Something I am now beginning to dread is that first race of next season.. Will what I am doing be enough ? My worst race to date was the first round of the Kinetica Munster XC series in 2013. This race was my first time out with the Irish development team and it was just a mess. It was only a short three laps.. Not even an hour of racing but my body could not handle it. I had spent the entire winter (September 2012- January 2013) doing absolutely nothing but somehow I presumed my fitness from last season would have stuck with me. It didn't. I slogged around the course for the three laps with every lap through the feeding zones I felt as if the place went quiet, I felt as if I had done something awful and I wasn't the athlete the locals once knew. I never want this again.. If I am not prepared in the future more than likely I just wont race.
There is plenty reasons I can blame on this lack of motivation/ preparation over the winter, school, leaving cert, bikes not being ready, being in a relationship (she did constantly tell me to go out training), but honestly I just had no drive to do it.. I was 17 with a car that was enough about it, its how 90% of my past competitors ended up leaving the sport.
Here is a pic from that race.
Training and race progress throughout 2014 as I move away from Junior Cross Country and up to Seniors in Gravity Enduro
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