Timelaps results
Lloyd a superb 6th in Masters champs. Hollie 4th in Youths.
Both Hollie and I raced at Dalby forest at the weekend in the 2nd round of the National points series, the race was billed as a world cup test event as they are hoping to get a round of the world cup there in 2010 in respect of this the course had been purposley built and was an absolute animal. There were massive drop offs, rock strewn gullys, rooty descents ,huge climbs (3 over 25%) rock gardens, log steps, raised wood sections and a BMX track thrown in at the end just to keep you on your toes, im pretty sure the course will be just as testing for the pros as it was for us.
Hollie raced in the morning and was a little nervous, we had pre rode the course the day before so she knew it was going to be tough, she started well and after the fisrt opening loop came through in 6th place already clearly being pushed to the limits by the extreme nature if the course, at the end of her first lap she was still in 6th place and decided to up her pace a bit and soon moved into 5th place which looked as if it would be her finishing posistion but a mistake and a crash by one of the girls in front elevated Hollie into 4th place at the finish. Hollie was extremely relieved to finish her race this was the most demading course and terrain she had ever rode and as a result of her position she is now ranked #1 youth in the country pretty good for her first year in the top flight.
My race was in the afternoon and after a rain shower the conditions on track were made just a little harder, i was hoping to at least repeat my performace from the first round and make it into the top ten. My start wasnt the best and came through after the first lap in about 15th place, with the field spreading out it gave me an opportunity to start riding a little quicker and i started picking off some of the riders in front i was loving the course and was noticably quicker on the climbs and technical descents by the time i came through to start lap 3 i had moved up to 6th place and could even see 4th place in front, icaught and passed 5th place at the start of lap 4 and started to chase down 4th but on the final climb all the effort hit me hard and i began to tire unfortunately i was caught and a final dig by my rival meant i had to settle for 6th place at the finish. i can honestly say this was as near to faultless peformance i have ever done everything came together on the day perfectly, i only hope it will happen again, can it get better than this, well, i was only 52 seconds away from standing on the podium........ BigRing.
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