New sponsors - Bianchi, Cervelo, 3T and Reynolds

Would just like to a huge thanks to my new sponsors, Sola Sports. Sola Sports stock Bianchi, Cervelo, 3T, Reynolds, Netti, Dahon Folding bikes, Time, and Serfas.

Already they have hooked me up with some of the top of the line products, including the Bianchi 928, Cervelo P3 for Elite Time Trial Nationals, Reynolds 66 Carbon race wheels, Reynolds Disc, 3T Sphinx Bars - already helped me to my first Elite National Madison Championship title. Loving my Bianchi and can't wait to ride the Cervelo!

Check out the Bianchi and Cervelo pages on Facebook and the other product websites

- Bianchi New Zealand , Bianchi International

- Cervelo New Zealand , Cervelo International

- 3T , Reynolds

Some pics below of my new bikes and equipment.

My awesome new Bianchi 928 with Reynold's 66's

Cervelo P3 and Reynolds Disc getting ready for Elite Nationals

3T Aero Bars

My new wicked Sphinx 3T bars

Again, helped me win Elite Madison Nationals

Some recent media stories and articles

Click on each link below to read/view some recent stories on me that have been in the paper or on the news. Once you've read them, click the back button to come back to my page.

Southland times article 1 - Pre madison nationals

Southland times article 2 - Post madison nationals

3 news story - Post madison nationals

Howick and Pakuranga Times article - Comm Games wrap up

Hopefully more to come in the future!

Melbourne World Cup + Madison Nationals wrap up

She's a big one....

A quick wrap up on the last night of Oceania's in Adelaide before talking about the Melbourne World Cup.

The final night of racing at the Oceania's was the Saturday, with the Team Pursuit and possibly the Madison as well. I was thinking about riding the Madison but didn't confirm it until about 2hrs before the race, as there was a good chance I would be riding it in Melbourne at the WC. The Team Pursuit in Adelaide went well for our first race as a team. The team was me starting, Aaron Gate riding 2nd, Shane Archbold 3rd and Cameron Karwowski 4th. In qualifying we rode 4.10, with Australia, the World Champions, riding 4.06. In the final we went out a bit harder, and rode a 4.08 with the Aussies ride 4.02, we were pretty happy with our first rides together, picking up the Silver in the TP.

I decided to ride the Madisonas there was now 8 teams (at first there was only 3 entry's) and would be a good chance to getsome more racing into the legs before Melbourne. Gatey and I rode together, deciding not to dotoo much and just get some racing in our legs. We were up against Cameron Meyer and Leigh Howard of Australia, the World Champions in the Madison. We had a good crack,rode well picking up some points because the Team Sprint boys go good but couldn't keep up with the World Champs as they got a lap up on us. We picked up the Silver in the Madison. 3 Silver medals at the Oceania Championships in Adelaide.

We flew to Melbourne on Sunday to prepare for the World Cup starting on Thursday. We had a few days training on the Hisense Arena before we raced, trying to get use to the track and riding together in the Team Pursuit. Aaron and I were given the nod to race the Madison on Thursday night, the first night of racing.

There were 13 starters in the 40km Madison, 160laps of the Hisense Velodrome with sprints every 20 laps. We started well, taking out the first sprint, following that the pace was on! From there on, the race was a bit of a blur... All I remember is the Aussie World Champ pair of Leigh Howard and Cam Meyer took a lap, the Dutch pair chased and eventually took a lap. Gatey and I slipped off the front with Hong Kong and pushed the pace. We got over half a lap on the bunch before the Aussie's realised we were about to get a lap, which would have put us into the lead of the race because we had more points than Australia. They hit the bunch and as we got our lap they were off the front going for another lap, which they eventually got and sealed the Gold medal for them. Aaron and I picked up Silver which was our best result to date.

Gatey and I during a change

Podium

NZ 2nd, AUS 1st, NED 3rd

Shane "Novie" Archbold rode the Omnium over the first2 days of racing, Thursday and Friday. We knew he had good form, but the way he rode over the 2 days of racing was incredible. He was consistent, strong, smart and fast! He didn't finish out of the top 5 in 6 different events, and riding to Personal Best times in all 3 timed events to win the Gold.

The Team Pursuit was on Saturday, the last day of racing. The team was Aaron Gate, Cameron Karwowski, Shane Archbold and myself. Shane, Aaron and myself won Bronze at the Beijing World Cup in January in a timeof4.05.We were in the 5th to last heat, and before us the best time was 4.05. The goal was to ride to a 4.04,I started,Aaron rode 2nd, Shane 3rd and Cam 4.

