Not this weekend but I did the first round of the Midweek Madness Manchester XC series at Wythenshaw Park on Wednesday, considering its a town park the course was pretty good, a couple of sections of actual man made mini features like rollers, berms and drops including one corner so tight and off camber it caused numerous people to fall off, I won't say crash as you couldn't go fast enough on that bit to actually crash, it was however flat as a pancake which in current trim suits me down to the ground 🙂
So 1hr 5mins of total thrash 'fest with 1hr 3mins of it spent at threshold, and an average speed of nearly 25kph I managed to get myself to 4th in Vets, so really can't grumble at that!
I’ve really fallen off the wagon. With the nice weather I’ve given up on zwift and ‘training’, and just been riding for fun.
this weekend I passed up the last southern xc, in favour of going to BPW on my own (I got the last ticket)
ironic because earlier in the year I passed up going to bpw with mates, so I could race southern xc.
I see the SW series have had to cancel an event for low numbers 🙁
I hope others are still enjoying getting between the tape.
I was at the SXC race but only support daughter in the u12s. Had both children and the dog so no racing for me. I need to find some events to enter but they seem rather thin on the ground.
Last couple of races have been a bit of a tale of two halves for me, on Wednesday last week I did the 3rd round of the MMW series up at Lee Quarry, it was hot, dusty, fast and awesome, legs felt ace, race went well bar being in too high a gear on the steep loose ramp on the first lap and nearly falling off backwards, but 12th placed Vet and 22nd overall in "Racer" read Open (Elite, Expert, Sport & Junior) category coupled with a cracking photo it was a good evening.
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Yesterday No.1 son and I travelled down to the Forest of Dean for the 3rd round of the Welsh National XC series encompassing the Southern area XC champs, so the fields were pretty big and strong; and boy was it hot and humid, the course was brilliant for the adults and the U12 course for the boy was probably the best XC type course I've seen for kids. He went really well as a first year U12, ending up in 10th place a little lower than usual, but with the added southern boys vying for their title its a good result.
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I however had a mare, just had nothing in the legs had a crap first lap and got progressively slower as the race went on with sweat pouring out of me and doing my best not to wrap myself round the many many trees, but as I said the course was brilliant with top notch descents and one absolute sod of a climb at nearly 1km long and up to 25% gradient that nearly killed me, I did still manage to come home in the top 20, just, in 19th place, which is always the aim, but man it hurt.
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