5th pro men
After making an important decision whether to race this round of the North Island Cup or race the third race in the N-Duro summer series here in Rotorua, I did make the choice to race Hamilton because it had more weighting towards the NZ team selection to race the World Championships in Canada later this year.
This was a different type of race being a very flat, windy and full on track. With about 80 meters of climbing per lap (normally around 200-300 for this type of race) it made a very fast race with no time to recover at all. Hamilton mountain bike climb had done a great job in making an 8km track with the area they had. This resulted in having thousands of corners and zig zags up small hills that slowly wore me out after each lap.
I had a good start and the first lap was very fast, I was only just holding on and coming close to a bike pile up after one of the front riders went down. This was a race where I really looked forward to having my coke going into the last lap because I was stuffed!
I was worried about this race but had a good day in the saddle and went home happy with my result.
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