Blog number 5 - change of scenery

 So.. The 'week or so' more in stoke has ended up being permanent. I've decided that moving here will help me out in the long run, and really looking forward to be starting a northern college in a few months !

Not much else to report other than back to London today for the Dave peck memorial tomorrow, one of the women's national team series in Surrey. Let's hope I'm not half asleep tomorrow after a load of travelling today!

Not looking forward to getting on a tube in about an hour.. But really excited to see my little sister after about 2 months ! Deffiantly going to treat her to a nandos tomorrow !

All 4 now

Blog number 4 - Northern bike riders

Okay so a few days in stoke ended up being a week in stoke, 4 days in Liverpool, and back to stoke now for another week or so.

Yesterday I had my first race of the season, after attempting a few attacks and getting a group away, surprise surprise I got a puncture. For the remainder of the race was just a major chase for me. Finishing just outside the top 5 wasn't the result I wanted but felt good knowing the season was fully back in swing!

Today, I headed out pretty early with one of my friends from Skelmersdale, and spent 4 and a half hours riding round the north with Liverpool Mercury. Proper nice Sunday ride in the unexpected sunshine!

Anyway, only an hour left on trains now, then I'm back in old Stoke-On-Trent for another long while!

Ciao

Blog number 3 - Got my brain back

after a pretty... intense few weeks i decided that it was time to get up and and give everything another good go, hence the extremely late blog!

im currently sitting on a train to stoke to have a few days away from london, with my  brand new team issue Aprire Vincenza as my only company, proper excited to do 4+5 hours on it this weekend :)

In other news, my team mates Julie, Claire, Lucy, Lydia, Jasmine, Anna + Hayley are racing the UCI 1.2 - Omloop van het Hageland and one other this weekend in Belgium, so a big good luck to all of them. TeamReem.

And on an excited note- 3 weeks till our training camp in Italy, looking forward to anything above 5 degrees!

That's all for now :)

Blog number 2 - Training camp in Spain

So after boarding the plane and leaving dreary England at half 7 in the morning on Wednesday, we were on our way to Calpe for two weeks of sun, sea, and a lot of bike riding.

After going through customs, being overcharged by a taxi company, waiting for a bus for an hour, and not a lot of warm weather, we finally arrived at our apartment.

We quickly unpacked and first priority was getting out in the sun, and that we did ! Me and Keira were extremely wary as just a couple of days before we got absolutely ruined on my team launch ride, so out we headed into 18 degrees sun, layered up, leg warmers, thermals, and over shoes, up a 7% climb for about 3 miles. Safe to say we were cooked at the top!

Couple more days down the line trainings going well, you realise how bad it is training in London, or really anywhere in the UK after coming to somewhere like here. I'm finally not a milk bottle either!

Tonight we've been out on the bikes, had a 2 hour sunbathe, demolished a Chinese buffet and walked about 7 miles, pretty productive day I'd say!

Night from Spain ☺️

First post and New Year.

Okay, so although were 25 days in, one of my 'things to do' in 2014 was to create a blog. The reason for only starting it now, is that every post would pretty much be identical 'ride work bed'. But this is the first weekend this year that's had a bit of a twist! So thought I'd finally give this a go.

This weekend was my new teams launch 'Velosport Pasta Montegrappa' , and I finally got to meet my team mates from far and wide! (Belgium and Scotland being the furthest).. And the others just living a few hours from London.

The weekend kicked off on Saturday morning in Putney High Streets 'Velosport', these being our main sponsor for next year, and there we had our bike fits, kit/helmets given, met a few friends of the team, and most importantly had a big glass of PROSECCO!

Shortly after we headed out in our fresh new kit to do a few easy laps of Richmond park, little did we know there was going to be a mental cross wind and Velosport owner Steve was flying from start to Finnish. (Steve lad) so much for the mega easy spin! After the ride we headed into clapham to a Italian restaurant and had an amazing dinner, so nice! Found out that you can have mash potato pizza thanks to Phil Julie and Lydia, which we are all going to be trying next time!

Sunday we had planned a long ride through the surrey hills, ending up at box hill for the final climb. From start to Finnish was torrential rain/hail/wind everything you don't want to come face to face with in the surrey hills. Aprire bikes owner Phil Dempsey happily sat in front of me spraying surreys gravel all up in my eyes, and from then on for the next two hours I was 100% partially blind.


With the weekend over, my kit tumbling in the tumble dryer, me in bed, and with a rest day tomorrow, I can sit back relax, and plan what outfits to take to Spain on Wednesday!

Also would like to say a big thanks to my team manager Mauro Pizzol, for organising our weekend  , velosport for allowing us to have our launch there, radio marsden for coming down to interview and also to Phil Dempsey, who doesn't have a clue how to use a garmin to get from A to B.



#TeamReem