Date: March 31, 2012
Time: 16:30
Distance: 38 kms
Saturday 16:30, GARVÍA BIKE – CENTRO TIR is ready to
ride hard in the III MTB Race of Santa
María de los Llanos (Cuenca).
The good economical prizes for the three
first classified were enough to concentrate a lot of high level riders.
The
race started very fast and we set a group of 15
bikers. I feel really good and I am strong enough to be in the top of the race
several times. 8 kilometres later, we are only three riders in the head of the
race.
One of the riders takes some advantage,
so I decide to go faster behind him. I ride in second place, but a few meters behind me is the third one.
In a tricky uphill, I am not able to
drive well among several stones and lose some seconds and distance. Now, my position
is the third one.
Riding
in the third place, I see really near the
first and the second one. I decide to ride faster to reach them. There are only
10 kilometres left to finish the race.
Unfortunately, my bike is not behaving
well, I have broken a spoke of my rear
wheel and it is not as stable as desired. Nevertheless, it is not enough
for my ambition to win the race.
However, a bit later I have a “fantastic surprise”, one race coordinator was not precise enough
to indicate the correct way and I
lost myself. After riding 300 meters, I could join again to the race. The
first riders are far away and I feel a bit depressed. I have lost my third
place, I was not able to ride to win and I did not know my current place.
I decided to continue riding hard until
the end. I did not know my current place, but I was going to fight hard until I
finish my race.
After a couple of miles, someone tell me
that I ride in the fourth place and
I am able to see to the third rider!. It
is not time to get depressed, but to ride hard to recover the lost position.
In the last kilometre, I place myself in
the third position and I am able to finish in the third position of the main ranking and in the 1st position of Master 30.
Many thanks to my manager for his race data and for the great photographs.
