Getting my gold medal!!


Myself, Tomoko 2nd and Kyoko 3rd!! Yeah, I am sooooo haaaaaappppy ! I really wanted to win this race and I did. The day before during practice, I crashed and smacked my head in the crazy new rock section. It was quite challenging, like something I would ride in Canada level wise. So I figured I'd better ride like the true Canadian I am and win!!! The night before my head hurt and I was feeling like someone hit me with a baseball bat in several places from the rocks I had landed on. I was even contemplating whether or not to race the next day. I decided to wait and see how I felt in the morning.

I didn't sleep super well because of the baseball bat issue but decided I wanted to try a practice run and see how it went. In the practice run I cleared the rock section and decided I could do it and rested up for the qualifier. In the qualifier, I came in third, I was all over the place in the corners and went off course twice but cleared the rock section. My time was 3:26. I knew I had to pull up my socks in order to win and smooth up in those corners!!! In the final, my foot kept coming out of the pedal but I managed to pull off a pretty good run and knocked 7 seconds off my qualifying time!!! Super stoked, elated, on top of the world were the feelings at that moment!!! Soon to be 40 but still able to put up a good fight with the youngens.....



Me on my winning run!

Tomorrow I have another battle, I will race the XC in elite class, my goal is to have fun and get some great training in. I will be smiling thinking of my win today!!! Later, K.