With twice as many people as last week, you could tell that tonight's training was going to be a good one. One can definitely see cross withdrawal in many. I was still riding with my old bike and the worn out clincher tires and certain people were trying to psyche me out with their tubdäck. So it looks like I will have to bring out the old red Tufos for next week. Then I am going to fly.

I still need a lot of practice with jumping on the bike and despite loads of practice tonight, it is still not going well. Another exercise was cornering in grass and we were not allowed to use brakes which was fine because I don't normally brake in grass corners unless they are wet. I hardly used my brakes at all tonight.

Then it was time for a 2-lap race again and Sven was on my tail for the whole first lap and did very well on the hill. He was always there so I had to push harder but he would catch up at the gravel corners where I had no grip. But the 2nd time up the hill was where I could win. Finally my hill training comes in handy. Still, my lead was not enough to be all that comfortable...

After I did another 5 rounds of the full lap and everything felt great. I could go on forever at that pace which probably means I was not going fast enough.