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The racing has all finished for the '09 season and I look back on it not sure what to make of it all. Maybe I'm getting too old for this racing lark, maybe it's time to find something else to do.
The season started well and I really enjoyed the winter racing at Hog hill, completing most of the races and coming away with 4 top 10 finishes in 6 races. The final winter race was going really well I was feeling very strong and in a prime position coming into the last lap just as I got a puncture. All… Continue

First race of the season I was marshalling and so didn't race - thank god as there were over 80 riders that night
Race 2 washed out.

Race 3, I was there on time and done all the things I needed to do.
First few laps were fast as per usual, however I'm begining to think actually it's just that I'm not warmed up properly, and it takes a few laps for me to get up to temperature. However after a few laps I found myself at the back of the first group and we had split from the main field. Must have b… Continue

I am a fan of Hog hill, I've never made any secret of this, it has a great surface, a well designed and flexible layout and a testing hill. However my only gripe is that the bottom part of the circuit seems to be prone to flooding with water collecting in the worst possible places. I'm hoping as the circuit matures this will become less of a problem as the vegetation will hold onto the water better. As you can tell from this intro the bottom half of the circuit was waterlogged... Again. So the r… Continue

I was apathetic about this race from the start, in fact I was apathetic about it the day before.
Anyway I gave Eryn a lift to the race this week and we were running late from the start, but we made up time in the car and got to the circuit with the Cat 4's already racing.

I went in to sign on and then realised I hadn't packed my base layer, and with it feeling around 0º with the wind chill I was gonna have a cold race. Then a more important issue raised it's head, I had forgotten my race licens… Continue

Today has been rushed and hassled, traffic seemed to heavier and all the lights seemed to be against me and I had Rach and Fred with me, so the car was full to bursting. On the way I got a call from Mark telling me that only the top circuit was open, but I has half way there by then so I continued to the circuit. It turned out that the bottom section had ice and mud all over it and it wasn't safe to race on. I got there late to be met by Mark running up the hill with a puncture, I leant him my s… Continue