The same order as below, after the firs 3/4 of a lap...

Team Pursuit Melbourne World Cup

Team Pursuit Melbourne World Cup

The ride went well, and we rode to a personal best for all 4 of us, 4 minutes and 4 seconds, top qualifier with 4 teams to go. Great Britain went out extremely hard but blew up, they still managed to ride to a 4.02. Australia, the reigning World Champs rode 4.00 while Russia surprised a few and rode themselves into the Gold/Silver ride with 4.01. We were up against Great Britain in the ride for Bronze.

We knew we would have to step up if we wanted to beat GB, and I knew I had plenty more in the tank for the final... We hit out harder than in the qualifying but knew it would come down to the last 4laps. The Brits went out super hard and had over 2 seconds advantage on us with 6 laps to go! We rode consistently as they blew up, the gap was coming down... Cam dropped with 1km to go, and Gatey opened the throttle and pulled 2 huge laps to finish the ride. We missed out by less than 2tenths of a second...Was unreal to look up at the scoreboard and see 4.01.602, with GB riding 4.01.456. Unfortunately we didn't get the Bronze, but we were all stoked with our time. Australia had a super impressive ride, 3.56... Next goal for me, ride under 4minutes.

Team Pursuit Melbourne World Cup

From Melbourne the whole team flew to Invercargill for a Pre-Cali training camp, the next world cup in Colombia this week. On Tuesday 7th December was the Elite Madison National Champs, and I was again riding with Aaron Gate. The local paper lined us up as "Firm Favourites" (click on the link). The field was strong, with most of the NZ squad riders there. We knew we had to watch Shane and Marc Ryan, Sam Bewley and Jesse Sergent, Wes Gough and Cam Karwowski. The plan was to get the early sprints then follow the others when they tried to take laps.

We started well, winning the first sprint. Following the 2nd sprint, I straight away pushed the pace and I slipped off the front of the field. My legs were feeling good, so we decided to hit the bunch hard and it worked. We strung out the bunch and it was in one's and two's all around the ILT Velodrome. It took just over 20laps but we took a lap on the field... Solo...

Catching some riders just before I caught the bunch

We took the lap early, we still had 100laps of the race to go, a lot could happen... A number of the other teams tried to attack us, but the way we were both riding, it seemed nothing was getting away from us tonight. We were in the box seat and all we had to do was follow and defend, which we did well! It was a fast race, 40km in 44mins, and we came out on top, the only team to lap the field, and we scored the most points! It was our first Elite National title for both Aaron and myself, it felt good!

2010/11 Elite Madison National Champs

An article in the Southland Times the following day "click here".

The next 2 nights was "The Festival of Speed". It was a full Omnium format, with 6 race's over 2 days. I posted 2 Personal Best times, in the 'Flying Lap' and '3km Individual Pursuit', my form was good. I won the flying lap, got 11th in the Scratch race, won the Elimination, got 2nd in the Individual Pursuit, 3rd in the Points Race and then won the Kilo. After the 6 events I finished in 3rd, with the Scratch race really letting me down. Aaron Gate got 1st, Marc Ryan 2nd. Some images from the racing below....

Thats all from me now. At the moment I've got two weeks off the bike, living it up, enjoying the summer and company of my mates. Next stop, Melbourne for the Bay Crits.

Cheers for reading

Myron

First big Tour, now back in Aussie

Tour of Southland finished 3 weeks ago, and I got through my first senior Tour better than I thought I would. After Delhi I had a 10 day block on the road to get the km's in the legs and hoped that I got through Southland not too bad... I rode for PowerNet, the main sponsor of the tour for 10 years.

The team time trial around Queens Park went well, we picked up 5th so we were pretty happy. On the afternoon stage to Bluff I got caught up in the crash 5km from the bottom of Bluff and took some skin off my knee, elbow and hip, but other than that I was alright and made my way up Bluff at my own pace.

Day 2 was the longest single stage in the tour, 165km from Invers to Gore. I sat in the bunch nice, and we got amongst the stage finish with a PowerNet lead out. I didn't know the finish and got a bit caught out 1km from the finish but Tom Scully and Shane Archbold picked up 4th and 5th on the stage, good day for the PowerNet team.

