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June Update
Posted Friday 12th June 2009  by Matthew
I apologise for not keeping but blog up to date, but this is the first time I've been able to catch some spare time for a while.   I came back to the UK in January so I could prepare for the new season. I knew that Edinburgh would be looking for a new captain, but I never thought that they would ask me. I was over the moon when John Campbell called and I accepted the role right away.   I started my UK career with Edinburgh in 2003 as a 17 year old straight out of school. I was only supposed to come over and ride in their Conference League and get a taste of UK racing, and I see the Captaincy as the next step of my progress with the club.   It was a bad start to the season when in my very first race (at Kings Lynn) I blew an engine. Things could only improve from there couldn't they? Since then I feel my racing has been going well enough, but there's always room for improvement.   More recently, we've been to Sheffield and Somerset where I had some decent results. Last week I got my "Armadale" engine back from my tuner and had my best home meeting of the year so far... lets hope I have lots more like it. It was great to get a paid max as I had been struggling at home whilst using a different engine.   June is probably going to be my quietest month of the season, I'm hoping that the good weather will continue so I can get my Aussie tan back and have some fun in the sun.