Race day dawned with much excitement. Grant from Team Adrenaline Cycles had rounded up the XCO team mates and had brought the noise! We had a sweet gazebo set up and with the help of Andre from Rush Sports everything was looking really professional. I was really excited and looking forward to what the track would be like and with that I completed two practice runs, both of them being clean runs and so I settled down, tucked into my water melon and waited for my first race run.
The first race run was intense. On the top part of the track everything was going smoothly until I miss judged a corner that had been rutted up and the burm that had formed during practice had been demolished by someone, I lost my front wheel and fell to the ground but got up quicker than I had gone down. I battled to find my rhythm for the rest of the track and was not too pleased with my run of 1min43.43 seconds, I was a little bit off the pace but if I could have a perfect second run I could at least have a top 5 result.
Second race run I had to make it faultless. I got my lines dialed and was feeling really good on the Morewood. I pedaled in places which I hadn't in my first race run and it seemed as if it had payed off at the end. Out of breath and eager to hear my final time, the commentator announced it. My final time of the day was 1min:38.94secs narrowly missing second place by only 3 split seconds but I was happy with my result.
All in all it was an awesome event and a big thanks given to Morne and the rest of the people who made this event possible, but more than anything I'd like to thank Grant and Matt from Adrenaline Cycles for making sure the bike had no problems, and another big thanks must go to Andre from Rush Sports for putting my awesome bike together!
Photos: Stephanie Davies- Radiate Sports Photography
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