Update, Covid & No Racing!
Whats up website people?
Thank you for visiting, its been a while since I last published an update and I will let you know why. So, as we all know the World has been hit with covid19, everything has shut down and only over the past 4 weeks have things started to pick up. My website is a place I want people to visit so they can see what I have been up to in an exciting manor, let’s face it, the last 5 months have been nothing exiting at all, I want you guys to feel like your visit to my website has been worth while and as such its means you will return, constantly posting that I have been out training isn’t something that I feel will lead to this, so that’s why the website hasn’t been updated for some time.
So know your probably thinking there must be some exciting news coming or a super rad update, well maybe, maybe not, there is no racing going on, I’m out riding all the time and I’m having mega fun, I have meet some rad people over the last few weeks but honestly I’m seriously missing the racing circus, and deep down I know 2020 is over but I’m keeping faith and I hope that we get some sort of race series soon.
So what have I been up to? Covid19 has given us interesting times, lucky for me I live in riding distance to Cannock Chase, I have been able to safely get out throughout the whole of lockdown, at the start I mainly just rode fire roads and excluded anything that could potentially cause myself any injury / add pressure to the hospitals, as the restrictions got relaxed I started to ride some known trails, these have a few features but things I have ridden before so they do increase the risk but it’s still relatively low.
Once we could start to travel I headed to FOD (Forest of Dean) to meetup with an awesome group of girls that ride under the Dirt Sisters of Shred banner, this was an excellent meetup, loads of fun, great trails and for once riding with other people and not just my dad! The meetup went so well we have had another meetup since and we also have a meetup scheduled for this weekend and flyup417, so I’m really excited for that, if your there come say hello 😊
I have some mega news and I’m super super excited about that but for now I have to keep my mouth shut, once everything clicks into place you guys will be the first to know.
Lastly, and it’s a bit of sad news, I have had to remove the Instagram feed from the home page, Instagram have made some changes and unfortunately its no longer possible to pull my images to my website ☹
I think that’s enough waffle for now, as always massive thank you to everyone that supports me.
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2nd Race of the year, when will the next one be?
After all the hard work throughout winter (ok having fun but this has to be serious right?), training, sponsor talks, preseason racing, kit design, bike builds and everything else that it takes to get you ready for season, it was time to get it all together and head on over to round one of the Midlands XC championship at the awesome Dudmaston woods venue. My preseason training has been going well, the race I completed a couple of weeks ago put me in a very positive frame of mind, I was ready for the challenge, I never take anything for granted and a new season equals new competition and unknows.
The timetable for 2020 has been shuffled about, as a result I race now much later with a scheduled race time of 2pm. We headed over early as I wanted to watch the youth categories, catchup with friends, walk the course and generally soak in the atmosphere and get ready for my race. The weather was ok, fairly warm and only a little bit of rain in the air so it was all good, surprisingly given the weather we have been having lately the course was in excellent condition, slippy in a couple of places but hey this is MTB!
I headed off to walk the course, it was the same as the final race last year so I was happy with the layout, it’s always a good mix at Dudmaston, fast, flowing with some good climbs to get the legs and lungs working, racing was still continuing while I was walking so it great to see line choice and how people attacked the different sections. After I walked the course I headed back to the van and had my lunch, got changed and took my bike for a ride and counted down the time to my race.
Racing time! Annoyingly due to running late we ended up riding a much shorter course than planning but it was the same for all, due to the course change we had to complete a lap of practice so I headed out early and got back and setup on the front row. The whistle blew and I pushed super hard and got myself upfront with the lead boys, I chased them hard, by the end of the first lap I had pulled a 24 second lead over the 2nd place female, with lap times around the 3 minute mark I knew I had to be consistent and keep pushing. As we entered the 3rd lap I was still pushing, on each lap I was increasing my advantage by a comfortable margin over 2nd place. As the laps ticked away, I continued to push hard, after 6 laps the chequered flag went out and I took my first win of the season!
I really enjoyed my day but with the current situation I’m really not sure on when the next race will be, I will keep working hard in my training room and looking forward more than ever the return to racing circus.
Stay safe people, see you on the other side!
As always, a massive thank you to my sponsors/supporters, during these difficult times if you’re looking for spare parts or kit then please support my sponsors, everyone is being affected;
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links can be found under the partner's tab.
Thanks for reading.
Mazie Moo Moo
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