70km Highlander
This weekend was the return of the N-Duro Highlander this year however it was doubed as the NZMtb Marathon Champs, a lack of advertizing on bikenz's behalf kept the numbers pretty low, but with a bit of last minute advestising from N-Duro events the race got the numbers to run a race.
Sunday dawned pooring with rain, it was the first decent rain for months so it was much needed and the trails were sucking it up nicely. On the start line the rain stayed away and it was very humid and very warm but mid race it started pooring again and the race got slippery.
Right from the go a bunch of 5 of us slipped away at a settled pace after 30 mins Sam Shaw slipped off the front and I began to chase him been careful not to over do it after an hour and a half I had caught back up to him we rode togther for the next we 10km before he hit one of the main climbs hard, my legs were feeling it and I had to continue at the pace I was riding at. By the time I got to the end I was compleatly wrecked getting abit of cramp and had a very sore body and settling for 2nd.
Katie also had her first race back her new superfly turned up on friday and we set it up for her to ride, she slipped into the 20km race and won, but was along way off where she wants to be at. but she is coming back pretty quickly now trying to get a good base for europe :-)
Carl
No comments:
Post a Comment