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| On the train! |
Last weekend was the British National Championships held at the brilliant venue of Llangollen, Wales. My Dad was in wales the whole week leading up to the event because he was at the Welsh Royal show with
WigWam Cabins. We got the train down on Friday to crewe and my Dad picked us up from there and we headed straight to Llangollen. That evening we went to walk the track as the hostel we were staying in was just 5 minutes from the venue. The track looked steep! They had to put ropes to the side of the track just so people could walk up. It looked amazing and I was really looking forward to the next days practice.
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| Steepness |
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| The car was fairly full |
Saturday morning and we got up early, had some weetabix and headed to to the race, after signing on and changing my tyres to spikes I headed up to the track, from my first run. The track was amazing and a fair bit longer than the old one, the uplift was still just as slow though so we spent the whole day trying to do as many runs as possible, which in the end was only five. Nevertheless I felt practice day went really well and I had all my lines ready for racing.
Sunday morning came round and after another early start we were at the race. I only managed 1 practice run before my race run after heading up to the top for a second and being told to wait there until seeding runs. My seading run was pretty horrible but I didnt crash and came in seventh. I then had a 3 hour wait until my final run. I spent this time getting something to eat, resting and letting my mechanic, Joe, know what I wanted done to my bike so I could have a flawless run. Nearing my run, I fueled up on
Clif Bar energy bars and left to take the long journey to the top. I got to the top for my race run and was feeling pretty nervous, my name was called and I headed to the start gate, beep beep beep and I was off. I had a pretty solid run, nothing particularly fast, but also no major mistakes. I crossed the line and went into the hot seat, 6 seconds up. I ended up in fourth just under a second from the podium. An extremely solid result and I feel I am finally getting myself sorted on how to put together a race run. Bring on glencoe!
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| Blue skies as my dad set up his trade stand |
I'd like to thank all my sponsors for helping me get to this stage in racing,
O'neal,
Crank Brothers,
Clif Bar,
2pure.co.uk and
WigWam Holidays.
Last weekend was the British National Championships held at the brilliant venue of Llangollen, Wales. My Dad was in wales the whole week leading up to the event because he was at the Welsh Royal show with WigWam Cabins. We got the train down on Friday to crewe and my Dad picked us up from there and we headed straight to Llangollen. That evening we went to walk the track as the hostel we were staying in was just 5 minutes from the venue. The track looked steep! They had to put ropes to the side of the track just so people could walk up. It looked amazing and I was really looking forward to the next days practice.
Sunday morning came round and after another early start we were at the race. I only managed 1 practice run before my race run after heading up to the top for a second and being told to wait there until seeding runs. My seading run was pretty horrible but I didnt crash and came in seventh. I then had a 3 hour wait until my final run. I spent this time getting something to eat, resting and letting my mechanic, Joe, know what I wanted done to my bike so I could have a flawless run. Nearing my run, I fueled up on Clif Bar energy bars and left to take the long journey to the top. I got to the top for my race run and was feeling pretty nervous, my name was called and I headed to the start gate, beep beep beep and I was off. I had a pretty solid run, nothing particularly fast, but also no major mistakes. I crossed the line and went into the hot seat, 6 seconds up. I ended up in fourth just under a second from the podium. An extremely solid result and I feel I am finally getting myself sorted on how to put together a race run. Bring on glencoe!
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