That wraps up the CX season, I havn’t written much in a while, as half the
time I havn’t been in the UK in the last few weeks I’ve been in the UK, France,
Belgium and Holland, with Team GB.
A week after the nationals at was announced that I had been
selected for another world cup and the world championships which is a massive achievement
for me and would be a massive learning step to getting closer to a pro contract
one day and a taste of living the dream.
The weekend after the national champs was the last National trophy
race, at Shrewsbury, this course I have raced on many times and know it like
the back of my hand, on arrival it was frozen and file treads where the tyre of
choice but the sun came out and it was rhinos, it was very muddy, my start was
poor but it was around 1.5km before the
course got tight so I had plenty of time, I moved up slowly and there were
three of us away, and slowly it was just two, me and joe, the course didn’t suit
me as it was flat, and being a smaller rider I just couldn’t get away and joe
could put some time into me on the flat, and on the last lap he put a big dig
in, which I just couldn’t respond to, and he took the win by 9 seconds and me
finishing 2nd and 2nd overall in the series.
The following weekend I was off to the last round of the
world cup in hoogerheide (Holland) the course was one that in practice rode nicely
but in the race, it was mega hard, it was a very very muddy course which didn’t
suit me to well, also ended up running a lot, my start wasn’t great, but slowly
moved up feeling good, but on either the 2nd or 3rd lap, I
lost control on a muddy section and went straight into the barrier and bent my
lever and put the front brake on, so after a struggle to the pits and many
places lost I finished in 45 6 minutes down so not really my day.
The Sunday evening I returned home, and that following Wednesday
I was off to Belgium for the world championships, on Thursday on Friday we had a road ride in
the morning then course practice in the afternoon, I had got the course drilled
and was feeling very good, but the night before the race I wasn’t feeling great
so I went to bed and hoped to sleep it off, but I woke up at 11 and threw up,
and over the next 7 hours I didn’t get
any sleep and was either sick or on the loo, at 6 I managed to fall asleep
and was up at 7 but I was I no state to race, and other riders had the same,
looks like it was food poisoning, even some of the staff were out, I was gutted
as I was looking forward to having a good race I was hungry to race, but the
wraps up my CX season
That’s 16 podiums 8 wins and my
best international results of 28th and 2nd overall in the
national series and 1st overall in the national rankings
