With the recent dry weather it was clear the track was going to be even faster this year...scary fast. The track is pretty much a footpath/singletrack filled with loose rocks, big 30 foot booters and extremely high speeds. The most time would be made from staying off the brakes and clearing the jumps/drops.
I've never done well at Moelfre, and to be honest I wasnt expecting to do well, this was going to be the damage control for the season. Saturday practice rolled around and I felt like shit, I'd been suffering with a bug for the last few days and still wasnt fully over it, riding my bike was the last thing I wanted to do, but the awesome weather made up for it!
The track was fast and loose and was only going to get rougher and faster as the weekend went on. Despite feeling like shit, practice was going well, hit all the jumps, got all my lines and was picking up speed with each run.
I awoke to an awesomly sunny morning on sudnay, and luckily felt so much better too, things were looking up. I decided to only do 2 practice runs on the Sunday as my hands were still hurting a little from doing too many runs on Saturday. On my last practice run the front end washed out on a corner and yep...you guessed it, I hit the bad shoulder on a block of wood used in a berm. At first it felt fine, but after awhile it started to ache real bad and I couldnt lift it above my head...bad times.
I pretty much knew that, that was it, I still wanted to race so I decided to have a chilled seeding run and not pedal to see what the shoulder was like, the outcome wasn't great, but not so bad I couldnt hold on like it had been. Pulling up on the front was near impossible, so the big hucks were a no go, but the rough stuff was okay. Come race run I set out to have fun, nothing more, nothing less.
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