working week series 8hr at sparrow hill

Back on the road again with a late depature (yay sleep in!) n Sparrow Hill near Queanbeyan is our destination. Originally the plan was to camp there on the sat nite but with 3 bikes and all our gear there wasnt much room left in the car! So me Chops n Charlie decide to stay at a motel which was a good decision as Canberra had some scary lookin clouds over it! We arrive at the track about 4.30 n manage to get a lap in before the rain n get rego out of the way. Lots of new bits in the track which i hadn done in the Mont so good to find out this before i raced on it.

We wake on sunday to a freezing cold wind that didnt let up all day! only good thing about it was that it dried the track out a bit. Gear all set up with the gazebo in a good position for the transition n chops is up for the start lap. Seems the New Zealand n Chile world teams had turned up for a bit of practice so things were confusing at the start making it look like we were way behind. My turn comes n i hit the single track flat out passing as many people as i can. The legs are feelin good n the track is slowly wearing in. I do about a 32 min lap and sit down to try scoff some food before the next lap.

About half way into the race i find out the worlds teams had finished and gone home (they werent doin the whole race) and that we were in 3rd place by 2 min! Awesome, so i tell chops n he sighs cause he knows we have to work hard now! He does a double lap so he can go get his phone he left at the motel (silly bugger) n then its my turn to do a double. The first lap felt slow n i thought i was tiring so i had some food while riding n into the second lap. Im feelin better now so i put the hammer down n carve up the downhill sections. I find out that my 2 laps were 1 second apart! Talk about consistant! Chops comes in from his laps and informs me that second had a flat n we were now second! Time to punish myself again as this was my last lap, so i give it everything n come in before the 8 hrs, 1st is way ahead of us n 3rd is about 8 min behind us.
Out chops goes to do the extra lap and holds on to 2nd place for us! Stoked with our efforts and had a really fun race too, finally all this training is paying off for me! We collect our prizes, get a quick photo and straight into the car with the heater on for the drive home. Great results fun wkend n met some great people too'.......