I've still been struggling with this dam sickness bug since Tuesday. I thought on Wednesday i'd gotten over it but it's still seeming to be there, which a real annoying as, although i can train, it's taking longer to recover between sessions. Not what you need when your on a training camp.

We were due to ride Montelimar today but the first straight was pretty much covered with water after our first bit of real bad weather, so we kinda changed our training slightly but all worked out in the end.

We hit up the French Taining Centre yesterday for a couple of hrs or so. Was one of the most challenging tracks we've been to for a long time. Some of it doesn't really cross over to racing all that much but for bike skill, it's pretty good. The added benefit of them having a pro gate there was a big plus as the others we've been on this week have been super super quick.
Alot of the french guys and girls were there and they all had the track dialled pretty well but we didn't take long to step up to the plate. All in all it was a real fun session and we've been invited back next week by Fabrice (FFC National Coach) to ride there again which should be good.
Myself, LP and Luke have got some lines we wanna try out so we're looking forward to getting back there.

We've been to a local gym in Montelimar a couple of times and they are so different to ones in the UK it's untrue. They've got so much equipment in there you can hardly breathe but i must say that the owner (who we met last yr) is a real nice guy and would do anything to accomadate us.

We've been having our own little 'Come Dine With Me' thing going on this week which has seen some impressive dishes being pulled out of nowhere!!! Shanaze is 1st with 33pts, I'm 2nd with 32, LP's 3rd with 31.175 and Luke's 4th with 30pts. With only Coach G to go in wk one's challange, it'll be interesting what he pulls out the bag to beat Shin!!!! The loser arcoss the two wk total's is set to buy a round of Starbucks for everyone else...........Mine's a Grande White Choc Mocha!!!!

Marcus