After a few days of recovery around Nelson it was off down south to Coronet Peak for an XC race on the 6th of January. It was all sunshine and tan lines, not the same as back here in Wellington where you get greeted with full force winds and rain!!?? Its sooooo easy to train when the weather is like that.
It was my first mtb race as pro-elite, this meant I got to race against at least three times more riders than last season… making it at least three times harder!!!! Yet again it was another learning race, having 5 laps instead of 3 meant I had to keep the smack down for a lot longer and potentially eat some food along the way… that last part didn’t happen but like I said ….. learning. Continue reading ‘Coronet Peak’
Well ive finally got round to posting about the races I did over the xmas break in the sunny south island.
On the 28th – 30th of December I was down in Nelson competing in my first ever road tour (Tour de Femme). Supported by Trevor and Jill (she with a gin relaxing in the sun) and using my blingy carbon Jamis road bike, I was really really nervous. Would I get dropped, would I crash, would I break something. It was a great trip and I definitely learnt a lot… particularly if you use up too much energy in the first three stages then the fourth stage, a 19km flat time trial is not going to feel like lightning. The amount of bling I saw throughout the tour was enough to put 50cent to shame, everything from the fully furnished TT bikes with disk wheels down to the aero dynamic helmets and skin suits… I didn’t even have aero bars……this time!!!! Them roadies like them skin-suits even more than XC riders (or those closet DH’s that bring them out at the big bike races – you know you love it!!!)… Plus roadies seem to love to put the hammer down now and then, just to test everybody’s legs, on off on off – come on make up your mind…
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