Sunshine Coast - Day 5
The Sunshine Coast has a reputation for epic flowing descending, and to be honest that's exactly what we were hoping for yesterday.
The original plan was for another 60kms of riding with close to 2100m vertical, but the course directors and BCBR masterminds made the call to throw a course change in and shorted things up a bit - thanks for that - couldn't be more welcomed by me!
Felt good off the start line and kept with a pretty good group through the opening doubletrack (the same stuff we'd finished up on the day before). Had a good early stint but as soon as we started going up, my leg power started going down :(
A bit more no flow trail killed of any power I had left.y recovery is slow and Marks doing pretty well right now - I guess 12,000kms of riding down africa day after day helps condition your body to quick recovery!
Anyway, still plenty of climbing and some bits I simply had to walk - not through poor trail choice, but simply my lack of conditioning.
On any other day and on fresh legs it'd have been a superb race course and one that would've suited us perfectly, sadly the legs didn't do what I begged of them and we slipped further behind where we hoped to be in the pack. Descending was fine and we picked places back steadily.
After the second feed station - paramedic extraodinaire Meg gave us the great news that it was only a short way to the top!
After a big effort 20 minutes we entered the descent....WOW, what awesome trails!
We were wearing huge grins all the way down which made every last bit of up completely worth while!
Mark flatted with 100m of trail before the road and subsequent finish line but we got fixed up and moving again in probably only 45 seconds by double teaming the tube swap.
Pretty strong descent and picked off a bunch of riders, but my weak climbing kept us back just inside the top 100.
Back in Squamish now, my own bed, a hot bath and hopefully a decent rest so we can rip it up on home soil!
Going to Langdale? TAKE YOUR BIKE!!!
The original plan was for another 60kms of riding with close to 2100m vertical, but the course directors and BCBR masterminds made the call to throw a course change in and shorted things up a bit - thanks for that - couldn't be more welcomed by me!
Felt good off the start line and kept with a pretty good group through the opening doubletrack (the same stuff we'd finished up on the day before). Had a good early stint but as soon as we started going up, my leg power started going down :(
A bit more no flow trail killed of any power I had left.y recovery is slow and Marks doing pretty well right now - I guess 12,000kms of riding down africa day after day helps condition your body to quick recovery!
Anyway, still plenty of climbing and some bits I simply had to walk - not through poor trail choice, but simply my lack of conditioning.
On any other day and on fresh legs it'd have been a superb race course and one that would've suited us perfectly, sadly the legs didn't do what I begged of them and we slipped further behind where we hoped to be in the pack. Descending was fine and we picked places back steadily.
After the second feed station - paramedic extraodinaire Meg gave us the great news that it was only a short way to the top!
After a big effort 20 minutes we entered the descent....WOW, what awesome trails!
We were wearing huge grins all the way down which made every last bit of up completely worth while!
Mark flatted with 100m of trail before the road and subsequent finish line but we got fixed up and moving again in probably only 45 seconds by double teaming the tube swap.
Pretty strong descent and picked off a bunch of riders, but my weak climbing kept us back just inside the top 100.
Back in Squamish now, my own bed, a hot bath and hopefully a decent rest so we can rip it up on home soil!
Going to Langdale? TAKE YOUR BIKE!!!
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