The journey from small guy to teenager...
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Re: The journey from small guy to teenager...
Antur Stiniog nationals this weekend.
Live timing here
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Rider 222 in youth
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Live timing here
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Rider 222 in youth
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Ooh...tense. Find a couple of seconds and that's a chunk of places up the leader board.
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P22 in seeding, had a minor off track but not huge.
Needs/wants to find a bit more tomorrow
2s gets him 7-8 places
Needs/wants to find a bit more tomorrow
2s gets him 7-8 places
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Good luck today chaps.
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Nailed it on run 3 then?
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Re: The journey from small guy to teenager...
Looks to be going well.
If I'm reading the times correctly, the lad that's leading the youth is faster than almost all the elite men? Is that right?
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Conditions are changing lots today so times will be up and down. The boy is chilling before doing quite a late practice run and 12.15, race run scheduled for 2.45.
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16th
Target for year was top 20 at national.
8s away from winner. Bloody awesome job!
Target for year was top 20 at national.
8s away from winner. Bloody awesome job!
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Chapeau!
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Well that's the weekend over. Just arrived home after leaving the house at 5am on Friday morning.
Screenshot_2024-06-23-22-00-35-498_com.android.chrome by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
Race results there
https://www.rootsandrain.com/event12570 ... g/results/
I was super happy with the whole weekend. Firstly from me riding Black Powder and trying out a DH bike, but then with the boy and his riding.
Over the weekend he went from not massively liking the track to getting on ok with it, but his attitude was still tip top. No sulking etc, apart from a little wobble after Seeding and being disappointed.
Today though was wet as an otters pocket in the morning but he didn't complain, just got up, went out and stuck runs in.
The race run went really well with him putting in both a solid time and very few mistakes. The best bit being that once again he's closing the gap to the fast lads.
Josh Woods will likely be in world cups next year or year after for sure, but several of the others will be too, so closing right up on them is awesome by him.
The busy times continue now with FoD Thurs this week, Ponty at the weekend and the straight off racing the next 3 weeks back to back.
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Race results there
https://www.rootsandrain.com/event12570 ... g/results/
I was super happy with the whole weekend. Firstly from me riding Black Powder and trying out a DH bike, but then with the boy and his riding.
Over the weekend he went from not massively liking the track to getting on ok with it, but his attitude was still tip top. No sulking etc, apart from a little wobble after Seeding and being disappointed.
Today though was wet as an otters pocket in the morning but he didn't complain, just got up, went out and stuck runs in.
The race run went really well with him putting in both a solid time and very few mistakes. The best bit being that once again he's closing the gap to the fast lads.
Josh Woods will likely be in world cups next year or year after for sure, but several of the others will be too, so closing right up on them is awesome by him.
The busy times continue now with FoD Thurs this week, Ponty at the weekend and the straight off racing the next 3 weeks back to back.
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A little montage of pics from the weekend. Things are still not getting any less crazy with 3 race weekends in the next 4 weeks, only this weekend survives, but he's still riding Ponty at the weekend for practice. (As well as other stuff throughout the week of course).
IMG-20240625-WA0020 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
IMG-20240625-WA0027 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
IMG-20240625-WA0033 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
IMG-20240625-WA0018 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
IMG-20240625-WA0020 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
IMG-20240625-WA0027 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
IMG-20240625-WA0033 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
IMG-20240625-WA0018 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
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FoD Thursday mates races last night for both me and him. The course was LONNNNNG and techy !!!
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He managed to win his Cat by 9s. I propped up near the back of the adults. It's astounding just how fast the bugger goes. Was a slightly weird night as we had a minor mechanical on the 141 so he mostly rode my bike. Once i'd fixed the 141 i ended up doing lap on a Specialized Kenevo which was MASSIVE being an S5 in size (XL) and with incredibly wide bars. Felt really uncomfortable, but i managed to go 8s quicker than my first run. But ran out of time then so didn't get any more runs in to see if i could improve on my own bike.. Bit of a shame there. But beer and banter won the rest of the evening.
Long chat with the coach about his race plans etc... still plenty to think about
IMG_20240627_201619 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
He managed to win his Cat by 9s. I propped up near the back of the adults. It's astounding just how fast the bugger goes. Was a slightly weird night as we had a minor mechanical on the 141 so he mostly rode my bike. Once i'd fixed the 141 i ended up doing lap on a Specialized Kenevo which was MASSIVE being an S5 in size (XL) and with incredibly wide bars. Felt really uncomfortable, but i managed to go 8s quicker than my first run. But ran out of time then so didn't get any more runs in to see if i could improve on my own bike.. Bit of a shame there. But beer and banter won the rest of the evening.
Long chat with the coach about his race plans etc... still plenty to think about
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Re: The journey from small guy to teenager...
Ha ha. It was a tough track for sure, although let's just say I was lapping like I do on track days when @Tricky is out there compared to these boys