An Update from Palm Springs

Over the past week I have been living and training in Palm Springs, California with Cycling BC. This week we had both the women's and men's junior teams training here. The women's team left today, and will be replaced later today with some more men riders. They will be here for the last week. The junior men's team will be here for the full two weeks (myself included).

Over the past week we got some really good rides in, and hopefully we can keep that going! Our first day (last wednesday) consisted of building bikes, grocery shopping and going for a short, easy spin to loosen the legs up after our flight. Every ride after that has been over 4 hours and over 100 km long. Those rides have included some pace-lining drills and sprinting drills, as well as some climbing efforts. Our longest ride so far was 183 km, that took six hours.

I'd like to thank Cycling BC and all of the sponsors for making this training camp possible. It's given me an opportunity to get a kickstart to the season by training with the team and getting lots of base miles in.

Jordan