Thrusday mourning me and dad flew down to Dunedin. Went and walked up and down the track after putting bike back together and emptying the car. Looked at some different lines. The track was completely different to the SI cup round there earlier this year. Pretty much the only part that was the same was the first lot of corners before the first jump and the end of the second rock garden to after the Tripple jumps. After we had finished walking the track, dad gave me some shuttles. Just spent this time cruising down the track looking at how to get into some different lines, and deciding what things i wanted to focus more on doing.
Friday had the practice in the mourning and the 4x racing in the afternoon. Did the friday practice, still just looking at different lines, and watching different people doing different lines in the rock gardens. Raced the 4x against Sarsha Huntington who races 4x professionally at world cup rounds, and Maddy and Kaytee raced to fill in the other two spots. The race was pretty crap, I tried to cut Sarsha off and ended up sliding out and crashing. Ended up pretty much having to sprint my arse off in order to get past maddy who i just managed to beat on the finish line, and she was just cruising.
Saturday was a full day of practice. Caught up with fellow Bicycle rider Brandon Lumsden and did some runs with him, following his lines and also followed him off the first jump a few times, but gave up on that after i relised it wasnt too much slower to go around, and was way less riskier for me to do. so just practiced going around it faster instead of trying to hit the jump. Tried some different lines in the rock gardens and stuff after watching others doing it. Was kinda tired by the end of the day, should properly stop doing do many runs.
Sunday was race day. It was a good day. did 2 practice runs, and that was it. Seeding was shit, i was just cruising, and managed to crash when i decided to pedal. clipped a root that was sticking up and rode the front wheel for a bit then half bailed half crashed when I realised I was still on the front wheel heading off a drop. As i was about to get on the bike, Georgia Wight who started after me passed me, so i just cruised down following her for the rest of the track. Seeded last obviously. Race run, i started first as i seeded last. I knew where i was back off and that was in the rockgardens, but i didnt even get to the first one before i crashed, i was just pedaling along a flat bit into the first rockgarden and clippen a small rock that was sticking up. Flipped over the bars, bike landed on top of me. got up while chucking the bike away, walked over, picked it back up and got back on it. Cruised though the rock gardens then pushed it a little bit trying to make up for my crash. Ended up 4th not too far off 1st. My whole race run went good as. better then any of my practice runs apart from the crash, i thought i rode the rock gardens the best i had all weekend. was just pissed off that i crashed.
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