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My name is Scott Chalmers and i'm a racing cyclist from Stroud, Gloucestershire. I started riding when as a kid, like most but then I saw my dad do a mountain bike race when I was 9, thought it looked like fun and gave it a go! I did my first race in Nympsfield and thought it was great!! I did a few more here and there and at the age of 11 started racing weekly in the summer mtb series held in Ashton court in Bristol. I continued to race mtb until foot and mouth which then pushed me towards road riding. I looked for some racing and began with 10mile time trials, it was fun, but after a while needed to race with others rather than the individual test that is a 10mile TT. So I started road racing and never looked back. I moved to a new club, Chippenham Wheelers and raced with them more and more. Getting some good results in the regional races as a youth, plus also taking up cyclocross. The move up to the junior category made for more competitive racing and a busier calendar. I started to take it a little more seriously, having a go at some national races. Starting to get some more promising results. 

I had made the decision as I had turned to the very competitive under 23 category that I was going to take racing more seriously and really see how far I could get. So after a promising result in the previous years Tour Of Wales, I had made contacts with some foreign teams and had the chance to go abroad. I decided to go to Holland, with the help of Olympic gold medal winning cyclist Nicole Cooke I made the move for the year to ride for a Dutch team based in a town called Amersfoort. I raced all over Holland and parts of Belgium in 2006 and learnt so much about everything road racing. I had some promising results in 2006, with my first Road Race win in a senior race. 

In 2007 I moved to France, where the racing would suit me better and it was to be a really good year! I raced all over France, doing some of Frances biggest amateur races, plus also the Tour Of Cameroon. Rode for the French team CA Castelsarassin in '07 and again learnt massive amounts about the sport and how to ride with a big team and at a high level of racing. I also won the West of England cyclocross series during the winter months.

2008 I moved from the south of France to a small village near Nantes, riding for the team Albert Bigot 79. Again another very full on year of racing, all over the country,absolutely loving it! I managed to up my highest total mileage for a year to over 15,000 so riding was a big, big part of my year! I also won the West of England cyclocross series again in the winter.

The following year didn't quite go to plan as I had a contract with a big French team, which would have been another step up from the previous year, getting ever closer to the Professional ranks. My contract fell through within weeks of the season starting as the team had lost their main sponsors and could no longer support a team. So, I stayed in England racing for Science In Sport.com.

The next year really went wrong, with a crash during the winter had become a lot worse than previously thought. I had crashed in my second cyclocross race of the season, I had then continued to race the season out, winning the series again, but by the end of the winter season I was in a lot of Pain...this is when I first came in Contact with Anna! I found out I had twisted my pelvis and after a lot of Chiropractic treatment over months after realising the injury I was back to riding and racing. It was very tough mentally and physically, due to being used to be doing so much training and racing to doing nothing for months.

I was getting back to racing last year, with a win in a mtb race last summer and some top tens in a few road races, it looked like things were getting back to normal. Then just as it all looked good, I ripped a disc in my back..time off again, not good!! I am now back racing, riding for a new team based in Bath, Dream Cycling. Wins are starting to come again and I have to thank Anna so much for her work and I can't recommend Chiropractors enough, especially as an athlete. I continue to have treatment, to keep me in tip top condition for races...