Looking forward to a summer of dreams combined with nightmare situations (with Rachael Walker)

Today was all planned but kinda on a crazy tight schedule, so when i woke up at 5am, I knew everything might not happen. By the time Rachael and I had loaded the BRAND NEW ADVENTURE MOBILE ( here you can see my Mongoose DH bike,  my skateboard, my hemelt, my Shimano shoes, my bag, my goggles, Rachaels newly retrieved stolen bike, my road shoes,my body armour #messy)
and got onto the motorway at 6.30am we discovered the the van woulnd't get into 5th gear and we decided to keep pushing on slowly, getting overtaken by lorries, to reach our desired destination - UK Bike Park, where we'd booked an uplift with a group of friends. By Basingstoke we decided to turn back, Rach had just bought the van and wanted to get it back to mr salesman whilst he was still open. He was very fair and said he didnt want to sell faulty good and would fix it on Monday. Fair enough, but we'd missed our freeride trip we'd booked a month ago!!! Sad face. :-(. There you go.


So we made the most of our time and finsished decorating Brian the Van into a princess AnaNichoola Wagon:

And fit the stereo

Only to find that the reason we couldn't hear anything was in fact because the van didn't have speakers. So we went to visit my brother around the corner (rachaels house mate- that's how we know each other) and he had a bonfire and we roasted Flumps (cheaper than a pack of marshmellows)

And then it was time to face up to the reality that I was doing the Redbull Minidrome. Why on earth was I so nervous?!?! It's not likes it's a proper UCI race, with points and stuff, It's just FUN!!!! However, i got sponsored by Mongoose on the back of this race this time last year, so I guess i knew big stuff can happen from it. the press love it, people watch it like you're on a stage. I really wanted to qualify. I also really wanted to wear my brand, spanking, shiney, sexy, awesome new sperm helmet from Bell. Man! It's so damn cool!! So I practiced The Look.

And then I got on the train, went to York Hall as one of the last qualifiers to try out. Smashed it up qualifying 10th and fastest girl. My teamie V gave it a  go too on my bike, and just missed out by 2 places on qualifying!!! And then we went to the pub in the station and had several wines. And now I'm excited for tomorrow, but don't want to end today cos it's been soo frikkin rad!!!! :-))))