Well it was another great weekend of racing!
I woke up at 4AM on Saturday and drove out to get to Mount Snow early so as not to get caught in the rain!… which it poured!
The track was pretty much the same as the previous race last year but now it had been ridden in a bit more, it was wet and a bit muddy and I had an awesome time slipping and sliding the whole way down.
The track I was told is going to be part of the National champs track which is great but its very tiring and for the Nationals I hear its even longer!!…. so I have already started training.
It of course started to down pour nearer to the afternoon and by then I had already packed up and was sitting in the hotel room… pretty great planning if I say so… I went to the spa and sat in the steam room for about an hour… stellar…
Anyways came time to the race Sunday.. the rain was holding off which was great but I was the last one off so I had to expect the track to change a little…. I had waited about 4 hours but time came for my start.
I had a very fast start as I raced down the fast straight away, jumping and charging with no fear in me as I entered the woods I started to get to the point where you go from being tired to anerobic so I started to loose a little focus but I still kept charging and considering that there was a lot of flat root sections you had to power over I was getting a little on the edge. As I was getting close to half way I made a HUGE mistake and actually thought I lost it right there, my front tire hit a bit of soft mud which guided my front tire off the trail right before a long flat root and mud section so I had to get the bike back on the trail and then get my speed back up which was almost impossible as I stumbled around trying with all my energy to get my speed back up but, quickly I got back on track and had a clean and smooth bottom half and as I exited out of the woods I saw that I had caught the rider in front of me which kind of gave me a boost of confidence as he had a minute gap.. I had a long road section to the finish and I thought if I could catch up to him I could draft him and gain some speed up but, I never could.. my legs were done and I was spinning out with my small gearing I entered into the arena and turned out I was the leader!!! So I had WON!! by 2 seconds over fast Pro rider Ben Moody.
I was pretty stoked that even with a major mishap I had pulled it out still.. also that we had one of the best races for Morewood Bikes as we had a rider on every podium just about!! was crazy…
So ya thats it for now I had no pictures unfortunately but there should be some floating around the web?
Cheers..
