On the eve of this year's Giro d’Italia, I was told that my cortisol levels from a routine pre-race blood test were considered too low to start the race...

So I'm back in paradise (Aniseed Valley, NZ) for a brief few days...sorting everything out before I'm back off to the trenches in Europe for a new season. The last few months have been as hectic as any I can remember but bloody good at the same time!

It's been close to a few months since I updated this thing and a lot has happened. I've only raced twice since the last post - one was 3 weeks long and the other...the longest single day on the bike in my life!