Well, what can we say........a fantastic 'Long' weekend at the Bright Boot Camp and although not completing the whole four days, Sue & I did get to ride approx 265kms over a 3 day period.

Congratulations to everyone at Cycling-Inform for arranging such a professionally run long weekend.

We are not going to say we thought any stage was easy, on the contrary, both Sue & I found it very challenging. Having a 'Criterium racing' background we certainly noticed the more than a bump or two in the road. I guess we now have some idea just how difficult it is competing in road races here & throughout Europe.

We wanted for nothing on the weekend, as everything was arranged & available for us...from the accommodation to the beautiful scenery.

The seminars held each day after our day of riding were informative & quite entertaining.

We were very fortunate to ride alongside Sharon Laws the 2nd place getter of the 2008 Australian National Road Championship. Sharon was talking to us & giving us some tips for road races as we travelled along the roads & hill climbs around Bright. We would also like to personally thank Andy for making sure we did get to finish the hill climbs. He climb with me all the way & talked me through it to the finish line.

I am used to finishing my races in approx 45 minutes not 3 to 4 hours.

Since our return home, Sue has definitely benefited from the Boot Camp by taking out 1st place in our clubs criteriums (CCCC) on Tuesday night in 'D' grade at Sandown Raceway. (I will leave Sue to tell you all about that).

 Many thanks to David/Jodie & crew we will certainly be back for the next one!

Phil & Sue Cox