a race where things finally went right...

MATRIX 6 hour - weekend warrior festival

1st solo mens, Prue - 1st solo womens

I felt like a pinball through all those rocky sections on this brand new track. And like any XC race, not even the downhill sections gave much respite. It's very obvious that Bill & his track team from TWP has put in a huge amount of work getting these tracks going though. Time, some new flowy additions & a bit of rain will hopefully see the track bed in & be a bit more enduro like. Getting through & over that rocky stuff is energy sapping at the best of times, 6 hours of it made for a really challenging day.

And how's this...Prue & I got through without any major mechanicals or any such zucchini slice adventure. Yep, things went really well for both of us. We pushed our support crew to the limits once again. Kaz & Ratty were absolutley awesome providing food, drink, good cheer and underneath it all was that unquestionable expectation that we would stay on our bikes. As always it was really encouraging to see a lot of new riders at this event. I'm sure many would be pleased to know that they were introduced to mountain biking on one of the most rigorous tracks around.