Ive been back working full time to pay off the last couple of seasons debt from racing and im almost all squared up even with the purchase of an 08 RMZ250 to keep me entertained while im at home!
As some of you may know ive signed a deal to race the full world cup series next year, its a dream come true to finally be getting paid and not have to deal with anything except training and racing. For those of you who don't know about it there will be an official press release out in December with all the details so youll have to wait untill then.
With everything set for next season already im really motivated and ive been training harder than ever so hopefully it all comes together for me. Its such a huge weight off my shoulders not having to deal with anything like previous years and has really let me focus on my training for once.
Ive been riding a bit of downhill back here but unfortunately im going to be having a few weeks off the bike, not by choice but for a couple of reasons. Ive been asked to send my Ironhorse Sunday back early so I wont have a bike untill my new team sends me out a bike early next year and also because yesterday we had the 2nd round of the Top of the south DH series on the Kaka Hill track here in Nelson, after a bit of rain I decided to take it easy for my first race run which didnt work out to well as you can see in the photos...
After 3 and 1/2 hours at the Hospital I left with 5 internal stitches and 12 holding it together on the outside! The cut was aparently to the bone in spot so now I can't really use my left arm for much for a couple of weeks. Luckily nothing is broken which is a bonus so once the stitches are out ill be back into action again.
Because of my bike situation it doesn't look like ill be making it to any of the North Island DH rounds so my first race back will most likely be the Dunedin round of the Nationals. This also means ill get to spend a bit more time at home this summer which will be good to get in some spear fishing and wake boarding.
As some of you may know ive signed a deal to race the full world cup series next year, its a dream come true to finally be getting paid and not have to deal with anything except training and racing. For those of you who don't know about it there will be an official press release out in December with all the details so youll have to wait untill then.
With everything set for next season already im really motivated and ive been training harder than ever so hopefully it all comes together for me. Its such a huge weight off my shoulders not having to deal with anything like previous years and has really let me focus on my training for once.
Ive been riding a bit of downhill back here but unfortunately im going to be having a few weeks off the bike, not by choice but for a couple of reasons. Ive been asked to send my Ironhorse Sunday back early so I wont have a bike untill my new team sends me out a bike early next year and also because yesterday we had the 2nd round of the Top of the south DH series on the Kaka Hill track here in Nelson, after a bit of rain I decided to take it easy for my first race run which didnt work out to well as you can see in the photos...
After 3 and 1/2 hours at the Hospital I left with 5 internal stitches and 12 holding it together on the outside! The cut was aparently to the bone in spot so now I can't really use my left arm for much for a couple of weeks. Luckily nothing is broken which is a bonus so once the stitches are out ill be back into action again.
Because of my bike situation it doesn't look like ill be making it to any of the North Island DH rounds so my first race back will most likely be the Dunedin round of the Nationals. This also means ill get to spend a bit more time at home this summer which will be good to get in some spear fishing and wake boarding.
