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KBAR MTB Race

To finish off the weekends events I decided to enter the Mountain Bike race on Sunday morning. I was expecting a relatively small race, with pretty much only the same competitors as the previous day in the multisport race. So I was pretty excited to see a lot of the local nelson boys had come through to race.

The race was 2 laps of the track from the previous day so I knew I would be fairly capable of keeping up in the single track as I knew the course fairly well. in total the race would be 40km with almost 1000m of climbing on sealed road, 4wd track and plenty of single track. I had a good start and was positioned in the leading bunch up the road and up the sealed section of the climb. As soon as we hit the dirt though the pace picked up and I couldnt respond after racing the day before. I held my position for the rest of the lap feeling stronger as the lap went on.


Heading in to the second lap I could a couple of riders in the distance and thought I would be able to catch them heading up the climb. Unfortunately once I hit the climb my legs didn't have the power to catch up to them. Once into the descent I pushed myself pretty hard to catch up but just ended up making mistakes and losing more time. In the end I finished 15th overall in 2:01, not a brilliant result but I raced for fun and also had a good hard training session.

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