VIDEO: Caroline Buchanan and the Australian BMX team try their hands at surfing... The results are not so good haha.

Coming down off a massive high of winning the MTB World Championships I hung the bike on the wall and got back on my brand new titanium Commencal BMX frame. Commencal are my mountain bike sponsor and have made a prototype BMX frame for me and its beautiful. Stiff, perfect angles, looks great and is super light weight.

Chula Vista Supercross track is the biggest track on the world cup circuit. The 1st jump is 13m long!! last year I didn't make it through the quarter finals and was quite intimidated by the track. This year I was more prepared and eager to race. I had a solid qualifying time trial run placing 5th which gave me some good world cup and Olympic country points for Australia.

Come race day I was trying to build off the energy of the crowd but found myself feeling a little flat. I qualified through the quarter final rounds progressing to the semi final top 16 where I made some costly minor mistakes not progressing into the final. Placing in the top 12 for me a disappointing result however I am still sitting in 2nd in the overall world cup ranking with one more round to go in Frejus France (3 weeks) My goal is to finish in the top 3 girls in the overall World Cup series.

Keep you posted :) CB

• By Allan H