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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
JHT GP in Colchester
The 7th June saw my legend dad once again drive me to the other side of the country with my bro and Mouldy (Boyfriend) for the 3rd round of the Johnson Health Tech Grand Prix. A good 4 and a half hour journey in pouring rain soon passed by and wasn’t too bad. We got [...]
Baguette and Bike Racing
Belgium Time! Early Wednesday morning my dad, penny, Jessie and I all made the journey down south to the chunnel. After having to sweet talk the AA Man to pinch a fuse for the cigarette lighter to enable us to use the sat nav, we got to Folkestone surprisingly early so luckily were able to [...]
Junior Champs – Next stop BELGIUM
It was a nice drive to Brynmawr town centre in Abergavenny with Jessie and her mum on Saturday morning for the Junior National Road Race Championships. Bright blue skies and not a cloud to be seen, it was destined to be a good day for us that was for sure. Luckily the race didn’t start [...]
Johnson Health Tech GP Series Launch
On a cold and wet morning Penny and I headed down to Stoke-on-Trent for the launch of the 2012 Johnson Health Tech Tour Series, to represent the Matrix Fitness-Prendas girls. We rocked up in our swish team casual clothes, only to be out done by the Team UK Youth lads; Pov and Niklas. Wearing tailor [...]
Video Shoots and Shopping for Shoes
Recently I did a video shoot at the Pure Gym in Stoke-on-Trent in order to promote women’s cycling and how we can change the view of how it is perceived to the wider public. The shoot took place at one of the largest Pure Gym’s in the country. For those of you that don’t know, [...]
Bremen 6 Day
On the 12th January, myself and ex National Cycling Champion Paul Gerrard set off on our journey to the Bremen 6 day via Birmingham airport to stay overnight in the travel lodge, and to meet my ex-team mate and Junior World Road Race Champion, Lucy Garner. Sleep was important that night as it was an [...]
