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Travelling and bike riding are two things I enjoy and getting the chance to put them together on a trip to India was a chance I could not turn down. Heading out the India with photographer Dan Milner and friends under the guidance of Mike from Mountain Bike Kerela was how it all started.

Take a look at some of my photos from the trip here

Last week I held my first girls skills camp in Verbier, Switzerland. Thanks to Bike Verbier I managed to keep a week free from racing and finally got to run my first skills camp. 6 girls came out to Bike Verbier’s Chalet for an amazing week of sunshine, great food, endless switchbacks and loads of laughing !

I really enjoyed teaching the group and I took great pleasure in seeing them all improve so much over the week and ride trails I know they would have not even attempted at the start of the week. I look forward to seeing them have a go at some Enduro races next year !!

Thanks to everyone at Bike Verbier for arranging the week and for guiding us on endless great trails. I hope I will have time next year to run a similar week alongside some more skills days in the UK. Watch this space….

I can’t believe my first season of Enduro racing in the UK has come and gone already. It’s been great fun and good to see so many new faces racing their mountain bikes at this new format. The 5 rounds were all so different it really was a great test of all round bike ability and fitness to come out on top at the end of the season. A big thanks to Steve Parr and Bud for making it happen and I only hope that it will grow in support and sponsors for future years to make it a bigger and better series and already next year with the hopes of hosting a UCI World Series round things look good.

Dyfi was the final round and having punctured at round 2 I still needed a win here to take the overall series. Dyfi forest is located on the backside of Cader Idris and we were treated to some epic views thanks to a late summer weekend of sunshine !

Cader Idris mountain just out of the clouds

It was the biggest loop of the year at 38km with some long fire road transitions, but again on a sunny weekend even they were pleasant and scenic !

The loop took around 4.5hrs to complete taking in 5 rapid stages using a lot of the tracks made from the many motorbike enduro races held here. So massive ruts and whoops you could double up if brave enough ! It also had some freshly cut sections which you literally freefalled off the fire road into…..

Fortunately the weather stayed good and we all got around before the rain set in, which was a good thing as stage 5 was all on grass so some rain would have made that pretty interesting !

I had a good day, making no real major mistakes and managing to get myself and my bike around incident free. There were so many punctures along the way I was really happy with my prototype Bontrager tyres which probably had their biggest test yet at this event !

I took the win ahead of Helen Gaskell with a time that placed me 27th overall, so I was pretty happy with that. It also gave me the points I needed to take the series win.

2012 UK GRAVITY ENDURO CHAMPION

Big thanks to all of my sponsors for their support this year and especially to Shimano for all the tech support they have offered at these events.

The Shimano finishing arch

And a big thanks to my youngest T-MO racing fan club that were shouting at me at the finish of stage 5 !

Looking forward to the 2013 Enduro season already………….

Photo thanks to Sven Martin

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I have had a pretty busy and varied few weeks whilst back at home !

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After a month of racing enduro’s in Europe I was pretty excited to get back on the World Cup downhill circuit as I felt that all my bike time would be good preparation. Although having not ridden my downhill bike since Fort William it didn’t take me long to feel good on my bike. The track in Val D’Isere was a new one of the world cup circuit and it seems as though it’s a track that had been used for the French Nationals a few times but other than that it was not a permanent track. It was quite old skool with some very off camber loose turns and flat out straights with a few drops to flat ! A lot of the trail was also really narrow, animal track width and racing flat out on the dh bike, it did feel really narrow !

Although not super technical the track took its toll on a few people, with one of them being one of the top girls Tracey Hannah crashing in practice and breaking her femur and collar bone. I wish her a speedy recovery. Sadly I also took a slam during the qualification race, just getting off line on one of the fast narrow traverses and the next thing I knew I was picking myself up off the floor. I felt really winded when I got back on my bike but the feeling didn’t go as I continued to ride down the course. I had taken a massive blow to my ribs on the left side and as I came into the last corner I just drifted wide and lost a lot of speed and had to go around the final jump.

Looking pretty dusty just after my qualifying crash !

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My Enduro races changed from individual time trial races to the crazy mass start racing for a couple of weeks !

First stop was Cervinia, Italy a lovely ski resort at the foot of the Matterhorn. Sadly the weather turned bad on race day and we were unable to use the glacier to start on, so it was a shorter track but still a good 12min descent so some great training ! With only 5 girls entered it was not a big mass start but still a good workout and I had a good start in both races and led from the start to take the win.

My next race was then the big one of the year, the Megavalanche in Alp D’huez. This is the longest running mass start enduro race and definitely a prestigious one to win. I took a weekend off in preparation and really tried to put some time in on the snow in best preparation but sadly it was on the snow that I lost my time to eventual winner Anne Caroline Chausson.

2nd place was still a great result with a strong field of over 100 girls. I also learnt a lot and feel I could be much better prepared for the race next year !