Day 3 was a double day, and probably the hardest day of the tour. In the morning it was a bunch kick and we lined up Scully for the finish. I took him from 900m to go and took Shane to 300m to go and he had Scully on his wheel. Tom got up for another 4th place, Greg Henderson won that stage. The afternoon stage was fast with a lot of cross winds! I rode well up in the bunch and made the front group of 45 on the finish into Winton. There was a group of 3 with about 20 seconds with 2km to go, and I decided if Tom or Shane were to have a go at the bunch kick it was up to me to bring it back. I was on the front from 2km-1km to go but unfortunately both the boys got swamped and Mike Northey took out the stage.

Day 4 was up to the Crown Range, nothing too exciting happened here for me. I rode pretty well and got to within 5km of the stage finish in the bunch before I tinkled up the hill top finish. Day 5 was a shitter, the real Southland weather decided to turn up and for the first time we had rain and wind! It was a chilly 5 degrees at the start in Winton... I rode well but was definitely starting to fatigue as it was day 5! I got to Black Mount in the bunch then cruised up the hill and formed a nice big group of around 25 riders to ride to the finish at Te Anau.

Day 6, the last day! The morning stage into Lumsden was tense, with the yellow jersey only seperated by 3 seconds between Jack Bauer and Hayden Roulston. Into the finish I lined up Shane Archbold with a big turn on the front less than 1km out. Roulston was on Archbold's wheel and jumped past him taking the stage, and also the yellow jersey from Bauer! The final 60km was back into Invercargill and 3 laps around Queens Park. Again it was a bunch kick and it was my job to get Shane near the front with less than 500m to go. Shane was on Hendy's wheel coming out of the last corner with 300m to go but didn't quite have the speed to get over him, but finished up 2nd, and the best result for the PowerNet team so far!

I was happy with my first Tour of Southland, was definitely good training, building the engine, and I was very grateful the weather was good to us!

Last Friday I flew to Perth with Shane and Aaron Gate for the Perth Grand Prix on the track. It was to blow out a few cob webs and get us ready for the Oceania Champs where I am now, in Adelaide. So far I have picked up 2nd in the Elite Men's Omnium, and have the Team Pursuit today!

I'm off to Melbourne on Sunday with a number of the riders here, for the UCI Track Cycling World Cup next week. My mum, brother, sister, grandad, and uncle are all coming over to watch so hopefully I can have a good few days on the track and show them some good racing!

Cheers

Bordeaux - Comm Games - Home!

Sorry for the huge delay since my last blog. I found myself with very little time while in Bordeaux, most days training twice a day, trying to squeeze in some uni work, eating and sleeping, day gone! Then once in Delhi the only thing I was thinking about was racing.

We spent 3 weeks in Bordeaux, France, for our build up to the Commonwealth Games. We stayed in an Ibis hotel about 1km from the Velodrome which was handy. The build up went well, we had our first trials day after around 2 weeks in Bordeaux, which was a 4km Individual Pursuit, and a 4km Team pursuit about 3hours later. Personally my IP didn't go well, which happens. And the team pursuit went a lot better which was a sign that my form was slowly starting to come up! Afterthe trials day we focused on Individual events and more specific training before we headed to Delhi.

The travel to Delhi was a long day, up at 5am, fly to Paris, 4hours in paris, fly to Munich, 5hours in Munich before finally an 8hour flight to Delhi! Luckily we could get into the Lounge's which made the day a bit easier... Arrived in Delhi and straight away we had Police escort, our own lines for Comm Games athletes at customs etc, no problems, and ALL of our gear arrived which was a bonus. Traveling with so much gear, quite often our stuff doesn't arrive on the plane we arrive on.

Onto the bus, with an armed Army man on the bus with us, and a car in front and behind the bus, both with armed guards aboard. From the airport we went straight to the village, in a seperate "Commonwealth Games Bus" lane. These were everywhere, to and from venues from the village. Coned off lanes that only the red Comm Games busses were allowed in, made the travel to and from the track pretty painless!

The village was pretty cool, we were living in big apartment towers.

NZ team

NZ Tower - Ed Hillary and Tenzing Norgay hanging at front

29028 - Height of Mt Everest in feet

Main street in the village

Food hall at night - open 24/7!

We didn't get to attend the opening ceremony, as there was only 1 day in between the ceremony and the first day of track racing. I was on the first day of racing, along with Ali in the 500tt, Jesse and Sam in the Individual Pursuit, and Marc and Eddie also doing the 1km Time Trial.

