Video...

The video from the last 2 MTB Races.

Another good weekend...

There is not much to report on from the weekend, another MSG Warm up race win in the adult category.

I dont have any pictures but i'll upload a video shortly.

First road race of 2011...

Its been two weeks without racing and today i competed in my first road race of 2011.

Road is not a strong point of mine, especially at hog hill. But i do them for training and to try and build up stamina. Over 2011 i am aiming to spread 5 road race out over march-june so i hope to improve as i go.

Ive gone into the U16 for road as well now so i am in with some pretty big lads, and as the start whistle went i was tucked in around the middle of the bunch trying to keep in that position. I highly doubted that i would stay with them for the race but i was not going to settle for being dropped after a lap. 

A couple of attacks went off the front with nobody chasing as the wind would catch them before we did but it was like all of a sudden everyone attacked and i simply didnt have the speed to keep with them. I found myself in a group of four with the others all in my category. We kept a consistent pace and the gap of around ten seconds to the main bunch neither grew nor shrunk but what held us back was a rider in the group refusing to take a turn. 

Normally, this wouldnt bother me so much as we are only youth and its not that serious, but he was shouting at us "Come on lets work together and catch them". Please, correct me if i am wrong but normally when some says 'let's' that means that they are involving themselves in the activity no? This kid was determined to sit in so me and another rider decided between us to attack and catch the group of U14's that we were about to lap. We sat in with them until the two from the original 4 caught up again and then we attacked again, just to annoy them (Bit cheeky).

 The rider i attacked with was really strong and i was going nearly 100% to stay with him and then i had a stitch, which was exactly the wrong time to get one. I was then alone in the wind, struggling with a stitch and decided to wait for the U14's group to recover before going again. 

Im not sure where i finished, and im not really bothered as road is training for me, although i would like to stay with the front group next time! 

Im doing a local MTB race tomorrow as training for the first national race coming up at the end of the month and then will be doing a few months of base training!

Thanks for reading!

Ciao