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SCMBC 4x2

Little events like these end up being the gems that you have to compete at year after year. This one will certainly be one of those, especially with an entry fee of only $31.50! (Take note other race organisers). Anyone who has ridden in Timaru will know how fun the trails are, especially for longer races like this one or the Timaru 10 hour. Unlike last weekend, I would certainly recommend this event to anyone. As a bonus the South Canterbury Mountain Bike Club use the funds for trail building so it's a win win for us riders! It's just ashame that after several weekends in a row of racing, I was only able to enjoy 2 hours of racing rather than the full 4!

The course was great fun for this length of time racing, the competition was crazy fast (just look at the results to see how dominant Tim Rush was...), and the weather was perfect. I probably should have been a little less relaxed about the start, as you can see from the photo, you can barely see me! I certainly don't have anything good to say about my start this week, I must have used up all the magic last week!



Unfortunately last weekends efforts at Redzone 6 aggravated my wrist injury from Tekapo last year and it left me with a seized numb hand all week. Not the most enjoyable and I was half debating whether I should have even raced but figured I'd stick my wrist brace on and see how things went. As the intro alluded to, I pulled out halfway through, but I'm not disappointed. I would rather pull out and still enjoy watching the racing than push through and be back to square one again.

All things going well my next race will be in Hanmer (wrist dependent) and then finish off the season in Naseby. I really want to be on the start line in Naseby after missing out last year due to the same wrist injury!

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