I was 2nd rider off, behind an Indian rider, nottoo sure how the ranking worked but it was all good, I think I made it exciting for the people at home watching it on TV, as I slowly picked off and beat each riders time until the last 3 riders... I have to say I was a bit nervous when there was only 3 riders to go, I never thought I would go that close to getting a medal! I knew the last 3 would go fast, but ya never know exactly how fast. A kilo can definitely be a "on the day" ride, and sometimes it goes to plan, and sometimes it doesn't. I was happy, I rode a personal best of 1.03.44, can't complain with that! Scott Sunderland of Aussie had a awesome ride, Comm Games record, Rizal Tisin from Malaysia got the silver, and Eddie Dawkins of NZ picked up the Bronze.

From then on in I was just a spectator, enjoying the village atmosphere and watching a huge number of the Kiwi track team pick up medals, with the highlight for sure watching Ali win GOLD in the Womens Individual Pursuit!

The whole track team, 11 out of 19 won medals, and some got more than 1!

After the track was over, I went and watched Valerie Adams win Gold in the Shotput, so far I had seen both NZ athletes win Gold! All and all I really enjoyed Delhi. Unlike the media first portrayed, there was no major problems for us. Security was good, with scans and body pat downs everytime you entered the velodrome, village, or any stadium. Armed guards everywhere you went, the food was good, accommodation was good, the NZ team was awesome, and also very successful.

I flew home early, on Monday 11th, and the closing ceremony was on the Friday 15th. I had been away since May so decided I would go home early and surprise mum. My brother picked me up from the airport and mum got a big surprise, was priceless to see the look on her face when she opened the front door to me.

Since being home I have been catching up with friends and family, it seems to have taken up a lot of my time but I always enjoy seeing my mates and just relaxing a bit. I had 9 days off the bike since my race in Delhi, and with the Tour of Southland just around the corner I had to crack into the training again. For the last 2 weeks I have been trying to get the km's up, to try and prepare the body for the tough 6-Day PowerNet Tour of Southland.

It will be my first Tour of Southland, and I am riding for the PowerNet team along with Tom Scully, Shane Archbold, Brad Carter, Elliot Crowther and Chris Nicholson. The PowerNet support staff have been awesome so far in organising everything for the tour, and I am looking forward to riding for them along with my good mates Scud (Tom) and Novie (Shane).

So far the weather for the tour looks good to start with, but ya never know down in Invers! I am expecting some sh*t weather, so if it doesn't come then that will be a bonus. But I doubt the Tour of Southland won't attract some rain, hail and wind!

My next update will be on how the tour is going.

Thanks for reading

Race report - Schaffen, my first win in Europe!

6 years ago Mark Cavendish got a "text-book lead out from his teammates", to win the same Kermesse, his first win in Europe. The quote came from his book "Boy Racer" which some of the boys in the house are reading now. I had a big day on the training program so headed out for an hour by myself before coming back to the house to pick up Cam and then we rode to the race together. The other guys in the house were sick, so it was up to Cam and I.

Turned up to the race with a nice 50k in the legs before lining up for 110km Kermesse, and finally the sun had come out, was close to 30degrees! 17 laps of a 6.5km circuit, with quite a few corners, a long uphill drag, a kilometer or so through a forest before heading into a S-Bend (90degree right hand, up a short 100m rise, then another 90degree left hand before 200m to the finish line). It was an Under23 race, with around 90-100 starters.

As usual the attacks went from the gun, and as usual, Cam and I were near the front, getting amongst it, but nothing significant managed to get away early on. It was a very fast course and I had a feeling that it was either going to be a bunch sprint, or a large group would get away, and as expected, about half way through the race there was a split in the bunch, and 18 riders rolled off the front. Up the long drag I decided to pull one hard lap up and over the hill to make sure the pace was on in our group, and surely enough we slowly put time into the bunch and disappeared out of site. We both seemed to ride ourselves into the race, and feel better as the race went on. Cam and I were both in the front group, and a few other teams had 2-3 riders as well, with one team having 4 riders, I thought they would be the ones to watch when it came down to the last few laps....

It was a hot day, so was important to keep up the food and drinks, I think both Cam and I went through 4 bottles in 2.5hours! Coming down to the last few laps, I told Cam to be aware and aggressive, as the "winning moves" would start to be made in the last 2-3 laps. It was far less aggressive than I anticipated, had it been an open race, I think our group would have been split to pieces with the weaker riders being dropped. It got down to the last lap and no one had really attacked, it was time for us to really be on our game.

