Michael's BMRS Rd 3 Wasing Estate report

"In a previous race report for the Southern XC series race (at the same venue), I mentioned that i could imagine what this course would be like in the wet. It lived up to those expectations. The Elite/expert/sport race was delayed for 30mins while someone was airlifted to hospital, not an encouraging start to the race. The start was jumpy as usual, which led to too many slips foot downs and walking (shock horror), not on my part, except for a 'you've been framed' moment through a very slippy corner leading into a bombole. 'smooth and steady wins the race' was very much the philosophy for this ride. I kept a steady and hard pace thoughout which dragged me through from 14th to 8th in laps 3 and 4. However, with a later start than expected i was running out of energy and was glad it was 4 laps rather than five. I had to drag out a pretty hard sprint to hold 8th and finished grinning. The downside is i picked up less points for 8th in this race than 7th in the Southern Series the week before when everything went wrong."

Michael Guildford

Results:

http://timelaps.co.uk/assets/uploads/BMBS Rd3.pdf