BIKE FEST

Well last year was my first Bike Fest and we got third in the paired 12 hour event and the plan was to come back stronger, Sadly even getting to the start was a long shot as i picked up a bug the weekend before what would keep me house bound all week, no riding, no work and proper ill it looked like i would not start, night before i made my mind i was going to the event and see how it went, well we did race and it was hard, the wet start made it a lot harder race than last year and the teams were a lot closer as we battled all day long, I might not have been as strong as i wanted but we kept putting out the best laps we could and we ended up 3rd again.

 Above and Bellow: early in the race on a wet slick trail

 above and bellow: later stages of the race, keeping the pace high.

above: 3rd place, epic race..

Bellow: rocking the retro @rocky mountain bicycles top on the last lap.

Road update

We raced the Thursday night Iton race and it lived up to its rep as a crash fest, mid race sprint would see three riders hit the floor and then on the last lap a crash mid way around would see more slide along the floor, as for me i stayed near the front and jumped off the front a few times and had a great workout, Next up Stags head road race with some good climbing it was a real good race, i ended up in the chase group and one of the strongest riders, Maybe my strongest showings so far this year as we gear up for BikeFest!!

blind first run of the day

spring photo bomb.

The long road.. update

(Grand Fondo)

(west point)

Over the last few weeks we raced at West point, this was a mid week race and we ended up holding my line and another rider hit me, he went down and i was lucky to stay up, we would end up in the second small group but still lapped a few riders in the short 40min race, On to the Somerset Grand Fondo and a 123 miles of hilly riding with buddy Dan, Have to say i loved it, bloody hard work and came in 20th, Will be back next year for sure, then it was the Avon road race, off with the lead group and feeling good, dropped my chain but pushed on rather than wait for the second group to catch, Sadly i followed the arrows and like a few others ended at a mx race! lol, i went and did another lap before calling it a day before the rain came in, Less than a month now till BikeFest and so we have been on the Rocky Mountain XC bike a few times and loving it, Should be a good event if i can train well in the coming weeks.

slick trails after the rain

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