The team with 4 riders had a few attacks, but both Cam and I were near the front jumping on anyones wheel that was attacking. With around 2km to go it was still together, we rolled on the front just to keep the pace decent, as the forest road was quite narrow so we weren't going to miss anything from now till the finish... With 1km to go I rolled to the front, and it felt like a track sprint, with 18 guys! I lead out right up until the last 2 corners, the S-Bend, when a Russian rider jumped inside me, I got straight on his wheel, 2nd going into the last 2 corners with 200m to go to the line, I knew I at least was on the podium...

I hit the last 2 corners HOT!It was fast, and luckily got a slightly better line than the Russian rider out of the last corner which meant I had a bit more pace than he did. He hit the last corner all wrong and his back wheel skipped out 3 times, eeeeekkk! I thought "f**k, this is me down!!" but he managed to stay up right and I somehow swooped out of the last corner and went around straight around him on his right hand side between him and the barrier, and put my head down and went for the line. I jumped past him pretty easy but still had 100m to go to the line, I kicked again then had a little look around, and I was sweeet.... Sat up, took my hands off the bars, and threw my hands in the air! My first win in Belgium, you beauty.... But I wasn't the only one to salute, Cam threw his hands in the air as I crossed the line, he was 3rd, and just about as excited as I was! YOU BEAUTY!! My first win, and Cam's first podium, we were fizzing. 180km in the legs after I rode home, first win, pretty solid day on the bike I'd say!

What a good feeling!

Average was 44.7km for 110km, it was fast! All and all we couldn't have asked for a much better race really. Was good to feel like I helped Cam during the race, a few little words is all it took to make things easier for both of us, in the last few laps we were both ready to be aggressive, and it worked a treat! He is as strong as an ox, and will be up for a win soon the way he rides races, always at the front, and always aggressive!

Interview after the race, was gonna be on Belgium TV!

Russian 2nd, me 1st, Cam 3rd

6 years ago it was Cav, this year it was my turn.

My fake flowers are now in front of Cav's at our house in Blauberg!

I'll leave them and the trophy here, so this is all you'll see of them sorry Mum...

This week will be pretty full on, we are at the track in Ghent on Wednesday and Thursday, then the following Monday, with our last Kermesse race in between these sessions, this coming Saturday. After the track we pack up and head down to Aix-en-Provence for a 4-day road tour, before heading to Bordeaux, France, where the real hard work and team atmosphere for the Commonwealth Games will begin!

Myron

Race report - Tielt-Winge

On Sunday me and the boys raced the Tielt-Winge Kermesse. It was one of the wettest races I have ever done. We left with plenty of time to spare after learning from our mistake at Hoeleden of almost missing the start of the race because we got lost, even with a Garmin and iPhone! Still without a car we are riding to and sometimes back from most of our races, which is good.We found sign on in the typical Kermesse setup of a pub, got our race numbers, no

trouble there. As we walked out of the pub, 30minutes until the race started it started spitting. Another rainy race day, what a surprise...

Sitting on the start line in the rain wasn't a very good warm up, but once the race got under way I slowly warmed up. A little group attacked straight away, only to take a wrong turn about 1km in, most of the guys in the bunch thought it was pretty funny and had a good old laugh. 15laps of a 7.8km course made it roughly 117km. Cam and I sat on or near the front for the first 40km or so, to try and get in the right break, but it didn't look like it was going to happen.

Me on the front up the hill, Cam on my wheel.

The rain didn't stop the whole race, which made the corners on the course pretty dodgy... Chuck in a few man holes, some cobbles or pave, and welcome to Belgium!

Late in the race a group of 9 slipped off the front without me even noticing, and then another group of 7 with 3 riders from Beveren2000 (the top Amateur team in Belgium) jumped away. All 4 of us were in the bunch, so I decided to sit on the front and try and pull the break back. Typical Belgy's just didn't hold my wheel then let me roll off the front, I sat in between the bunch and about 10seconds behind the break but I couldn't quite get to them... With 2 laps to go I was brought back to the bunch, then helped Jason ride off the front of the bunch and he stayed away for a lap and a half to finish in front of the bunch, but behind the two breaks, for 16th place. Cam got amongst the bunch sprint and got 22nd.

In between the racing, my training has been going good. My programme now is a big step up in km's and number of specific efforts I have to do, but it seems to be paying off... My data from my SRM (power cranks) seems to be good, and better than I have ever done before. So lets hope it keeps getting better!

Next week we have two training days on the track in Ghent, then another one the following Monday. Following the track block, we head down to France for a 4-day tour, and a strong team so we will be looking for a good result there. Once the 4 day tour in Provence is over, we drive to Bordeaux to start the track preparation for the Commonwealth Games, with the whole squad!

