the flow blog

Today was time to practice the qualifier. We started with the Sprint Avalanche track, great way to warm up But somehow I rode practically all of it and felt pretty good. The rock wall ride was something completely new to me and I couldn’t quite believe I got down so many tight rocky steep switchbacks! Thanks again to Petra for coaching me down it and waiting to check i was keeping up.
The qualifier course also threw in some new stuff including a large open expanse of rock – fun though. A lot was hard, really hard, but then I just had to remember there’s no shame in walking and to feel great about how much of the rocky stuff I rode. There’s also some fun swoopy singletrack and I had Petra to encourage me when I got a bit down about not being able to make myself ride all of it.

Tomorrow’s another day though and I know I’ll do better than today