Sick Dirt Crits

While a 3km course is technically too long for a dirt crit, it's also too short for a true XC race, so the Brisbane South Mountain Bike club have engineered races that lie in between; true short course XC racing at its finest.

Having been battling some foreign lurgy for the past week, I was bummed out to miss the second race of the series last Saturday night. Actually, as I was holed up in bed and pretty much unable to do most things except blow my nose, I was bummed about just about everything.

Luckily Aidos went to represent for team Lefmann-beck, and took home the A-grade men category. pretty impressive, as he was on his Niner One-Nine singlespeed. Representin' for the gearless!



All you geard-o's don't be a hating!

Having had time off to well-myself in anticipation for other key events I want to do well at...I headed out to round three yesterday. What a race! Who could have thought that 15km of singletrack and 49 minutes of corners and ruts could take such a toll! Well...obviously those who have experienced Brisbane's searing tropical heat would know just how hot 35 degrees on the radar can be.

Racing on a spaghetti-like course means that racing hard can come at the sacrifice of hydration, which is never a nice feeling when you've just raced and all you want to do is throw up because of the heat, and the only water you have is at 35 degrees! Yuck.

Despite all my generalised rage at the weather at the moment, it was a good, fun race. The boys (Aidos, Glenn, Benson and Rob) and I then headed out for a cruise around Daisy Hill, only 500metres from the event site. We were pretty hammered so it definitely wasn't a smashfest.

Anyway, good training, good hurting and hopefully this will have me in supreme form for nationals in Adelaide later this week. Well, fingers crossed!