Monkey Business

I see 4hr races an in between distance on the MTB, so went into Sunday's Brass Monkey race with a plan of just trying to stick to either of my two buddies making the trip over from Cardiff, Si Smith and Luke Morris with my target being "survival".

I had little panics when I went through the first, then the second and then the third lap in a top ten position!

Despite some really bad hamstring cramps on the short, sharp up hills of the Surrey course, I felt in a strangely good physical condition - even a little bit gutted when 04:00.00 clicked past on my Garmin with only a couple hundred more meters to getting another lap in!

Really, really happy with 6th in the seniors and had a lot of fun on the tight and technical course. And of course, this was my first MTB race on the Trek Superfly... That's a fast machine.

More training this week then a trip up to Brecon for the Welsh CX Champs on Sunday which is really exciting me!!