I love my new Specialized ERA!!!! I raced on it for the first time this past weekend and it was great!!!!


Ya-Chan and I went down to Aichi Prefecture to race and do a Sweet Riders mini clinic. Here we are in our new team colors for 08!! Pretty sweet!!!! We didn't expect to find all of Japan's elite XC female racers in attendance..... so it was really like an official JCF XC. We were a little nervous..... but needless to say we finished the race and I didn't get lapped!! That made me very happy and it was the first time I wore a POLAR heart rate monitor (thanks to my sponsor) in years and I got to see my maximum heart rate again....wow what a shock! The last time I saw that was about 10 years ago.......

After the race, we were both pretty wiped but we had clinics to do so off we went. We ended up doing three clinics ....... it was great fun! Thanks to those who participated and thanks to Ya-Chan for all her help and efforts!!!

Driving home which takes about 4 hours, we cranked up the tunes and hit the highway, until next year's gold cup enjoy the rest of the pictures here!