Its been a great weekend. I went to the Sheffield Supercross on Saturday afternoon and watched practice and qualifying. It was very entertaining and I think in some ways better than the night event. Ryan Mason hooked me up with a pass so I was stoked. We saw some pretty horrific crashes but luckily no one was hurt. I then went to Hannah's 80's ice skate disco which turned out to be really fun! I just wish I had dressed up as everyone else looked awesome! After the skating I nipped back over to the Supercross and watched the main event before heading home to get some sleep before the race.
Sunday was a fantastic day. The weather was perfect riding weather, nice and sunny but still chilled so you never got too hot. I was a bit worried going into the race as I hadn't ridden for a while and I had done absolutely no fitness training for over 2 weeks. I went to sign up and there was pretty much a full gate, almost 40 riders. I knew it was going to be tough. Everyone had turned up due to it being the last race of the year and some fast school boys had also moved up to my class.
In my first two races I managed to get decent starts and ended up finishing 9th and 10th which I was happy with. The last race I got a bad start and had to work my way up from the back. I managed to get back up to 13th which gave me 11th overall for the day. I felt pretty good the whole day and didn't make any stupid mistakes. I also felt like my jumping had improved as I was nosing it in really nicely on some of the jumps. I still feel my strength and fitness is my biggest let down which is exactly why I will be working hard in the gym this winter.
I'll be starting gym this week so that gives me about 4 months until the first race of next season.
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