On the Sunday I had another school of racing so me, Matthias, Ben and Emma huddled into the van and headed for Glasgow. The session started with a classroom style workshop where I learnt loads about the devil as although I'd ridden a few previously I had never studied it in depth. We then headed onto the boards for a variety of drills and despite my first crash on the velodrome I thoroughly enjoyed the whole day.
This week has not been quite so successful though with illness being a reocurring theme. Monday and Tuesday I felt slightly under the weather so only managed small sessions but I felt fine during school on Wednesday so headed out to Glasgow again for my first proper taste of track racing. On arrival I found that my usual "competitors" had all entered the B adult category so I was left with racing a slightly smaller youth field. I arrived late and didn't manage a warm up before the scratch where I attacked straight from the gun. Bad idea. After just two laps I was already blowing and only just stayed out getting pipped into second by Lewis. I felt terrible afterwards but slowly recovered in time for the next race which I managed to win along with the remaining two races that evening.
Since then I've suffered from a cough and other wee bugs but am hoping to recover nicely for next week. Today was good fun in helping my dad out whilst he raced the second off road duathlon and it was nice going to a race without the stress of actually racing for once! Cheers for reading, over and out. x
