National Cyclocross Championships.

A very important race this was for me, I’ve had good consistent results throughout the season and this day was a big day, it was selections for the World Cyclocross Championships in a few weeks’ time and the national title was up for grabs, so all was on the line.

On the Saturday I pre-rode the course to get a good feel of it after my road ride in the morning and got everything dialled in, on the morning of the race I got a few more laps in to see if anything had changed on the course, it had, it had dried out a lot more so I put some faster tyres on, I had a good warm up and a lot of prerace encourage meant from friends & family such as the like of my girlfriend Pip & my coach Dan fleeman from (Forme coaching) whom earlier this week we had a heated discussion on my training for the week prior to it but I listened and everything turned out ok, “so listen to you coach he knows best”

I got to the start line feeling focused and ready to race, my start was good a quick, I got into 3^rd into the first corner then fell back a bit on the straight to around 6^th place, and the pace was increasing at the front, so I got a move on and got myself on the gas for the next few laps and got myself into second chasing the defending champion hugo with around 2.5 laps to go I got to hugo, and shared the work with him for a bit, but after chasing for a while my legs were started to cramp and couldn’t respond as quickly to the fast accelerations out of the corners as hugo was, I started to lose his wheel and he realised this and put his foot down for the last lap and a half and got away, I had three riders behind working together to chase me down, and I had to go as hard as I could without cramping, and I lost out by 5 seconds to first and the guys behind me were 8 seconds behind me. I was shattered, it was a good race and a very entertaining one as it was all so close, I’m delighted with the second but unhappy that I lost,

Following on from that I have been selected for the World Championships in Koksijde for Great Britain which I’m delighted about, 

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