Mallory has a name for itself as being one of the muddiest and bike wrecking courses on the national series, and it didn't disappoint again. It had been a few wet days before and parts of the course were completely submerged in thick mud. When I got there the women's race was going on and I could just tell how hard it was to make it round some parts of the course. The track was really good though and had some fast and technical bits which I enjoyed.
On the start line I was 3 rows back as I have had a couple of bad races at the nationals. I got a bad start and dropped a few places, then through the first 2 laps I passed people and got through the field, I then came in for my first bike change that I had ever done, the same for my Dad as well. It went ok apart from a few banging of wheels but I didn't drop too much time but the time I did drop, I made up very quickly on a clean bike!
I ended up finishing 12th which I was kind of happy with, if I had had a better start and hadn't been stuck behind a few people I think I could have done a bit better, but its all experience after all.
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