After A very long 11 hour drive we finally made it too are apartment in the lovely town of san remo on the Italien coast line. The first few days consisted of lots of morning road rides for added fitness, With around 20 miles being covered each day it was pretty certain that we were doing the right thing to become fitter and stronger for the upcoming races. After the mornings road ride we would head up the hill and ride lots of downhill,

Sospel was the first venue a flat rocky track lasting around 6 minutes. A good day wih 7 runs in the bag but very hard work and lots of room for improvement over the trip.

Next day we kept it local heading just up the hill to romolo which by far was the hardest track of them all with huge rocks non stop.

Day 3, The hardesr road ride of them climing a massive 2400 feet up the romolo hill. The climb was well worth it in the end as it ead to the biggest decent down I have ever done and hitting speeds of 40mph was very exicting as well.

Day 4 was when I really got things moving along, a Monnaco road ride to start was ideal, After this i took the day out for some much needed rest to make sure I was 100% for the rest of the trip.

On the fith day The team headed back to Peille, It was my first day riding the track which ment it was yet another new track, Clearly the first few days had been paying off as I really got in to the swing of riding and was putting in some very fast sections of track and deffinatly feeling more at home than ever.

Day 6 saw us head over to the local trails of the world famous Fabien Barel, The track had some big drops and jumps which I had never done and knew I concer to be able to race at the highest world level. By the end of the day I had it all nailed and was doing stuff again that I hadent been doing before the trip.

Back to sospel for the next day where I got the freelap timing out for the first time, I was feeling better than ever and posted down a 3.23.50 before the rain started to close in which was only 5 seconds slower than top 30 wolrd cup rider Olie Burton.

The eight day was unfortunatly the last day of the road trip so we headed local to romolo for more riding but this time on the other track, The track was very fast and rough which ment to was great for rider training, With a very sucessful last day It was time to head to the apartment and get packed up to drive home the next morning. The trip was so valuable and I learnt so much, Im looking forward to being able to do some more training with Olie before the next U.K race.

Michael