Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Raining cats & dogs

South-east Qld is currently being swamped by incredibly heavy rainfalls.

Already last week I was beginning to complain about the rain... but compared to this week, last week was dry!  Training on the bike has been a mixture of outside, and the indoor trainer, but often I have come home saturated, since I took the chance to ride outside.  Sometimes you just have to ignore the radar (and the dark grey clouds above) and just ride.

Our patients in the last few weeks have also arrived soggy and wet. 

So much so, that patients this week have arrived with various improvised rain jackets, umbrellas, and towels!

I know we need the rain, but I think we are all hoping it subsides very soon. 

Especially with the 2011 Brisbane floods still fresh in everyone's minds, let's hope there are no repeats of this event in 2012.
By the way, the phrase "raining cats and dogs" implies very heavy unexpected rain, with dogs representing heavy winds and cats the heavy rain.  Who knew?

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Green girls have the Edge

One of the highlights of last weekend's trip to Victoria was seeing how well the new Green Edge teams are racing already. 

Sure, there were a lot of 'expectations' placed upon the new teams in all the races (mens, womens and U23).  But just because you are expected to win, doesn't mean you will. 

Lots of things have to go right on the day, to come away with the gold. 


And the Green Edge teams faced a lot of tough competition... just as an example... in the women's road race, they went up against girls from Jayco-AIS, VIS, Specialized-lulemon, Rabobank, Nutrixxion, SASI, Suzuki-Trek, and many other strong individuals... many of these girls had a good chance of taking the title away from Green Edge.

On a personal note, while my spectating this year at Nationals was award-winning, my own racing performance was definitely not.  A combination of 'not-enough-power' and 'not-the-right-head-space' led to my premature retirement from the race.  Not making any excuses though, I did a solid 3+ months of training and am happy with the preparation up to the day of the race.  One of these I days I still hope to get to finish this race, but it seems that for the meantime, I have a lot more 'living and learning' to do.
Photos thanks to Cycling News / WomensCycling.net.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Leaving on a jet plane...

But I do know when I'll be back again...

It will be a quick trip to Ballarat but hopefully a good one!...  Stay tuned.