Race day at vigo

       Today's result was not what I was hoping for, however I was happy with the weekend as a whole. The track here in Vigo was running good early in the weekend. They made a lot of changes because the old track was getting pretty tired. I was feeling comfortable straight away, but I knew it would be a different story once the rain came in as forecasted. Half way through saturday's training it started to rain. I was hoping for good weather sunday, but I did a few laps in the rain anyway to get a feel for it. This morning we had early training and the organizers forgot that today spain puts the clocks forward an hour, so It was dark when we got to the track and they had to push everything back. It rained over night and off and on all morning, so it was still really muddy out there. I had a few crashes this morning, but I found my limit by race time. When I went up for my semi final, they were calling the riders in spanish and I had no idea what they were saying. The guy called me up as the start beeps were going and pointed down the track signaling for me to go, so I threw on my goggles and went. Not an ideal start. I had a smoother run than I expected and ended up second in the semi. I was really feeling good for the final. The track was running faster and I knew I was on pace to put down a good run. I had a nice warm up with sand man at the top this time. I left the start house and had a full on crash about 10 sec into the race. I was pretty bummed, but glad to be uninjured. I got up and carried on down the track as quickly as I could, but after a crash like that in the race run, you just can get into it. Brendan Fairclough took the win, always glad to see him do well. Although on paper my weekend doesn't look great, I got what I came here for. I learned a lot and was riding at the pace I want to be. I got a muddy race in and am familiar with that routine again. Good to get all the bugs worked out here and ramp up to the important races. In four weeks time I will be racing the world cup in South Africa, and I am feeling really confident in my ability to reach my goals.

Results 
1. Brendan Fairclough GBR 2.46.670
2. Bernat Guardia ESP 2.47.242
3. Robin Wallner SWE 2.47.677
4. Antonio Ferrererio ESP 2.48.671
5. Thibaut Ruffin FRA 2.49.022
25. Neko Mulally USA 2.57.458


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