Ok, I'm back, well I never left, but when I last wrote here it was the end of the 2014 mountain bike season. Well its been over a year, so a big update needed but i'll keep it brief.
I spent the winter of 2014/2015 racing Cyclocross. It was my second season racing it but unlike other years it was pretty much the only training I did all winter, very little road and mtb. I raced a full season of the Fixx Supercross Cup and a couple of Ulster races. The highlight was going to the Milton Keynes round of the world cup and experiencing a world level course and race. It was a revelation. It was the event that drove home the fact that cyclocross was my favorite discipline. And to top it off I got 13th in my first year as a junior(U18)
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| Milton Keynes. Happier than a pig in shit! |
2015 was a very dull season results wise but not by any other measure. I broke my left collarbone racing my first stage race, the Gorey three day. It was a great 3 days until the last 3 km of the last day where I learnt that tarmac hurts a LOT. This was eight weeks before my first entry into a round of the Enduro World Series which was held 10 minutes down the road from me in Carrick, Glenealy. To speed up my recovery I got my collarbone plated and was back riding my road bike in two weeks. The race couldn't have went better considering my training(lack of) and injury and I came home in 11th place. The next weekend I was in Scotland for the next round of the Enduro World Series where I came home 12th place.
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| I wasn't smiling afterwards |
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| Yes! Dust in Ireland..... |
Then it was back to Ireland for some Cross Country races. I got second in the second round of the National Points Series on my home track. Then onto the National Championships. Biggest disappointment of my career so far, I came down hard on Saturdays practice session and broke my right wrist, I tried to race but had to pull out within a lap.
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| 2nd place NPS Rnd 2 |
I ended my 2015 mountain bike season and celebrated my 17th birthday with a 13th place in the final round of the Enduro World Series in Italy.
Right now that you're all up to speed, the real season can begin. I'm hugely excited to announce that i'll be working with
Bike Pure founder and cyclocross coach Andy Layhe for the 2015/2016 cyclocross season. I will be competing in the Fixx series, the Ulster series and hopefully all the British National trophy rounds (excluding the first as its over) and anything else I can fit in.
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| The more of this the better |
I'll do another update soon telling you about my season so far. I'll be keeping the blogs concise and doing regular updates from now on so please do keep checking in. Also check out the team facebook page for shorter again and more regular updates on me and the rest of the team
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