Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Canada (MSA race)

Well...well...well the race day started out well with a good warm up, i was feeling a little sluggish but not too bad. The start wasn't the best i was about 8th in the first single d. moving past a mexican holding us up in the techo sections, allowed me to chase back onto the lead group (it pays to drop the power off the start). so things were going ok i had moved up to 5th and was climbing and decending well, the crowd was awesome at the "squirel" section which is a sketchy rock shoot. So on the fastest and my most favourite decent of the track i heard a loud snap and looked back and there was my seat post tumbling down the hill 30m behind me, the feed zone was only about a km away so i left it and went on seat post less. When getting to the zone i knew Neils bike's post would be too big, so borrowing a post from the Canadian tech crew was the only option, only it didnt have a seat on it so we had to take the seat off Neils bike and put it on this post so it took a while but im thankful of everyones assistance. riding off again i gained about four posis when crack the seat slipped and pointed striaght up, thankfully there were two tech zones so i decided to go on and fix it there, so this we did, and i was back on my way again. The legs and head were shagged i gained another 3 posis and fished in 15th all in all a tough day. I am now in Bromont in a fancy hotel that we are not staying in but stealing there wireless and swimming in there pool, today and yesterday were graet in terms of weather today we cut to laps of the track its not to techo just taxing on the body, and a 15 min climb straight out of the box. I will up date soon but that is all for now im off to soak up some rays. later

1 comment:

  1. bad luck with the mechanical - I knew you were flying by the way you smoked it at Sparrow before you left. Great result anyway - looking good for worlds -
    cheers
    James

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