Curley writes to me "Todays cake...coffee and walnut. nothing special."I am gutted that the National Trust, an institution of tea rooms cannot satisfy.Shame on you green oak leaf

Hill Climb 0295 Originally uploaded by BigSteevHA HA, Love it when about 1 second later after Andy Waterman's mild mannered shot of me looking calm and collated I now look like I'm about to cry

Photo: Andy WatermanI've not ridden a hill climb before, but basically I put it down to spriting well hard up a hill then when you get kinda near the top sprint harder alittle bit more. I did plenty of hill reps out in Italy and a few in France, some seated some out the saddle all the way. I reckon that probably didn't really help. So Rollapulza held the first ever santioned closed road Urb

Bianchista has been championing this photog for a while. But I just stumbled across an image of me before the Nocturne and also of the team warming up. They look soo nice. Love them. But if you know me, you know I love photos of myself!

A Benitot Anglais Gatwick - Toulouse, one hour Airport to Charlie's (St Orens), 40 mins Ride, ride, ride, eat, rose, sweat, play on fancy rollers, ride. Saturday arrives en mass trip to Pau. Zip tie bikes to roof. Drive, arrive. Hot. Sign on, get White Rsys. Sickhead Drive to finish where hotel is. Eat, sleep. Can't sleep excited. 4am awake, two crossiants, bucket of coffee. Drive to start, mad

Losing the yellow to the epic Andy Schlek and he lost it big time. Tears this time but no tantrums. Being so far off the pace by like 8 minutes means that he's not in spitting distance of victory so therefore this is probably the last tantrum by Cadel we'll see this year. Its probably better when he just misses the win but huh, then we get to see some headbutting. Least Cuddles got a cuddle

I flew to Venice at the end of June. 2 hours after landing I was 1500m up in the magnificent Dolomites. From Wednesday to Sunday I rode, hill repeats, cols, cruising about and finding random little passes. In essence I ate ice cream, every day went to Venice on Friday and for the whole day ate Ice cream I did hill repeats in between riding 2 climbs I burnt 4000 calories in one training session I

On the Gray's Inn Road near the junction of Theobald's, there is a little cafe called THQ. Every day from 2.30pm you can get a coffee and cake for £2.75 These were todays options- coffe and walnut and carrot (right)

I was trying to think up a freaking good headline for this post about Nationals but I'm so tired i've given up. It was an experience to say the least. It was stupid tough, I got stupid tired and I'm going to do it all again. Race finished - i crashed, wasn't that great it was hot. Curley pulled out a wicked ride though (did a write up way below in read more) PICNIC 2.30pm - BUT then Dan Craven

The first stage of the Tour is approaching fast. With every Tour the riders must research to be prepared for what lies ahead. Curley and Boom have each been preparing individually ahead of their difficult days in the saddle. Route with stage map to be announced shortly

Oh my days - this one was brewing for months and months. Initial meeting was in April and now its all complete and finally done and yellow and sunflowers, and wheels and yellow. Vive le Tour. I bloody want those Rsys 2011 wheels and I wish I could ride a 55cm frame. Wouldn't match my Black/Pink kit though. Oh yeh and I finally F***ing won at Palace.

I went to Italy and rode some event, but before that I did the Nocturne and was in the break (finished 6th) and then did a National Series race at sprinted for 7th. Then National Champs, a crash, and we lost Jack, that was an adventure - then Italy. I will sit down and write it all up with pictures when I get a minute. I don't want to forget such an epic few weeks. Truly racing, tr