South Australian cycling champion Annette Edmondson is home after months of intense training in Spain and her mind is on the track and a new role.
Edmondson, 26, went straight to the Adelaide Super Dome for a track session just hours after stepping off the plane this week and will do the same every day for the next two months, taking a break only on Christmas Day.
She’ll average three and a half hours on the track and in the gym daily in the lead-up to the Track Cycling World Championship in Poland in February. But a key goal is the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
“We are training really hard at the velodrome on track bikes as well as doing gym work and sessions on the stationary trainers,” she said. “We’ll be doing long rides on the road and short, sharp efforts at the track … our focus is the team pursuit which is a four minute race.”
The focus on the track means it is unlikely she’ll take part in next month’s Tour Down Under.
“I haven’t completely ruled it out but at this stage I’m not planning on riding in it,” she said.