IT’S IN THE BLOOD
Shania Rawson is living proof of the phrase “it’s in the blood”. Her parents had her on a bicycle as soon as she was able to walk—she got her first at two years of age—and she literally grew up on a bike.
Shania began racing competitively before the rest of us had started school. Following in the footsteps of her older brother, Olympic BMX racer Kurt Pickard, she spent a decade racing the little bikes. From the ages of four through to fourteen, Shania claimed six National Championships, and during that whole ten-year period only one race slipped by where she didn’t finish in the top three. A racer of this calibre is an exciting prospect in any discipline.
With both her mum and dad racing downhill, and her brother racing BMX, it was clear from the start that Shania was destined to get into cycling in some form. She remembers being competitive from a very early age,
