Quick update as I have a ton f packing and cleaning to do before flying out to the US tomorrow.

Back now from Fort William, surprisingly the weather was nice there for the 2nd year in a row.....crazy!

The only rain of the weekend was for 4X qualifyers on Friday evening, It started to come down real hard about 10 minutes before I went off, just enough to make all the rocks wet and slippery. It was surprising, it was my first qualifying run of the season that I didnt make any mistakes, but It was also the first time I didnt qualify in 1st. 3rd place for me, but no worries, I hate lane 1 at Fort William anyway.

Just got back to our base in Austria from a 3 race road trip round Europe, which is the reason for my lack of regular updates.

Last weekend was round 2 of the 4x world cup, it was 4X only at this race. Only having 4X this weekend and not DH as well has it's good points, and bad points. Good because it's easy to save your energy, but bad as when 4x practice starts at 6pm, you have way too waiting around all day.

Random funny story, the hotel we were stying in had possibly the most anal and grumpy owners ever, and this is 100% true. We were told we are not allowed to stay in their hotel ever again, for the following offences (as explained by the owner himself)

The last 6 months has flown by and it was off to the first round of the World Cup series for 2009 in Pietermaritzburg in South Africa. We arrived in pietermaritzburg on the Monday afternoon after a couple days of bike setup and a bit of site seeing in Johannesburg.