Final update from Moscow

I finished the competition on the last day with my Individual Pursuit. It was a cold day with thunder storms and temperatures in the low teens and the track conditions were the slowest that they had been all week which made the gear selection difficult because it is sometimes a good idea to go down a gear when the track is slower, but I decided to stick with the gear I had chosen to ride and that I had trained on. With that aside I was feeling confident, fit and ready to race finally after 2 days off. I went into the race with the goal of setting a new PB, beating the girl who I was riding against and getting a top 10 placing. I did a 2.31 which was a second slower then my PB but considering the conditions of the track I was pleased with it. My time put me in 8th place out of 23 riders and I also beat the girl who I was riding against which meant that two out of three of my goals for the day were achieved.

About to start the IP

Also on the same day Georgia Rode herself into a position to be in the gold ride off for the IP and ended up with a silver just a second off the German who won. Fraser and Alex also got a silver in the Madison.

And that concluded the Junior Worlds campaign for 2011. The team was the most successful NZ cycling team to go to the championships, coming home with a total of 10 medals. It was a great experience and I have learnt a lot about myself, what its like to be on a trip to a competition that is of a high level like the one we were on and I learnt so much about what I am going to need to do before the championships next year. 

So now for me I am back in Auckland in the nice cold Winter weather. I am going to have a few weeks off the bike to recover both physically and mentally, then its all go again getting ready for the Junior Worlds of 2012 in Invercargill where hopefully the hometown advantage and my experience from this year will work in my favor.

Those of us who came back to NZ at Auckland airport