Training Log Archive: Alex M

Gisburn MTBO, first time doing this sort of thing, and set off a fw minutes after my brother who is a much better cyclist, but he made mistakes and was too confident with being able to ride 'Path-Difficult' so I had nearly caught him at no.2, Then going into 4 he missed the turning and I corrected him, the he got past me again on the singletrack, and then my chain came off and I didn't see him again until the finish, but still beat him by 30s. Would have been nice not to have to rotate the map in my head, as it was fixed on the handlebars. Would definitely try it again.

Did extremely badly, picked the wrong strategy right from the start, then wasn't ambitious enough, and then mis-calculated my tim, and thought I had 5 mins less than I actually did, so started my sprint back around the lanes, and got half way and realised, but was too far to go back and after that I just jogged round the 2 controls I had left and were possible in the time.

Steady run with the rest of the group as most of them had been racing at the weekend .