I woke up to the sound of water drops falling on leaves outside the window. I call that nature's alarm. I stayed at team mate
Alan Hatherly's house the night before the race. Alan has been racing for a long time and every time I stay with him or train with him I learn something new. A big thank you to him and his family for having me again and helping me.
As usual it was breakfast time and then off to the race venue. I met up with
Kyle Dorkin(Ellsworth-SA) who would prove that he was the strongest of us all on the day for a warm-up session. The warm-up was quite funny with Kyle trying to take me on some of the other Giba Gorge tracks, but having to stop the whole time because he got spiderwebs stuck to his face. After the warm-up, I lined up on the start line next to Buck Norris (Evan van der Spuy) and about 13 other Junior riders.
The horn went and off we went. It was my best start ever and going up the first little hill I was lying in 5th place. Everybody was just trying to keep up with the pace of Kyle Dorkin. Lap 2 was a big tussle between Gareth Andrews and I, but on the 3rd lap he put in a little attack and managed to open a small gap. I gave it all, but my body started cramping and let me down on the hills. Meanwhile Kyle was setting a blistering pace and took the win ahead of
Patrick Belton(Jeep). I finished in 6th place, 10 minutes behind Kyle.
I have decided that I need to take a different approach to what I am eating during the days and leading up to an event... I learnt that carbo-loading can't be done the night or two before a race.
This week-end I will be racing in Sabie.
Till next time.
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