It's been waaaaay too long since I last posted on here. Unfortunately due to working/exams I missed a few of the races this season. The last two weeks have been a little different though. First off was the Fort Bill Endurance Downhill race, basically how many runs can you do in 6 hours. I was there having my own race with Ace from Hardtail Nation. As the only two guys to race the whole day on our, less than suitable bikes, we were both awarded with a spot prize at the end of the day. After throwing myself at a big rock on my first run I was forced to take the rest of the day pretty easy, but still managed to squeeze 10 runs in. Ace who blew his rear tyre twice got 9.
After Fort Bill I spent half the week laid up in bed after my body started to complain about me riding for another 5 and a half hours after such a big crash. Thankfully I recovered enough to make it down to Inners for the last round of the SDA. With a rather long, flat and very pedally track, things were deffinately looking up for me on the hardtail.
My first run went pretty well and I was somewhere near the bottom of the standings. Second runs came round, and it was one of those moments that everything just comes together for the perfect ride and I knocked 12seconds off my first run. This put me 34th in Senior, roughly where I was placing on the full sus last year!
Expect to see full reports on both events in the next issue of Wideopen Mag. I'll also give you a peek at my new rig sometime next week.... Today I'm off to the Uni sports fair to sign up all the keen young freshers to the bike club. Then next weekend we'll be taking them all to Glentress and Inners so if you're heading up that weekend look out for the group of about 30 students on bikes.
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