It’s been quite the delay since my last posting, but the past few weeks have been busy.  Between travel, training, and moving, I haven’t exactly been on top of posting.  In December I spent the month in Tucson training, riding looong hours on my time trial bike in the brutal hunched over position.  But it was worth it to get in base miles and riding in the sunshine.

At the end of the month I headed back to Santa Fe for a couple weeks.  I had my doctors appointment which gave me the best Christmas gift ever; the news that my wrist was healed.  I, nor could the doctor believe that in only 8 weeks it had healed (so much sooner then the 14-16 he had predicted).  I spent a couple week in Santa Fe to enjoy the holidays and seeing family/friends.  But that was enough cold and snow for me and so with the news that I could start training on my road bike and put pressure on my wrist I was excited for my return to Tucson.

Since I got back I’ve been picking up intensity to get ready for racing.  It has been some tough training on Gates Pass, Mt. Lemmon, and long drags of desert roads.  Last week I also moved to a new house.. or casita, for my winter training.  It’s a lot further east, but it is absolutely beautiful.  Actually as I’m sitting here typing I’m watching the sunset out the large west facing window.  It is so quite and the morning sun makes me fall even more in love with the desert, … as I ride my bike on rollers and stare at hills of saquaros of course.

My casita and the view outside

This year has started out on a pretty high note.  I’m excited about the new opportunities ahead and some of my newest sponsors, like Santa Fe Brewing Company and Voxxsocks (a socks company that has developed a unique technology that uses the stitching to hit neuro-points on the foot).  I will be racing with a small Canadian team called SAS-MACOGEP-ACQUISIO p\p Mazda.  Yea, the name is a bit much, but it will be a great team to race for.  I’ll be starting out the season in California then racing in Arkansas (probably) and Canada, and potentially Europe in the later part of the year.

This weekend will be my first race back.  Just a small local AZ race, but I’m excited to get my legs going again.