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		<title>World Champs: Day 2 – My Race!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Today was amazing. I couldn’t be more happy. 11th place in the Under 23 Woman is something I would have never thought possible two months ago. YaY!!!
The support all around the track was fantastic – thanks everyone who came out today and made some noise! It was blimmen tough out there on such a powerful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Champs: Day 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 World Mountain Bike Championships have started here in Mont Sainte Anne. The weather is hot as and the humidity is crazy – I have never been in anything like it! We have been having copious cold showers and still the core body temperature is baking. This has affected the track too… transforming it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSA</title>
		<link>http://samarasheppard.com/?p=815</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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This week I have been in Mont Sainte Anne preparing for the world mountain bike championships that kick off next Wednesday with the team relay. My race will be on Thursday morning at 10am – 2am NZ time. The weather here is starting to scorch up over 30 degrease so it looks like we will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racer Bikes Cup</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished 11th overall, 3rd Under 23 rider and was 8min 43sec behind the winning race time of Katrin Leumann – 1h39min.  It is a great result but part of me feels a little disappointed with how I raced. My legs were feeling great but my head space was lacking a lot confidence. All things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grindelwald</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the weekend Mario took me to Grindelwald (Switzerland) &#8211; a cool little town in the Alps where the Eiger bike-challenge was taking place.
Marathon XC racing in Switzerland is huge and the Eiger bike series is the national series here that draws big fields and crowds. Thanks to the Organisers and Mario I was given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good times in Sursee</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I am having a blast in Switzerland &#8211; thanks to Mario, the team at Intercycles, Matt and Wolfy (who I am yet to meet)! Mario and his wife Franci have been very kind in letting me stay with them and making me feel comfortable here. So I thought I would show you what has been happening&#8230; This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quiet week in Morzine&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://samarasheppard.com/?p=714</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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This past week I have &#8220;just been existing in Morzine&#8221; – as Rankin puts it. I.e. having a quiet week; sleeping, eating and training, stress free with no distractions&#8230; the simple life.
 It has actually been nice and perfect timing to restock my energy levels after all the action that has been packed in the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy World Cup</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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﻿What a great way to end a top week! I am really happy with my race today, it was tough and there are definitely areas I can improve on but for the first time ever I actually feel like I am good enough to be racing at a world cup level. May the progress continue! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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This week has been amazing, beyond what I could have ever hoped! The Belgium team has been so comforting, treating me like one of the team riders; together we have been going training, eating, sleeping, learning the track, hanging out, swimming… I have even been receiving massages and the mechanics &#8211; they cleaned me bike!!! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Champery World Cup</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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This was my first ever world cup and it was wild! Tapped out off the line and then BOOM! It was just nuts, fighting for position the rest of the way. I loved it – this is how racing is meant to be.  Tough as! All the thick mud forced everyone on and off their [...]]]></description>
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