Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Sunny Bournemouth
After flying into Manchester from Switzerland on friday afternoon, Shanaze and me trekked down to bournemouth in the post van for the UK Nationals. It was a pretty good journey (apart from getting lost from Manchester to Crewe!) but pretty tiring as we had been travelling the whole day, 8am until 11.30pm.
When the rowdy boys of the campsite finally shut up I slept pretty good, right through until 8am....where were all the kids playing swingball and shouting at 6am like they normally do?!! It was deathly silent, very strange. Weather was not bad, a bit of sun, not too much wind, perfect temperature for riding. It was good to see the kids allowed on the track in the morning, just like I used to do. I had fun practicing in the afternoon, it was good to be back at a UK race with my friends. I did find it hard getting used to the little start hill though after riding the Supercross hill! At the end of practice there was a bit of a session going on on the third straight, it was pretty cool to watch.
I hung about to watch the no clips race, caught up with some old buddies, chilled out and had a BBQ. It had been a good day. It was at this point I felt my body go into shut down!! I think the week had caught up with me but it least it would mean I would get to sleep easy in the tent!
Sunday morning I woke up at 6am to the pitter patter of rain on the tent. Hmmm nice. I had only registered for monday due to my tiredness and the weather forcast so I lay in bed snoozing on and off, until I was really busting for a pee and couldn't defer the long walk in the rain to the porta bogs any longer. When I got back the long grass had already soaked my vans and got through to my feet. Don't you just love camping.
Just as I was looking forward to a day of feeling smug under my umbrella while everone else raced in the mud and got soaked, the race got cancelled. I have never ever known a race to be cancelled! However, if I was down to race that day, I would be glad! In 22 years of BMX I have done more than my fair share of wet nationals and I'm over it. I hoped it would stay dry enough on monday so that at least if the track was a bit muddy we could race without getting soaked through. It wasn't to be. Sunday evening, rain heavy as ever I knew I wouldn't be racing. Gutted. Monday morning, the track was water logged, everyone packed up and left early. It was STILL raining.
It was such a shame after the club have worked so hard to prepare the race and the track, I really feel for Geoff Routledge and crew. We all look forward to Bournemouth as one of the best events of the year but you can't control the weather.
Oh well On the bright side, the trails back home were in desperate need of some rain and we can now start on our master plan!
Joey
When the rowdy boys of the campsite finally shut up I slept pretty good, right through until 8am....where were all the kids playing swingball and shouting at 6am like they normally do?!! It was deathly silent, very strange. Weather was not bad, a bit of sun, not too much wind, perfect temperature for riding. It was good to see the kids allowed on the track in the morning, just like I used to do. I had fun practicing in the afternoon, it was good to be back at a UK race with my friends. I did find it hard getting used to the little start hill though after riding the Supercross hill! At the end of practice there was a bit of a session going on on the third straight, it was pretty cool to watch.I hung about to watch the no clips race, caught up with some old buddies, chilled out and had a BBQ. It had been a good day. It was at this point I felt my body go into shut down!! I think the week had caught up with me but it least it would mean I would get to sleep easy in the tent!
Sunday morning I woke up at 6am to the pitter patter of rain on the tent. Hmmm nice. I had only registered for monday due to my tiredness and the weather forcast so I lay in bed snoozing on and off, until I was really busting for a pee and couldn't defer the long walk in the rain to the porta bogs any longer. When I got back the long grass had already soaked my vans and got through to my feet. Don't you just love camping.
Just as I was looking forward to a day of feeling smug under my umbrella while everone else raced in the mud and got soaked, the race got cancelled. I have never ever known a race to be cancelled! However, if I was down to race that day, I would be glad! In 22 years of BMX I have done more than my fair share of wet nationals and I'm over it. I hoped it would stay dry enough on monday so that at least if the track was a bit muddy we could race without getting soaked through. It wasn't to be. Sunday evening, rain heavy as ever I knew I wouldn't be racing. Gutted. Monday morning, the track was water logged, everyone packed up and left early. It was STILL raining.
It was such a shame after the club have worked so hard to prepare the race and the track, I really feel for Geoff Routledge and crew. We all look forward to Bournemouth as one of the best events of the year but you can't control the weather.
Oh well On the bright side, the trails back home were in desperate need of some rain and we can now start on our master plan!
Joey
# posted by Joey : 5/29/2007
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