National Youth Circuit Race Championship's

This was one of those races in the year where you either do really well, or you don't! unfortunatly for me, I had the latter.

I knew what I had to do the week leading up to the race, and managed to get all my training in to get me to the best form possible in a week. On the day, I felt great! 40 laps of the preston arena, mile long circuit, was just what I needed. The distance was long enough to make people suffer but not long enough to be stupidly hard. After the first 15 laps, I moved up to the front and started to put in some turns and had a few digs off the front, the best being a 5 man group including me, that managed to get away for around 5 laps. We where brought back though, and a counter attack of 4 got away, and stayed away for the rest of the race!

At this point i decided the best thing to do was find who was the strongest and try to get away with them. unfortunatly the un-willingness of other riders in the bunch meant that any attacks where nullified and with 3 laps remaining I was in perfect position.

2 laps and I was in top 10

bell lap, and I was in 7th coming into the second to last corner when suddenly....... CRASHHHHH!!!!!!! the person in 5th went down and at 34mph it was either ride over him and hope for the best, or go into the dyke. I chose, or not so much chose, but was forced into the dyke and watched helplessly as the bunch sailed past. I picked myself up, swore refusely and then rolled in for 44th position.

at least I wasn't injured! but hey, that's racing for you!