RESULT: 1st OVERALL
I was very close to not racing on Sunday as I had been on Anti-Biotics the whole week for an infection and just for good measure as I stopped the tablets on Fri I started to get sick. Thankfully it was just a head cold and by Sunday morning I wasn’t feeling to bad so decided to give the race a go.
We arrived in Greytown to be greeted by very gloomy, cold and rainy weather. It was going to be another muddy and slippery race.
The race got off to a fairly conservative start and no one was to eager to push the pace in the cold conditions. On the first slight incline I lifted the pace a bit and 3 other riders went with me. My legs were feeling really good so on the next climb I surged again and it was down to just Andrew Warr and myself at the front.
We had a great time out front in the mud ooh’ing and aaah’ing at each others close calls and saves. We had both gone for fast rolling tyres rather then wet weather tyres, which was making things very entertaining. After the long slog up to the top of the mountain we were rewarded with some amazing single track along the side of the mountain and the ride home was pretty fast.
About 5kms out from the finish the cat and mouse games started with Andrew trying a few attacks up some of the climbs but my legs were good and I managed to stay on his wheel. I wanted to wait till the end to make my move. I lead out of the last single track, kept the pace high and turned into the final straight in front and kicked hard managing to cross the line in 1st.
It felt great to win a MTB classic again and Im having such a good time at the races so going to try fit as many as I can into my training plan.
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