This year is my first season being coached. My team manager Chris Truett has give me a constructed training program and diet plan to stick to, which will help me with my winter training for the next few months.

I am doing long steady rides with my team at weekends, steady miles on my own during the week. Every Thursday night I also do a mountain bike ride with some of my team mates and friends, which is a good break as well as being quite tough.

Every second weekend the team goto Riverton fell to do some off road mountain biking to keep our skill level up, as well as a hard work out for three hours, which I find enjoyable. This gives me the time to practise riding up hills and off road which I need for the NPS this year. Aswell as it being hard, but the café afterwards soon make up for it, which my manager demands.

This is helping me keep my interest up over the winter months, which are long and boring in the cold wet winter weather sometimes.

Riding the bike during the week I also goto the gym twice a week, to do some legs work and upper body strengh exercises. This will hopefully help me improve my strenght and stamina. I do about hour and a half each session, doing small weights and lots of reps, this is going well so far.

During the winter I have raced at the Leisure Lakes series near Preston and have finished 1st twice so far which I am pleased with.

This year I am hopefully to compete in the Mountain Bike National Points Series. The National Junior Road Races series and other major races through out the year. So far my manger has said he is please with my progress and hopefully looking for the month to come.

Good year from me.