What a season!!! FREEFLOW XC was final race of the Offroad Ontario XC season and it brought with it some drama!! I went into this one feeling as cocky as one could with this being my home track and all...I could link this course in my head an knew every corner, rock and undulation. This, however, proved to be my fatal flaw...
I got the holeshot and just hammered out of the gate leaving my Vet B crew turns behind me going in to the woods. Felt like this could be the day I stood up one or two steps on the podium. Then....it got weird.....I always cut left near the road of the second section where I was supposed to go straight which resulted in cutting out a couple km of trail. The section just before it was slick and I never put another thought into it because that was the corner I've ridden dozens and dozens of times. Brutal.......a stupid error done 6 TIMES!!!!!!!! If only there was someone in FRONT OF ME during one of these laps to show me the err in my ways....The end result could have been worse. This could have been a DNF but once I realized....hmmm...no I don't run faster laps that the fastest PRO...I had to figure it out. A quick scoot out with Robin Brant confirmed the error. I quickly confessed it and the ruling to bump me down to third was gratefully accepted. A DNF would have been catastrophic! I'm pretty sure the guy who was sitting 4th overall in the series would have loved my DNF to enable him to bump into 3rd overall but no go. He'll get his crack at some podiums next year...I'm going to either be bumped or voluntarily move myself into Vet A for next season...First start on the line with a clear path until the fast Novice B's catch me sounds like a good way to go me thinks.
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