Are you beating the clock or beating yourself up? Vicky struggles to get into a healthy race mindset. Words by Vicky Balfour Trudging along, pushing our bikes up a narrow, muddy sheep track, like extras in a low-budget zombie movie, Sonnie and I are moaning as friends do about how miserable we are. We’re two hours into the full enduro at Ard Rock, and it isn’t so much the stages that are giving me grief…

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