Rebecca Davis's Nov 2011 Bright Boot Camp Feedback

Hi David, Thanks for an great Bright Boot Camp experience last weekend!!! It was certainly very memorable – especially the beautiful day we got for Mount Hotham! I got a lot personally from the camp; I was using it as a tester for the 3 Peaks Challenge next year and it was great to be able to get a feel for the mountains before putting it all together in one day!

It would be great if Cycling Inform ran a boot camp aimed at the 3 Peaks Challenge as I would have loved to have been able to climb the back road of Falls Creek before the big day. I will probably make my way up there on my own one day before March just so I have climbed it as it looks like it’s going to be pretty challenging after 200ks!

The camp has also inspired me to get into some more competitive cycling. I think it made me realise that I am more capable than I thought I was – I am currently only able to get out on my bike for about 150ks a week if I’m lucky, so it has given me the confidence to know that with some extra training I could hopefully do okay!

The camp was SO well organised, the support from bike and ground crew was great and the general operational organisation was far beyond what I was expecting. I will say it would have been even better if I had received more “coaching” from the support riders as that was something I was definitely expecting more of. I am the type of person that loves the feedback and advice and I think I would have got so much more out of it if I had been given it, as I am sure there is a whole heap of things I could do better to improve my cycling!

In saying that, I must mention that Pip was great! Even on the first day up Mount Buffalo as she rode past me, she gave me a few little tips straight away to help me on the climb. As she was then one of my group’s support riders I got to chat to her a bit more and she was always really positive and encouraging.

Overall, I had a great experience on the Boot Camp and would certainly consider coming again in the future.

Thanks again!

Bec :-)