Archive for May, 2011
Riding the Rollers
Riding the rollers makes you pedal smoothly, improves your handling, core strength and reaction time. You can do almost any training session on rollers that you can do on a trainer, but with an extra bit of spice. Yet many riders still find the thought of them somewhat daunting.
Commonwealth Games Gold medallist Rochelle Gilmore swears by rollers. Here she tells us how to get started and once you’ve mastered the art, some training plans and tricks to make you a black belt.
Download the entire article (PDF 1049kb) here: Rollers with Rochelle
Tour of Chongming Island, China: 2
Thursday the 12th & Friday the 13th of May. Stage Two & Three; 118.4km & 79.3km.
The tour of Chongming Island has been quite a struggle for me this year! Last year I had a little success here riding with the Australian national team. I was on the podium in the tour and finished third in the World Cup! Although, I did end up in hospital after returning to Italy, with pneumonia (fluid on the lungs) and a serious chest infection which kept me off the bike for nearly a month!
Tour of Chongming Island, China: 1
Wednesday the 11th of May. Stage One; 73.4km.
What a crazy day in my world! Today’s stage could be described as one of the most boring races we’ve ever done but in my world it was a little more eventful, or should I say challenging?
Luxembourg Review
Well, I’m back home in Italy for another few days between races in Luxembourg last weekend and Belgium again this weekend.
On Saturday and Sunday I raced in Luxembourg; the races were quite hilly so I didn’t expect any results- I was just going there to be a part of my team Lotto Honda and to get some good training in. I didn’t finish these races in Luxembourg last year so I was surprised to finish 22nd on day one and 8th on day two… a few more UCI points was a tiny bonus!