MTBO race (Dryandra) 1:52:49 [5] ** 33.91 km (3:20 / km)
ahr:178 max:191 shoes: Specialized Epic Marathon Car
Warm up was rushed due to a bloody subaru car auction. Did a quick spin with tooms and knew i was in trouble.
Overshot track to 1 as i adjusted to scale. Was clean through 2 and 3 and proceeded to race the roos along the fenceline to 4. Out of 4 and mob of roos try to take me out!! Main road to 5 and then turn around and off to 6 via bottom track. Missed junction and had to turn around and hit it again.
6 clean and 7 clean. Smooth run into 8 and then lost track out of it so had to turn around and go via north option and then the south option into 9. Spewing that the map standards were so unpredictable. Green on one track was no where as bad as green on other. Bloody mapping convenor, spending so much time rolling around in stinging plants rather than maintaining our maps!
Southern option out of 9 into 10 then took long option to 11 after ruling out green diffcult track option. Took north track option to 12 then struggled to find track in. Saw pink tape and control so rode in on what i though was the track and left differently!!
Tried for dear life to hang on to Tooms at this stage and managed to keep him in sight through to 14. Caught him on the downhill and then his hesitation allowed me to jump on to the right track to 15, note the kind repsonse i gave someone at this point of the race.
Big cramps as i hit the ridgeline out of 15 and then hung on grimly into 16.
Popped at this point and couldnt push hard on the pedals without cramping occuring. Clicked out at the finsih line and just about fell over from the spasms.
So considering i was told not to race in zone 4 or 5 i think i did well. Now to back off and do some lower zone training.