To Oxnard, California!

Like many Canadians do during the winter months, I'm heading South to warmer weather. My trip isn't exactly a pleasure cruise though. I'm going to California to join up with my coach Adam Morka for a week of training under the warm sun and in the mountains of Santa Barbara.

Adam has given me a peek at what the week will hold training wise and according to my Training Peaks calendar I'm looking at at least 26 hours just on the bike. To say I'm excited is an understatement, especially that I'll be getting to train alongside Adam, a World Cup athlete, and his wife to be Emily Batty, Olympian for Canada in cross country mountain biking in London. (Including others!)

I'll be making an effort to update this blog throughout the week with the different kinds of things we'll be doing. I'll be riding my brand new 2013 Devinci Wooky Carbon SL 29er on the mountain roads of Gibraltor and various other mountain climbs. I saw a profile of one of the climbs Adam has already done and it showed a 15km climb. You'd be lucky to find 1km on any climbs here in Southern Ontario so again, I am so pumped up to get to even ride in a place like Oxnard.

SO, from today, the 17th until the 25 I will be riding my ass off in Sunny California. I'm currently writing this in an airport restaurant while I await my flight. Only took me 20 minutes to get though customs and security even with my massive bike box. I only hope I have no problems collecting my luggage on the other end, one reason I wanted to make sure I have a direct flight




My bike barely makes it into the confines of the box, I feel that if I had gone with a large frame that I would have been SOL. The 29er wheels don't make things any easier. Still, I got things packed up and hopefully protected well enough against the abuses of airport baggers. Come tomorrow we'll be just going for a little explorer ride. Check back tomorrow for some more updates