Hi All,
It has been a while since my last post but I haven’t been too busy on the racing side of life but I did get some great news after my successful year of racing, I got selected to join British Cycling’s Academy Programme for mountain bike which is full time, living in Manchester. I moved down here almost a month ago and have settled in well, the programme provides regular support and coaching from the British Cycling staff down here which is great for my progression on the bike.
After my long season I had a month of the bike completely to get some rest and chill out before I started some easy training rides and moved down here to Manchester where my training amount has gone up a lot. Training is varied just now with some gym work, road rides, MTB rides and now starting to mix some Cyclo-cross races in there. It is great being able to train with the other athletes on the programmes and it is allowing me to learn different things and try and pick up some helpful advice about living and training every day. It is a bit different to living at home as I need to adapt to looking after myself and all manage all the other things such as cooking, cleaning, shopping and other general things but I am starting to get there now which is good.
You can keep up to date with daily life down here on my twitter @grantferguson1
Cheers Grant
