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WXC in Dalby

Cait — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:00:05 +0000

In a moment of extreme organisation I did my preride for the Dalby forest round of the British NPS 3 weeks before the event. I was joined by a few less experienced WXC team mates who I’d promised to help with riding some of the more extreme drops.

A sucessful day was had by all. I kept myself busy trying not to brake on the descents, and for girls who’ve been riding less than a year to get down Medusa’s drop with no problems is impressive, especially as we stood an watched guys on downhill bikes take the chicken run!

Afterwards we met the nice people in the Purple Mountain centre, great place for a post ride cafe stop! I then left the race bike clean, shiny and ready to roll, and jumped on a plane to Spain…

WXC team weekend

Cait — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:27:18 +0000

Last weekend the WXC World Racing and UK teams joined up for a pre-season break in the Scottish borders. There were 18 girls aged 14 to 40s staying at the Rock Uk adventure centre in Newcastleton for a fun, wet and soggy weekend of mountain biking, activities and team building.

The first bit of excitement and laughter came with being presented with our new 2011 kit, with some awesome spotty skinsuits I can safely say you won’t miss the World Racing team this year! Joolze Dymond was on hand for some pro style photo-shoots as we tried to ignore the rain and cold, stop giggling, look the right direction etc – slightly chaotic but lots of fun!

wxc uk squad

Of course there was plenty of cycling – a night ride, a long group ride with a warming coffee shop stop, action shot photo-shoot rides, and even some pain drills. The trails were wet, it rained most of time, it was pretty cold, yet we all had a brilliant time. It was great to see so many girls out on mountain bikes, watch out for some team podium domination this year, standards were high!

team ride

After riding the action continued each evening with outdoor activities and team building games. One particularly fun activity was being zipped inside a giant inflated plastic ball that floated onto the swimming pool – balancing, staggering and finally running on water ended up an being a hilarious extreme leg workout.

blow up balls!

good balancing skills

Thanks to WXC for a great weekend. Also to the RockUK, Joolze for the photographs, and the SIP events crew for showing us their trails.

Next up, in a moment of maddness yesterday I signed up for the Andalucia Bike Race in Spain. With stages of 60-80km and 1-2000m of climbing for 6 days, it looks pretty hardcore. I’ll be riding in the mixed pair category with Josh Ibbett of the Torq Performance team and it starts next weekend…!

WXC World Racing Team

Cait — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:36:16 +0000

The new season is rapidly approaching. This year I’ll be racing for WXC again but in a new format. Carla, Jessie and I will represent the new and more internationally focused WXC World Racing Team. The team is registered with the IMTTO and our schedule includes the European rounds of the World Cup series, the British series, and some other European races. We have some great sponsors and support crew so 2011 is looking very exciting, can’t wait for the races to begin.

Check out the website and follow team news and race reports on our blog.

WXC Mountain Bike Team UK will continue with a newly strengthened squad competing in xc and endurance races in the UK. There was a nice article summarising the team’s performances in 2010 in Singletrack magazine recently (click here).