This race weekend started off with another long drive down to the race venue. We left at about 1 for the long 7 hour drive down to the track, we arrived around half 8 and it was still bright enough to walk the track.
The Track was quite steep and wet so I knew I would have to be changing to spikes. After the track walk we went to the camping spot to set up base getting the gazebo and the Novatec banner up. We soon got everything organized and went to bed around 10. The nest day started well, we just signed on and did a few runs and even though the track was wet and muddy but it was really good fun. Unfortunately it started to rain pretty bad and the track turned into a mud fest and was just like a slip and slide the whole way down. I tried to salvage as much practice as I could. Once we finished for the day we put the bikes on the back of the pick up and took them to the garage to get washed.
Come race day I was feeling in a really good mood. Was just having fun riding my bike and didn't really mind that it was wet and muddy; I actually thought it made the track more interesting.
Unfortunately I had a very bad 1st race run and fell of 3 times on the track, even with this bad luck I came down and was sitting in 5th. I knew if I had a clean run I would improve quite a lot. It came to the 2nd race run and I was just focused on having a clean run and that I did. I came down and was sittig in 1st place waiting for a few riders to come down. Unfortunately my main competitor Gavin Carroll also came down and had an amazing run and knocked me off the top spot. My run put me in 2nd in the junior category and 11th overall which I was pleased with as the CRC Intense WC team was racing.
Thanks to all my sponsors for supporting me throughout the year.
Christopher McGlinchey
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