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Joe Connell - Innerleithen Enduro Race.

So on Saturday I was chilling out while a whole load of keen riders were practicing the 3 courses for the first round of the Alpine Winter series Rd.1- XC Multi Stage Enduro. I hadn't planned on racing the event but on Saturday my mate Gavin Black who was racing, came by my house in Innerleithen after the practice day of the event and told me how rad the tracks were. So on Saturday night, after hearing how good the tracks were, I decided to race it!

on Sunday morning I rocked up and entered on the race, I was pretty excited to ride some blown out ruts blind on an xc bike! The event was a three special stage format, unfortunatly for me there was more climbing than expected in the stages but I bit the bullet and slammed the seat down for all of them, it just meant I had to stand up and sprint the fire road/ flat uphill sections. luckily enough for me there was some pretty tech downhill sections that were pretty rough and rutted,which suited me down to the ground. It was a lot of fun to ride some natural sections that were so blown out and loose! 

Joe

I ended up taking the Junior win with a time of 24min31sec.(all 3 descent times added together). The event was good and it was cool to work on riding longer descents that were pretty tech as well.

Shout out for Innerleithen Mtb Racing and all of the Marshals for making the event happen!

Until next time!

JC

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