"I couldn't have done much more in training than I have," she said. "I haven't raced these girls since last year so I've no idea where I'm at compared to them. I just know I'm riding as good as I've ever ridden really around the rest of the track; it's just whether I can get a start."
To that end, Walker has been training with world champion time trialler, and London bronze medallist, Laura Smulders in the Netherlands, and liked what she achieved with her starts, the area she know she needs to sharpen up.
Walker is reluctant to put a specific placing down as a satisfactory outcome this week. She simply doesn't know how she's tracking compared to her rivals. And she admitted to finding it "kind of weird" that she's in a good head space considering her time away from the sport.
Her body is "as good as it's ever going to get. At the end of the day I can hold my bars, I can ride and do the things I need to to perform at my best."
Walker needs to accumulate ranking points with her eye on Rio. She's racing in Sweden in three weeks, then Argentina and the United States and can't afford to miss any racing.
She's chasing consistency in the coming months and certainly has the class to make a rapid rise - just as long as she stays on her bike.