Some photo's below of the racing in Europe over the last few weeks, rain, rain, rain.....

Crit in Holland

Holland

Holland

Hoeleden Kermesse

After Tielt-Winge, we didn't pack any spare clothes! We

had to collect prize money and return numbers dressed

like this....

Myron

Article on RoadCycling.co.nz about me.

Sarah Christian from RoadCycling.co.nz wrote up a great article about me.

Check it out - Myron Simpson ready for the Games opportunity

Next stop - Commonwealth Games, India!

First of all the big news of late is that yesterday I was officially named in the 2010 Commonwealth Games team in Delhi, India, early October. It has been a bit unexpected to be honest, with injuries to other riders in the squad my chances for the team slowly got better. I had a pretty big track season, picking up some good results and was very consistent which I think was a major contributor to my selection for the Games. But all and all, I have worked hard over the last 12 months, and already have gone to the next level in my training! I am going to make the most of this opportunity, as for me it is huge.

The plan is to stay in Belgium until end of August, where we will be doing a bit of a camp in Gent at the end of August, and then onto a 4 day road tour in the Provence region in France. After the tour the whole team will head to Bordeaux for 2-3 weeks before finally heading to Delhi.

Already the naming of the team has been a huge motivation to my training, which showed today when I picked up my first podium in Europe this year, coming in solo for 2nd place, about 4-5seconds behind the winner, and the same time gap to the chasing bunch. It was a fast kermesse, 15laps of a 7.3km circuit - 110km. The bunch wasn't letting anything get away. In the last lap I moved up the bunch, got in a little move with 3 other riders with about 4km to go, rolled for a bit then they looked at each other so I attacked them and no one chased, I had my gap. I was chasing down one solo Davo rider, and I was getting closer and closer as I got closer to the finish. With about 500m there was a very technical round about, followed by a 90degree right hand corner, and it was raining so I couldn't take any risks to try and make the 5seconds or so he had on me. I rolled in just behind him, and just ahead of the bunch for my first podium in Europe this summer, things are on the up... Next step is to go one better!

For me now my focus is on India, there are some very experienced riders in the team, so will be a good chance to once again learn off them.

I would like to say a quick thanks to the people who have helped me out this year and in the past to make this possible. Mum and the family, Don and Linda Malcolm, Peter Alexander, BikeNZ, Greg Halliday and the team at Mainstream, Del and AvantiPlus Waipuna, Mark Little and the guys at Colorado Traders, Brett Lornie, all the SKC past and present cyclists and families, Chris Whitley, and I am sure there are many more! You all know who you are, so thanks very much.

Time to really knuckle down.

Back to reality

Well the trip to Italy was definitely worth it. I enjoyed the hard racing at the 6-day, learnt a lot, and got to ride around the coast and hills of the Riviera... Not too bad at all!

Cinque Terre

We rode all along the Riviera coast... Incredible!

La Spezia

Even with sun block...

I flew back to Belgium and was straight into racing the next day. It was a 70km crit, for me it wasn't the best race, it started raining and I got caught behind a crash then couldn't chase back on. Cam and Jase rode well, in the front group then Jase picked up 3rd and Cam 4th. Put that one behind me, and I'm now moving forwardwith a hard block of training and racing ahead of me.

I am in Belgium for a month, racing Kermesse's and training, then down to France at start of September for a 4 Day road tour which I will find out more information about it soon.

I also would like to thank Adidas Eyewear for sponsoring me. When I got back from Italy there was a nice parcel with 3 new pairs of Adidas sunnies, so thanks for hooking me up!

Newest sponsor. Cheers Adidas!

Thanks for reading.

Myron

Fiorenzuola Pictures

I have added some photo's from around Fiorenzuola and the track racing.

The racing has been a great experience for me, I have learnt a lot and will hopefully come out of it with some good form for when I get back to Belg! The weather has been so good, the food even better... And I have met some good people and possible contacts for the future.

Tonight is the last of 6 nights of racing... Jackie and I raced well last night, picking up a 3rd in the points race and 5th in the flying lap! The overall race has been very tight... I think the winner will be decided in the last 60lap madison tonight, of the 6 nights of racing!

Out being a tourist in Italy

Olive trees?

Look at the temperature bottom right....

On the fence before a race

Riding round with Liquigas pro Jacapo Guarnieri

Looking for my partner Jackie

During an exchange

Getting into it.

Awesome night of racing.

Ciao