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Hiya all well its been busy times lately, ive been coaching the young up and comers at Sheffield indoor on Mondays and Fridays. This is great fun and ive also had a chance to do some training myself. Much needed 20" practice. Ive been hard at work sorting out the sponsorship deals for the team. This is almost a fulltime job in its self?? We recently gained Tioga tyres, Vans & Be Well engineered nutrition http://www.bewellbespoke.com/ Some of the Shimano DXR cranks arrived in today and the full range should be available in the next couple of weeks..yes finally. My own training is going fulltilt, iam doing a routine given to me by Tim Buckle (bcf sprint coach) its a killer and i havent even left the rollers yet! Iam also doing stuff with Ged (aka Tom Boonen ) and i experienced the full horror of his SHOCK AND AWE tactics today.We set of on mountain bikes & hybrids and hit the icy roads and trails around Rivington Pike. For the first ten minutes i thought i was going to di

Heres my sweet new longer framed Supercross courtesy of Alans Bmx . I will ride it tomorrow at the indoor. its only got a rear DXR caliper at the minute as we are still awaiting delivery of the DXR cranks, hubs and brake lever. I cant wait, should be a lot lighter and even better looking.. Bling me up.

Well its really that time of year, you can see the light at the end of the tunnel but we are still in January!! Training is going well with regular Monday and Friday sessions at Sheffield Indoor for the BCF academy youngsters. I finally recovered from Loughborough (took a while) 6am starts and 12 midnight finishes! Ive been training more specifically now with the aid of Tim Buckle BCF sprint coach who had helped with some routines. Iam also building a new bike its an inch or so longer.Alumimum Supercross 20" It will be a beauty and will have all DXR parts on (thanks Alan or thank me) After not racing for 20 years then racing cruiser from May last year the 20s" are a revelation. Shanaze Read gave me some great advice she said "loosen up over the jumps and you will be fine!! Thanks Shinny just have to point out that iam 41 and every jump is twice as big as KING KONG and iam stiff because iam terrified. iam getting there though. Cheers for the advice.. Saw Joey Gough rippin

Hi all, ive just recoved from 4 hectic days in Loughborough at the coaching camp. It was designed to give young aspiring athletes an insight into what it will take to get into the olympic team and maybe realise there dreams of a medal. As i said Kelly Holmes(double olympic medal winner) was there and Guin Batten (an olympic silver medal rower)plus a host of other accomplished medal winners and hopefuls. Our boys on the talent team squad were split into groups and given the names Athens,Sydney,and London after past and future olympic games (funnily enough) After the workshops we did our own training mixing with the other athletes from a range of sports. Lewis Lacey is suffering from problems with his wrist but still gave it 100%, all the rest of the fellas worked really hard on a punishing schedule of turbo training, circuit training, gate practice (in the fantastic indoor 100 metre runnning track, the first time bmx bikes have ever seen this hallowed turf) We got some funny looks from

Okay, iam back from the mother of camps. It was held in Loughborough university and was for cycling (track sprinting and bmx,) rowing,trialathon,canoeing,sailing. I will give a full report tomorrow but for now here's some pics.Dame Kelly Holmes attended as did a few other olympic athletes to give there insight into what it takes to make the finals!! Tough training was the order of the day and Porridge and water!! yes you read right, will stick in more tomorrow see ya Mike

Hi to everybody to who reads my blog. Merry xmas and happy new year.!!.. Apologies for no new entries in a few weeks but ive been busy doing rather than saying !!! Ive started sessions with the BCF academy guys and girls at Sheffield indoor (MON & FRIDAYS) and also myself and Jez Hayes(talent team manager) have been busy with a camp in Castleton with the BCF talent squad. (Pics coming soon) This was a week long affair with Shanaze Read, Lewis Lacy, Dan Price, Dan Thorne, Luke Tamblyn all being put through there paces for 5 solid days. Shanaze was "winding down" but still squatted 120 kg for 4 reps in the gym session. ( my hats off to you Shanaze you are a fine athlete not sure about the starbucks music though.. he he!!) We did sessions at the indoor, check video clips of Lewis Lacy taking it apart (sorry its so dark) and Liam phillips showing the practice gate who is BOSS !! ( nice one Liam) We did some great road rides in sub zero temps. This was cold icy hard work. The