Our international competitions for 2006 started with a Grand Prix held in Newport in Wales. In the Women's Tandem Sprint, Ellen Hunter and I came up against the Aussie team of Lindy Hou and Janelle Lindsay who had beaten us to the Gold medal in Athens the year before. We triumphed 2:0 as we tactically held the Aussies on our hip around the steep bankings before unleashing our power to get to the line first in both heats.
We then travelled back to Manchester to take part in the 2006 VISA Paralympic World Cup. Our first event of the night was the Flying 200m TT, which for some reason or another isn't our best event. We were hoping to get under 12 seconds for this distance but only managed 12.044, with the Aussies winning in a time of 11.952. This made us more determined to do a world breaking time in our main event, the 1km TT. The World Record for the 1km TT, held by ourselves is 1:11.16 and we have held this since we won Gold in Athens. However we did break this record in training a couple of weeks ago and had done a 1:11.00, so the aim was to at least match this time.
We were really fired up for this and we got the tandem off to a good start but then the back wheel slipped as we went around the first bend which will have lost us a bit of time. However we didn't panic and we kept pedalling as fast as we could. It was a great night for doing times as it was really warm and the track was fast. We crossed the line in a time of 1:10.431, a New World Record! The Assuies did 1:13.409. 
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