7th May 2017, Maddix Park, Rowe Road, Tauranga
On Sunday morning on the way to the event one of the observers thought he was going the wrong way so he turned around and ran into one of the other observers. They were OK but their utes were written off.
I didn’t like Sunday as well as Saturday. I thought that the yellow lines weren’t as well thought out as Saturdays were. I quite liked seven although, frustratingly, I never cleaned it. It was tight corners and hilly stuff which is usually my favourite sort of riding.
It took a while for prize-giving to start. By the time it started a lot of people had already left. I picked up Daniel Herbert and Jason Day’s trophies as well as my own. Carl Robson from Ixion picked up four or five trophies to take home for other riders. By the time he went up for his own trophy he looked a bit over it.
I had a bad day but Gabrielle seemed to be enjoying herself. She deservedly beat me by 11 points and it could easily have been more. For instance, the first time through section four, she rode really well and was just about to exit when her front wheel unexpectedly went sideways on a gravely slope and she was down. An unlucky five.
