Well there was a real cracker of a mtb duathlon course i went and raced yesterday. It was out the bottom of Whare Flat/Swampy Summit Rd and involved a 2-3km run/crawl/slide through the bush which was a mud fest followed by a fantastic Mtb through some forestry single track also laced with mud and slippery roots etc, following this we ran the first run in reverse and slipped and slid all through this!! All the time it was wet and rainy!! I had a good race and led off the first run and onto the MTb Matty Graham established a lead early on, of which i chased hard but once onto the single track he made further gains on me. I was storming around the mtb tack on the verge of out of control at many times, near the end of the bike stage i came rocketing over some wooden bvoard walk, i didn't realise i was on this until i was sliding along on my side over this and then ended up off the boardwalk and into a tree - ouch!! - i have onle huge lump and open graze hol,e in my hip now with all the colours of the rainbow developing on it today!! so up and away again only to find my front tyre going flat, i thought it was only 1-2km ot the finish of this stage so i ploughed on up the gravel road out of the forest but it was further than i thought. I ended up having to stop to make a quick tyre change , while doing this i was passed and then had to chase hard onto the last run but couldn't quite make up the time lost from the puncture!! Finishing 3rd i was prett happy with this, Matty Graham Finished 1st, with another Matt 2nd and Myself 3rd. All oin all a great time out in the rain despite the crasha dn puncture!!
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