Last week I was in Galicia, Spain, to participate in my first 24 hours solo mountain bike race. Two hundred people find each other in Somozas, in the most north-west point in the penninsula. It was like a party, a lot of people with theirs tents, mechanics, bikes and also a good rock'n'roll concerts during the night.
The race started at 12 a.m., and the start was more hard than we thought. I was also ridding fast but I just could be in the second position for the first four laps. Every lap was really exigent, 11k with 300m uphill in a short difficults and tecnics hills and then a fast crazy downhill single tracks.
After the four lap I caught the guy who had been in the firts position, and fast I started to steal him time. Three laps latter he gave up. I kept pushing a few laps more, untill the sixth hour, when I found the second one, one of the best spanish' guys in this kind of races, in a lost lap. I didn't know exactly how was the time untill this moment, but I was calm then. I could stopped my firsts ten minuts to eat some pasta, drink a coffee and give a kiss to my wife, who went to sleep. I was alone in the night!! And the darknes was also nice. I just ride and ride, lap over lap, it was fun for me, I just was thinking in my next deal, www.expeditionidahorace.com and the laps passed for me really fast. In the first laps I had rode arround 37 minutes each one and now I was in 45. Anyway I was taking more time to the second one who soon will be two laps behind of me.When we had rode twenty hours I saw him stopped and rest. He told me that the third one was also far away of him and that it was impossible to catch me. I just needed to do one lap more to win the race!!
It was so excited for me, because I won this race and I thought a lot how to do it and i did it, and also was really good because I put three big deals during my preparation to the Expedition Idaho Race, and I won all of them overall, (VBTT, The wolf race & 24somozasbike).
Now I'm just think in the beautifull race that we'll start next week in the USA with Jackie, Mimi and Stu! I'm sure that we worked hard and well these preparation months to be there for enjoy it and fight to be on the top!!!
Hola Albert,
ReplyDeleteEnhorabuena por tus aventuras y competiciones, y por este nuevo blog (a veces veo el otro y creo que entiendo casi todo aunque esté en catalán). Quería avisarte, porque supongo que se te pasaría, que el enlace de la derecha de No-city no funciona (está mal escrita la dirección, pues tiene una coma en vez de un punto).
En fin, nada más, de momento.
Saludos desde las Rias Baixas.