Hola, me again! As promised yesterday I said I'll do another blog entry today to do some thank you's so here I am tapping away on my keyboard whilst listening to some classic Tina Turner and Whitney Housten and thinking of things to write. Many of you may be chuckling right now at the fact that I enjoy listening to Tina Turner and Whitney Housten and wondering how on earth I know who such artists are! I know who these popular culture artists are as my mumsy used to love listening to a bit of Tina, Whitney, Mariah or Celine whilst doing the ironing, cleaning or cooking when I was a little nipper - she even had a Celine casette for her car when we drove to the shops so that is how I know who those pop divas are. I also enjoy listening to other artists and if any of you out there know who the Sugarhill Gang are then you have earned yourself a virtual pat on the back from me. If you haven't heard of them then please get onto itunes and discover real music!
Today I'm totally screwed from yesterday's race and travel and everything else that went with it so I am having a nice easy day of a spot of bike cleaning, little bicycle pedal and team presentation this evening. Team presentations are big deals over here so I'm going to wash my barnett for the occassion and maybe even have a shower also and try and not look like a little hobo that I normally look like....I once got told I look like Worzel Gummidge, I had to laugh at that one as it wasn't far from the truth!
Thank you time now and I have a few.....firstly I'll thank you all for reading this drivel and babbling and for your comments about it.
The biggest thank you I have is to my cycling club back home, the mighty CCC's, as without their support over previous years and this season there is no way I would have been able to firstly do as many races away in the UK last season and also this season be based in Belgium living the dream. Also, not only their financial assistance has helped me but the words of wisdom and help and guidance along the way from people within the club and for knowing that they support my goals of trying to hit the big time....so many thanks to them!
Next up, I'd like to thank Advisa Financial Services, Bellpumps Ltd and Pedal Power for their assistance throughout this season as again without their help life over here would be more of a struggle and mean I wouldn't be able to focus solely on riding my cycles and racing as hard as possible. I'll also give The Colonel a "shout out" as without his contacts and help I wouldn't be on a team over here and having a chance to race in these hardcore races!!!
Don't worry I'm nearly done and you can get back to surfing the internet or watching Eastenders or whatever nonsense you were up to before you started reading this fine blog entry. I must thank the family I'm staying with over here, the Coolens, as the name suggests they are cool! If I wasn't staying with people then I can safely say that my time over here would have been very lonely but they have welcomed me greatly and let me into their family and included me with everything so it's a home from home and I love it here. Okey dokey, last thank you and it's another important one....I want to thank everyone close to me who has helped me along the way over the past couple of cycling seasons and also when I was a badminton player, they know who they are so I'm not naming no names, but without their help through training, advice and friendships or whatever it may be, I could well have not ended up taking this path of trying to make it in cycling.....they have put up with me being a right pain in the arse at times (that's most the time if I'm honest), helped me through my low points and anything else inbetween and so thanks peoples!!
I suppose I should also thank my mumsy and family for letting me out of the Island and supporting me, they've always supported me through my sport back from when I was junior short-tennis star, through to regular tennis, badminton and now cycling (and no it wasn't short tennis because I was too short to play regular tennis, it was the junior version of tennis which I wasn't bad at whatsoever!).
That's it, the thank-you's are done (for now anyway). Hope you enjoyed the read, and learning a little bit more about me, now go and download some sugarhill gang and start educating yourself with proper music.
Salut
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