laps i was scared of the pace going super fast on the main climb and me getting dropped. So i followed moves before the climb to get a buffer. Nothing really eventuated from that.

The second to last time up the GPM climb, there was still a 8 man group clear with 50sec or so, then from what was left of the peloton a couple of the strong men attacked, i knew straight away this was going to be game over once they got across. So i followed in the end i tailed off towards the top and 2 guys managed to go across then win the Stage and the tour.

I finished in the main group @ 1.06min, couldn't get a clear sprint and rolled 22nd

Sunday

Stage 2 (9.30am) Eeekk!

Only 65km long but with nasty climbs, I got in the early break but nothing happened as the main group had the foot on the gas. Second time up the GPM climb I was tasting it, but hung in. Again really insane finishing km's and couldnt get through the bunch to get amongst the sprint.

Stage 3

Was pretty much controlled by the Yellow jerseys team and 2nd on GC's team, I had a couple of digs at getting up the rode but both teams were on me.

Eventually a couple of guys were allowed to escape, but was pretty much all bunch time at finish.

So that is about it really, pleased that the form is on the up.

Not exactly sure what's coming up. Dn2 coupe de France start of May so should be good.

KH

Tour: Haut Var

So the team had a tour this weekend in the south.

We drove 2 hours or more cramped in the car in the extreme heat.

From what we had heard the stages weren't going to be too hilly. Which was going to be a welcome change for me.

First stage was 117km

Started fast and was splintering from the get go with riders not wanting to hit the wind.

I chased down a dangerous break of 15 and then went on the attack myself.

As people scrambled to get in the break riders where soft pedalling looking for team mates etc.

Eventually the group worked ok together, but there were still riders playing around. And heaps of attacks. I seemed to be covering all the attacks and the making splits to find that other teams werent willing to pull through.

To cut a long story short, I faded with 15km to go and couldn't bridge again.

Ended up 13th in the stage @1min

Stage 2

After so good zzzz's (recovery and all that)

Had a solid french breakfast.

Was keen to have another good hit out.

Conditions for the race were super windy and 32 deg heat, beating down on us, so i knew at once it was going to be tough.

First lap was fairly quiet, i threw in a couple of testers on the Yellow jersey and his team, had them on the ropes to get me back, but then no one from my team would attack over the top.

After the first sprint prime of the day fellow kiwi Alex Ray put in a really well timed attack.

I was right there on his wheel and 2 others. 1 from the yellow jerseys team, so Alex drifted him back to the peloton. I went hard to get a solid time gap, the guy that was with me was pretty annoying tbh and wasn't contributing much at all(but then got shitty when i attacked him)

To cut along story short, got out to a 2min 10sec gap, over the group and would have taken all 3 jerseys if the other guy had pulled a bit more, but in the end we were caught with 15km to go.

Finished up in the Sprint Jersey so pretty stoked with that but looking back should have taken more. Looking forward to taking some form into the next Tour and other races coming up.

KH

Transversale des As de l'Ain

Haven't done an update on the racing in a while. The race on the weekend was said to be flat. We got to the race and saw the race profile and saw some pretty nasty hills.

Any way no point going on about that. The raced started pretty fast and windy. I positioned my self up front to look for breaks and stay out of crashes and all the breaking etc.

I was very active in the first 80km as i wanted to test the legs. But that was the killing of me as when the first 10km climb hit my legs had already done a lot of hard riding.

I held on nearly to the top of the first KOM(gpm). Rode the rest in a small group of 10 then pulled the pin with 25km to go totally smashed.

I feel like the racing is slowly bringing the form up though, which is good as got 2 tours coming up this month.

Cheers

Kieran

DN2 round 1

Drove there,

The team was told we couldnt race as we only had 3 french riders and needed 4.

we protested it, we lost. Drove straight home 15 hours total driving for nothing.

Thanks FFC

thats about it.

Kieran

Tour de l'Ardèche, Day 2

TT 6km

So cold, rode to the start, got a puncture on my front zipp on the way there. Warmed up quickly beside a local supermarket, then took off, was extremely painfully with the 3km hill after the fast flat. Was 1min down on the Chambery guy who won so wasnt to disappointed.

Rr

Was going to be hard stage with all the hills, but didnt help when i thought i had a puncture, changed it. Was then onto small roads with a hard chase. nearly got back on. Then the bunch hit the next 2km climb. stayed in the convey and was hoping to pick my way back through the groups. It was just too split up to get back to the front after that climb.

So rode in the cold with a group of 15 to the finish. Pretty depressing day in the wet and cold when stuff like that happens.

So that was the weekend, pleased with the form so far and am looking forward to better weather next weekend.

C u

KH

Tour de l'Ardèche, Day 1

115km

Rain, wind, cold, about sums up the day. There was a few strong DN1 teams with full line ups that were just smacking it the whole race. Dangerous conditions in the wet but got through in the front bunch. Only 4 up the road at 10sec so will be interesting tomorrow with the 6km hilly prologue and the hilly stage.

Thats about it for now

2011 UC Aubenas

Just reporting in from my new French team for 2011. im based in the south of france in the Rhone Alpes region.

Really amazing set up here with great accommodation (at a hotel holiday resort)

Great weather and region for training. And really cool flat mates and team mates.

And a really good hard racing calender so will be a good test

GP serra de Liergues

First race 2 days after i arrived, I was really looking forward to it. But then i got tired and sick.

But i managed to finish even though i was freezing cold and i the box pretty hard by the end.

hopefully can shake the cold and back into it next weekend with my regions tour. Also was good to catch up with old team mates Sam, Clemont, Alex.

cheers

Kieran

Off season wrap

Just got back to France and am back in the thick of it. So thought its time to give a wrap from last year and the Off season happenings.

Was really pleased to get back to NZ last year after 9 months away from home. Was really ready for a rest.

But the break meant work. I was working for NZ trail solutions again but this time in Nelson which was really good. Was hard work swinging, but had fun riding the amazing trails that are going on there. So big shout out to my crew up there>Ginge, Dom, Adrain, Beddy, Tom, Kylie, Nick, Ropes, pete, Pat, Wyn, Dobri.

Also in amongst my work was some racing but my form wasnt really the best for any of these hence the results.

Finished working Mid Feb have had 2 and a half weeks of base training. Which was much needed. Also big shout out to the training buddys doing the Kms with me, TA, Joel, and GB.

Finally was really good just to catch up with all family and friends especially cool to see Uncle and Aunty, Simon and Lil who haven't seen in a while.

Thats about it really

KH