NZ MTB Cup Round 3 Wellington

This Wellington round has been the best/funnest NZ Cup round that I have ever done in Wellington, the course must have had a lot of time and effort put into it and it paid off.. Thanks to all those people who put it all together.

The race for me was exciting at the start, being up with the leaders and attacking for first position. It was a bit stupid but hopefully I gave all the old guys a scare hah.

After that short 5 min high the race was all about holding onto 7th position which was not easy, having Adrian Reteif on my heels for most of the race.
Finished up 7th.. mint.

Here are some pics and a link to the results

http://www.mtbnz.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/XC3-Wellington.pdf


Cheers

First video made from the Go Pro

Bam!

End of oceania course

Ahah! finally figured out how to get a video on!

Black stump adventure race

First blog post in a while . . hope the spelling is not too bad.

Rolling up to the race was a bit different from the usual, being out in the country and seeming like it was in the middle of nowhere. The weather was in prime conditions being slightly overcast.

The race start was a bit of suprise, with a guy walking up to the sart and randomly firing off a shotgun..go! The start was nice and chilled for the first two hundred metres, then I decided to attack and split the bunch apart with Sam Gaze sticking with me. We rode together for a bit until the next attack which saw me out in the front for the rest of the race. The scenery was quite nice and the course was blimmin hard! Plus there were a lot of sheep out on the course which made it good fun. Finished up in first! Very happy.

Results
http://www.blackstumpadventures.co.nz/2010Ride/black%20stump%20home.htm


This was an Awesome race with a friendly atmosphere..I would definitely do it again if it was not the last one (for a while they say)

Thanks to the race organisers for making it a great day.

Cheers