Eatmore Sprouts

YES!!!!! The best sprouts and greens ever!!!! I am really, really excited to welcome and send a huge thank you out to locally and family owned and operated Eatmore Sprouts and Greens to my great team of sponsors for the 2012 season. The Wakeling family of Comox Valley have been amazing supporters of island cycling and if you've ever had opportunity to race or watch one of the local island races you've likely met one or more members of this great family.

Eatmore Sprouts is a certified organic farm that produces a wide variety of the best tasting sprouts you've tasted. Pea shoots, alfalfa sprouts, garlic sprouts....you name it, they grow it....and tastier then anyone else!!!! Try some sprouts on your grilled cheese next time...YUMMMMMMM!!!

Broadmead Physio Clinic

I want to welcome Paul and his awesome crew at Broadmead Physio to my list of amazing sponsors for the 2012/2013 season. Paul has been my go to guy whenever I've had any little injury, or question since I've moved to Victoria. Referred to me by Melanie McQuaid, you have to know that he is going to be one of the best in the industry. Paul has put me through the paces with the extensive rehab on my shoulder and after my hernia surgery, and I can only imagine where I would be at in my recovery if I didn't have Paul on my side....I mean, this man really knows his stuff.

Have you ever had just a general physical assessment done?? Neither had I, but I was convinced to go get one done, and although I didn't have any glaring imbalances, he was able to point out a couple areas that I could stretch out better and strengthen better.....a very valuable tool for any athlete, professional or not! You may be the strongest, most flexible individual in the world, but there is always somewhere you can improve.

Paul McIntyre has worked with World Champions and athletes of all levels....and he's a cyclist so he know exactly what a cyclist needs!! Go get your physical assessment today, it could mean a huge gain just by strengthening one small muscle group!!

Thank you Broadmead Physio for your support in the past and continued support in the future!!

Eboost

I am extremely excited to announce and welcome Eboost Canada to my amazing team of sponsors for the upcoming season!!

Eboost is a relatively new, but pretty great natural effervescent Daily Health Booster. Loaded full of vitamins, nutrients and minerals that help "boost" endurance, recovery and immunity. The 3 most important things for any athlete. Or anyone for that matter!!

Lactose free, gluten free, sugar free and even yeast free, Eboost is a great option for everyone, even you picky eaters out there...ya me too :-) Eboost comes in 3 great flavors; orange, pink lemonade and my favorite, acai pomegrante.

I'm usually very skeptical about the health claims of nutritional supplements, lets face it there are a lot of duds out there, but this stuff is really something different and I'm really excited to be apart of the team.

Where can you get you're Eboost???? Order it online or in store at Popeye's Canada. Or hunt me down for a sample. Thanks Jason Binab for turning me on to this stuff and thank you Matthew Clayton for supporting me with my dream!

Shoulder Update

YESSSS!!! It's a big day for me and my shoulder, I did my first set of 5 real, that's right, REAL, push-ups since October. It's been really slow progress, a lot slower then I would like, but I think I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel with this injury. Final diagnosis was tendonitis in the rotator cuff (still possible cartilage tear..YUCK)....to go along with my separated shoulder. I've had very healthy tendons and never had the pleasure of dealing with tendonitis like this before. I'm currently 4 months since my crash and finally getting to the point that most movement is painless...not 100% yet.

Paul from Broadmead Physio in Victoria, has been putting my shoulder through the paces to diagnose and "repair" the damage. Who knew a 2 pound weight could be SOOOO heavy! Thanks to Alex and Yves for setting up my MRI and getting me in. As well, Melanie aka RacerGirl's Shoulder Prehabilitation episode has been a great addition to my rehab.

Look out, soon I'll be swimming again....or at least learning how not to take 40 mins to go 1km!!! Ouch, that really was slow.

2012 Island Cup XC #1 Course Preview from Pro City Racing on Vimeo.

Awesome fun day of riding at the dump with and Rob Parkin made for a great preview of the first Island Cup race of 2012 just outside Victoria, BC. Great clip Rob!!

Island Cup #1

It's that time of year again!!! Or just about. March 11th is the first cross country race of the year, Island Cup #1, out at the Hartland Dump hosted by none other then the fantastic crew at Trek Bikes Victoria .

And look, I'm the poster girl..lol..now you have to do it!!!

MY GOALS

So I'm putting it out there in writing for everyone to see now!!! So you can all hold me to my word ;-)

I've been focused on the Olympic distance cross country mountain bike racing for the duration of my career. The Olympics was my ultimate goal, but I've realized it may not be realistic at this point because Canada has 3 women within the top 7 in the World!!! Canadian women are the fastest in the World!!! I'm actually extremely excited to start moving my racing career in a slightly different, but no less challenging and commited direction.

For this summer, 2012, I'm moving my focus to the large stage races, such as Transrockies and the Furious3 series. These events are very fun and challenging at the same time, bringing a large number of people from all walks of life together with the common passion of cycling. Defending my title as Queen of the Rockies and breaking into the exciting new Furious3 series are tops on my list for the summer.

Fall and winter of 2012/2013 are going to be focused on the wonderfully goofy sport of cyclocross with World Championships being on North American soil for the first time ever! Being on the top podium in Louisville, Kentucky come January is my ultimate focus for this upcoming season. I'm going to use my summer of stage racing, along with all the fantastic UCI races in North America such as the USGP series, to get there.

My Xterra goals are going to pushed to the side for 2012, due to my cyclocross focus on World Championship, but I'm going to spend the summer refining my swimming and running so that I can hit the 2013 season full storm. The rumor mill has it that Xterra is scheduled to make an appearance in the 2016 Olympic summer games, and that's where I want to be!

Beyond the upcoming season, I'm going to continue pursuing these great stage races and expand my scope. Stage races have an amazing atmosphere that seems to make me fall more in love with cycling every time I race! As well, I'm going to continue pursuing the fastest growing discipline in cycling, cyclocross, with the goal of being National Champion and World Champion. Last but not least, Xterra Racing is hot on my list, which is also an extremely fast growing side of triathlon, working towards World Championships in Hawaii and the 2016 Olympics.

Join me on my journey and help me out if you can :-)

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