Emma Grant – Jetlag and Racing
Time has flown. It does not feel like 3 months since I blogged from Arizona. Now that the season is well under way I am able to reflect on the whirl wind which has been the past 3 months. Blogging is good for me, alongside working on my degree it helps keep a few neurones [...]
Hannah Walker: Bedford & Shrewsbury
After winning my first ever Queen of the Mountains jersey last week at Bedford 3 day stage race, a week later I took the win in Shrewsbury with Jessie, Harriet and Jo taking the next 3 places behind me! It’s been a great week for Matrix Fitness Racing Academy. I took the lead in the [...]
Racing in Trinidad & Tobago
Well I’ve finally had two minutes to sit down and reflect on what was probably the best week of my life – Trinidad. I was invited out to Trinidad for Njisane’s 3 Day Cycling Festival (#N3DCF). Njisane is a track sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who was 4th at the London 2012 Olympics in the [...]
Camp Matrix – Explained
Training Camp (Wikipedia): A training camp is a place, usually with an army-camp-type environment, where people go to learn skills, usually skills involving physical action rather than book subjects, usually for an armed force or an action sport. OK, so our training camp didn’t really have any army similarities at all, and there were [...]
A few weeks with Harriet Owen
So, now I’m back in England and have started my season off I thought it was about time I told you all about our training camp in the South of France in the lovely town of Limoux. I’ve never trained in France before and being a bit of a sprinter the thought of climbing mountains [...]
Guy Collier meets the team #MatrixLaunch
Guy Collier is a photographer we have admired at the team for a very long time. We were very privileged when he joined us at our team launch and took a leading roll with the team, and also a special feature on Jessie Walker. Not only are Guy’s photos stunning, but he’s also taken the [...]
6 Day Racing and Training Camps
Well, finally I’ve had two minutes to sit down and reflect on the first month and half of 2013! I can’t believe it we’ll soon be into March; the road race season is fast approaching us all. A very scary thought in my opinion, seems two minutes ago I was racing my heart out at [...]
First Win of the Season
I am currently blogging whilst basking in the Arizona rays, so sorry to hear it’s been snowing! I’ve popped across the pond to get in some early season racing on the West coast before heading over to Belgium for the bulk of the Euro season. I am really excited to get stuck into the 2013 [...]
Champions Dinner
On Wednesday night I received an email regarding the champions of cycle sport dinner and I have to admit I’ve never heard of this event until then. Hannah laughed when I told her I originally thought the event took place in York and not London. Then next day Hannah rang me to confirm she was [...]
Update from Hannah Walker
Well it’s the October off season for me and I’ve mostly been working at the pub in my village or the bike shop in Hazel Grove called Sportive Nation which is great fun. Other than work I have caught up on lots of shopping trips in Manchester, a day out into Liverpool where I had [...]
Jessie Walker at World Championships
Well for those of you that don’t know, I competed in the junior world road race championships this year in holland. And what an experience that was. First I was put onto the GB long list so I attended a selection camp in Newport, Wales. This lasted 5 days and was to see how our [...]
Everything is happening all at once
Well it’s been a busy few weeks for me with training hard for the National Track Championships, family coming over to visit from Australia, going to watch the Tour of Britain and attending exhibitions on behalf of Matrix Fitness at the NEC and Tour of Britain as well as still trying to fit work in [...]
I finally got my hands in the air
It was amazing to finally get my hands in the air and being at such a prestigious event the Newport nocturne made it even better. With thousands of people there to watch and it being the first ever women’s event we had to put on a great show. Fast and furious from the start with [...]
National Champion again
So my birthday was last Thursday (16th August, get it in your diary for next year) and I turned 20! It wasn’t the typical 20 year olds birthday where you might have celebrations with family in the day time, then a big night out in the city with friends… nope my birthday consisted of packing [...]
A busy few weeks and definitely a few to remember!
Well the back end of July and the first few weeks in August are definitely a period in my life I’ll never forget. After the National Circuit Championships me and Jessie stayed with Penny for a couple of nights and we had a right laugh and did lots of girlie things. On the Friday morning [...]
Joanna Rowsell – Photo Blog
If you head over to Filles a Velo you can see Jo’s latest blog. It’s a photo blog of all she’s been up to since the Olympics Well worth a look
National Champion – Annie Simpson
After a month of no racing, it was nice to return with a win, and not just any win, a National Championship win! Sadly not being able to ride the Tour of Brittany with the rest of the girls due a clash with my University Graduation, kind of threw me off for the 2nd part [...]
Olympics and meeting celebrities the lift
You know you’re in a nice hotel when you bump into celebrities in the lift! We’re a few days into the Olympic holding camp now and staying at the Celtic Manor in Newport (South Wales) the most amazing hotel I’ve ever stayed in and I couldn’t ask for a nicer place to spend the lead [...]
Penny and the team on Tour of Brittany
Here’s a little insight of our awesome Tour of Brittany. We came away with top 10 results in a UCI Pro stage race. Not only that we, have a lot of positives to take away from the experience to share with you as the girls explain: Corrine – Thinking about it, there wasn’t one particular [...]
Sport really is a fabulous thing
Since I last blogged, I raced in the Curlew Cup, one of the races which make up the Women’s National Series on the 1st July. It’s a great event up in Newcastle promoted as part of the Virgin Money Cyclone. This race was the first time (that I can remember) that a women’s race has [...]
Ups & Downs along road to Brittany
From the highlight of my season thus far finishing 2nd in the British U23 national championships, to ending up on the floor at Curlew Cup…… Its been an emotional couple of weeks! Luckily my crash wasn’t too disastrous and with 5 minutes on the next group I still managed to cross the line in 12th, [...]
National Championships by Annie Simpson
Well when I woke up yesterday at 6.30am to slashing rain in rural East Yorkshire I could never have predicted the team would get a 2nd and 3rd on the Under 23 National Podium, that is the stuff dreams are made of. Looking down the start list there were, as always, some big names to [...]
I’m going to the Olympics
Well, I’ve had some pretty exciting times in the last week! Firstly, finding out I’m part of the Great Britain Team going to London 2012 and then travelling to Loughborough to collect my GB kit! What a dream! Going to an Olympic games and winning a gold medal is what I’ve dreamt about since I [...]
