February 03, 2007

Ozz-Fest is on!!

So, here I am in Australia. Yep, I did it, I took 3 months off from my stressful job at Bend Bike N' Sport, and I am training in the beautiful Gold Coast. I am living in Burleigh heads and am about a mile from the beach, and it is beautiful. I love it here, the people are great and the training is awesome as well. I have been here for a week and a half and have just been riding a ton. Averaging about 60 miles a day, just trying to get my legs going again.

This place is a little different for riding, that rabbit or squirrel on the side of the road, "is that going to jump in front of me or not", you know the one. Ya, here its a wallabee, a tiny kangaroo- pretty cool. And that flock of pigeons, that darts out of the bush while your riding, and scares the "poop" out of you, ya those are parrots, red ones, green ones, fricken parrots, pretty cool. Oh, and they have this bird, that looks like a crow with white stripes, ya watch out it's not flying over you to check out your cool new kit, ya, it wants to pluck your eyes out!!

So things are different, but the same as well. Just training a lot, and trying to focus on getting fit for the long season ahead. I will be here for another 2 months training up for IM Australia. I will try and keep up to date with what is going on with me. Off for a run on the beach- matt