2014 Season Roundup
2014 has been an interesting year for me both in terms of mountain biking and my life in general. How one performs during a single season usually depends on how the previous season ended so that seems like a good place to begin this blog. I finished last season with the Youth Inter-regional Mountainbike Championships in Essex. Results were very mixed for me as I had managed to pull myself together after 4 weeks of on and off riding due to illness. Following this I set out to build endurance over the winter so that I could start training for racing early on in 2014. The off-season training went pretty well for me with my first National race at Codham Park being strong for the first two laps until a nutritional mistake led me to bonk for the remaining laps. This did however prove that the training had payed off and I grew in confidence which I had lacked pre race. Later on in spring I took part in the Midlands' Eliminator race in Chesterfield. The course was mainly