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I won something recently, I had a **** off great big dog attached to my bike though, which helped. That's teamwork.
The only thing I'm fast at currently is emptying my bowels, some bug or other giving me the runs but with no stomach pain, since Friday night!
I have a KOM. (yes, that's "a" as in singular)
No-one is more surprised then me.
The older you are, the fastest you were.
I think I peaked in about 2013/14... at one point I was mid-teens in XC. I’ve pretty much stopped training with any sort of intensity for the last year or two. After 20 years of flogging myself it was time for a rest, I wanted to be home more rather than away without the wife every weekend for 6 months of the year, I got the travelling bug (with the wife!) - plus work crept up on me so I didn’t feel like going for a 3hr ride in the dark 3 times a week all winter... Not done an XC race in 18 months and as long as the courses are so uninspiring and short I don’t see that changing. The only events I did in the U.K. last year were Mayhem and Battle on the Beach. If Gravel Dash didn’t keep clashing with marathons in europe I’d be there too. These days I go over to the continent half a dozen times a year and bimble round some proper courses in proper mountains. Roc Ardennes, Tiliment Marathon Bike, MB Race, Alps Bike Festival, Grand Raid Cristalp, Malevil Cup, Volcatt, Extreme Sur Loue, La Tramun... I was doing quite well at Tramun this year until I stopped for 10 minutes to enjoy the cheese, the crackers and the view at a feed station 🙂
I just posted 31 Strava PR's at Swinley this morning, in the shit.
I'm on the way up obvs. 😉