Go Shanaze

Last December our BMX club had the pleasure of welcoming Shanaze Reade to our track for some expert coaching. Such an inspirational person she is now back on the GB Sprint team and ready for the challenge of Rio 2016. Another reason to watch the cycling now and see her progress towards a Gold.
Shanaze made two Olympic finals on her BMX which is an amazing feat in itself as the standard is so amazingly high. Unfortunately crashing in 2008, and just, well fairly beaten in an amazing London final in 2012, as a 3 x World BMX Champion and two times World Sprint champion she is bloody fast and nows how to ride a bike!!!
Olympic Golds sometimes elude the best but lets support Shanze and this time round 2016 is her year.

A weekend with Shanaze!

 Just got around to writing something about the Coaching weekend we had at Cornwall BMX Racing club last weekend. The club proudly welcomed 3 x World BMX Champion and Track Cycling World Champion, Shanaze Reade to the track at Blackwater for two days of intense and inspiring coaching. Shanaze has spent the past year in the USA riding alongside the best, male and female and we were lucky enough to have a fraction of that knowledge passed onto us. Riders of all ages came to the track for the two days and rode their hearts out. The young rippers went first in the mornings and it was great to see the talent in the club, some of these little guys like Colby Hoare already riding in the National Championships at the age of 6 years Old and Sienna and Isla Harvey riding at the Worlds this year in Rotterdamn, with Sienna coming home with the number 7 plate. A great fun session for these youngsters and she worked them hard, Jago loved it, he worked really hard and managed to get pretty much everything autographed!!

Us older ones, over 12!! were beasted fitness wise for  both days! This turned into a Full on fitness test for me and at 45 years old and newly returning to the sport I think I came away from this weekend with my head high and knowing that I'm not over the hill just yet. In fact the opposite, I came away as did many others inspired to be better, fitter and stronger for 2015. I had a couple of spills in the exercises but learnt another few lessons. To watch the younger elite riders hit the jumps was great to see and something that many don't really appreciate the speed, height and length they are jumping, with the consequences result in potential serious injury.

As for Shanaze Reade she was truly a great coach and brought everyones confidence levels to a real high. As an old boy I was encouraged to Jump further, go faster and loosen up, we were all complimented on things we did well and coached on areas to improve. This was the first coaching session for any sport I'd done in a long time and would do it again tomorrow. Come back soon Shanaze.

Great Weekend ahead.

Myself and Jago are getting pretty excited about this coming weekend. Cornwall BMX Racing Club has 3 x World BMX Champion Shanaze Reade visiting to coach and share some words of wisdom. Its great to be part of this event as its not often any of us mere minions get to meet an Olympic athlete and learn about a fraction of the commitment it takes to get there.

On a purely selfish business note, myself and colleague Fay at Discover 2 Empower cic are also very excited to be supporting the Sunday Session by offering a small financial donation that will allow riders the chance to only pay half the cost and providing more access to this amazing opportunity.

This is a club run solely by volunteers and the amount of work and commitment given to the community is humbling and its great to be involved in this event as a rider, a Dad and I suppose a sponsor of a weekend that is helping to develop the counties next local, regional, national and international champions.

The main reason for writing this and to get to the point is that if anyone has any media contacts that would like to come an give this event some coverage this weekend then please drop me a line as it would seem that the Coca Cola truck seems to warrant more media coverage and is more important the developing a future generation of sports stars!

cheers all