Sarah's Blog

Hello everyone, since becoming patron of SVNW I have been doing a great deal of racing. Although some of it has been interrupted due to the bad weather and flooding in areas where I was planning to race. Fortunately last weekend's National Disability Road Circuit Champs were unaffected on a hill up in Derbyshire and I was able to record my 1st win on the road in this country this year.

At the moment all my focus is for the World Championships in Bordeaux in August. I'll be racing 4 events at the Championships, 2 on the track (500m TT and 3,000m individual pursuit) and 2 on the road (road TT and road race).

I'm very eager to race there now, I've done a lot of preparation races and competing across the country since the end of March, so it's definitely time to put all the hard work together and try and retain my world champion status.

Outside of my training I have been finding time to work with the swimmers in the north-west disability swim squad and I am always on the look out for new talent. We had a squad session on a weekend when one of my events was postponed due to flooding, and although some of the GB squad swimmers were away on a camp, there was a good set of swimmers there and we did a starts and turns clinic, where I was in the water doing some demo's. It was great fun, the swimmers certainly improved by the end of the session and we now have so many more swimmers capable of doing the full 2 hour session, something that wasn't happening a couple of years ago. The greatest part about the job is that so many of the swimmers are now asking to stay in for longer, rather than having to be invited to stay in!

Anyway, keep your fingers crossed for the world champs and keep up with the general results on www.britishcycling.org.uk

Thanks! Sarah