I traveled out to the event with Emily again.

I rode with Kevin and Colin. Kevin had fixed Colin’s bike Saturday night.

Stef wasn’t riding because she had broken her bike and wasn’t feeling the greatest. It sucks that she only had half a weekend and I hope she’s back on form for the nationals.

I didn’t have a particularly  good day. With the exception of section five I never I never really got anywhere with sections one to eight. It was all threes and fives for me. Six and seven especially were a boggy mess. Six was through a massive bog, which more then one rider got stuck in, including one of the side chairs. Apparently it was quite difficult getting it out. Seven just got more slippery and muddy as the day went on, until it was almost unrideable.

If it hadn’t been for nine, ten and eleven, my day would have been really bad. Nine was the only section I cleaned all day. Ten was cleanable although I managed a one every time.

I cleaned eleven once. It had quite a big log and getting lined up was a bit tricky. On the first lap I got through for a three. Second lap I cleaned it, but on the last lap I got off balance and fived it.

At the end of the day I went and cleaned my bike in the river. While I was there I sat down and cleaned my muddy gear. I wasn’t worried about getting soaked in freezing water because I had clean clothes in Emily’s car. But when I walked up to get my warm dry clothes I found that Emily had already gone. There were lots of people to give me a ride back to the motel and so Emily, completely forgetting that she had all my stuff, had gone back for a hot shower.

No one wanted a dripping mess in their vehicle but John Lawton took pity and let me sit on the plastic covers on his back seats. Emily was very apologetic and, once I’d had my shower, it was all good.

Unfortunately Monday didn’t happen. We all turned up to find that the rain-swollen creek had washed almost all the sections away. There was one section still rideable and we could have set seven more but, as there were only three out of seventy people who wanted to do this, we had an early prize-giving instead.