Welcome back to the rest day with Jack Egg. This is going to be a bit of a different

episode. This time it's just myself. I'm not chatting to anyone else. I sat down about a week and a half two weeks ago and just sort of recorded a bit of a

solar podcast talking about the first part of this season in Europe, sort of how I've been struggling a little bit, how being a professional

athlete can be quite hard sometimes. But the good news is I'm starting to feel quite a bit better.

The team's being supportive of getting me back on track and

I just thought it would be interesting to share some insights and

share everybody that it's not necessarily always just sunshine and rainbows as a professional cyclist and

you go through bad periods where sometimes you have no idea why but it is what it is and I hope you guys can take something out of this episode.

If you like it, let me know and I'll try and do maybe a couple more of these

check-ins throughout the year.

I hope you enjoy. I started my season off in Australia in Turdandah and when we're kind of setting

out the goals and objectives for my season we said that Down that wasn't going to be a massive objective

and that we were just going to go there to use it as a racing experience and be in a long time

since I've been back to Australia and I just wanted to go back to Australia to be honest and spend a month being back there and just getting some racing in the sunshine instead of being in the European winter and we didn't really put a big emphasis on

making sure that I was going to be at a top level fitness for that race. But obviously I'm Australian. I went to two out under I wanted to do quite well and

I managed to finish 10th overall in GC which not a bad result not a great result but a solid result to start the season with in a world to a stage race and then I spent a tiny bit longer in Australia to see some more friends in Melbourne and sort of hang out a little more and avoid coming back to the European winter especially where I live in Andorra. January February can be pretty miserable for training on the bike. It's great for skiing but for bike riding.

It's not so nice. And then I came back to Europe, actually rented an Airbnb for a little bit just outside

Gerona. I normally don't spend very much time in Gerona but I wanted to make sure

that I wasn't going from the Australian summer back to minus 5 to 3 degrees in

And I thought maybe it'd be a little bit better for training and my body to go to

drone aware it would be not quite as cold and a little bit easier.

And I started preparing for my European Block of Racing which was going to start off in Welter and Lucia, which eventually

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