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Wasing racing disaster!!!

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BY: phil Morris

Published: 20th June, 2011


Well, it's taken over a week to get over my nightmare/fustrating performance at the third round of the BMBS at Wasing.

As far as racing goes it was pretty much non-existent after the first corner of lap one!! So i will in breif sum up the weekend.

Having the whole tribe on board we decided to head down on the friday afternooon and make a bit of a weekend of it and to settle in before the weather turned down hill!! We arrived around 6 ish in Wasing to a pretty campsite with just a handful of campers, mainly in caravans may i add!! I think it's catching this caravan malarky!! Temperatures were actually reasonable and after chatting to a few friends who were helping out with the setting up for the event and after we had set up camp. We headed off in search of a pub for some food! We didnt have to go to far until we found a nice pub which was pretty busy but filled us up.

 

Saturday morning was upon us and the sun was shinning and temperatures rising, it was really quite warm. We hadnt planned too much for the day, with my only real aim to get a few practice laps in somewhere. So first thing the wife decided to head out and do a practice lap around the course(not on a bike, but running!!) On arriving back her words were " well its pretty flat with a few short climbs and 2 draggy, longer ones, lots of surface roots and lots of peaty soil, lots of single track with a one up and down bumpy bit and one scary looking drop off!!" Ok so that was her summary of the course now it was my turn to actually test it out. I headed out for a few early laps and to be fair she wasnt too far out with her description!!

 

Wasing is never a favorite course, too similar to Sherwood for my liking! But it was actually fairly enjoyable.

After signng on at mid-day we headed off to the local swimming poool for a spalsh with the waterbabies and had some cafe food before heading back to meet the rest of my team.  A couple of the team were unable to make it so there was 3 of us racing Myself, Niall and Mel.

Having thought i had shaken off a chesty cough the week earlier i thought i felt ok, and the legs felt good. Off the start i went ok, until basically the first corner came, i felt like i had been punched in the chest and could not breathe. Oh bugger was what i thought, i have only had this feeling once before during a cross season 2 years ago. I did not want a repeat i felt dreadful for weeks and basically would start a race feeling ok and as soon as i pushed hard at all i would feel like i was going to burst, well my lungs anyway. So i just rode on steadily until i got to the pits, where Donna and the kids were standing, with the rain hammering down shaking there heads. I had made up my mind i was not going on, i would have been detrimental to me in the long run,plus i was never going to make it back to the front.

Annoyed, fustrated, gutted and pretty p****d off was how i was feeling, i hate not finnishing a race and very rarely do, but it was a must. By now the weather was appaling and the heavy rain was giving the rest of tyhe riders hell out there! Well done to anyone who finished!! After quickly getting dressed and hooking the caravan up, chucking all the soaked stuff in the car we left wasing, with me feeling , well not very happy shall we say!!

 

Onwards and upwards now, to this weekend in Margam where hopefully my form will be back. I really hope so, because i love maragm, and it's really my type of course, but I wont know until the day!! fingers crossed!!

 

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