Harry Molloy: British DH Series – final round, Caersws;

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

British DH Series – final round, Caersws;

Caersws was the last chance for everyone to make their last impressions and try to better their series positions. I wanted to better my 6th overall and hopefully get onto the podium again.

The course was the basically the same course from a few years ago at the previous national. There were just a few differences that I thought made it flow better. Also the whole top and middle section had been cleared of trees so it was basically a new track.

The weather was good all weekend even if it was freezing cold at night in the tent. And I had my girlfriend Jasmine as personal warmer upper too.

The track was pretty short and steep for the most of it with a 30second sprint to the finish. It had lots of jumps and no pedalling for the most of it.

I did plenty of runs over the weekend; it wasn’t tiring to do run’s so I squashed in about 10 in on the Saturday and a couple in before seeding on Sunday.

My seeding went well and I tried to put in the best time I could. Points were important from seeding despite not being a lot it would all add up to the overall. I seeded 2nd 2 seconds off of Marc Beaumont. I was really pleased as I initially just wanted to be in contention for the podium.

Race runs added a little more urgency and I managed to go a little faster but I couldn’t pedal as strong in the field. I ended up coming 4th. Just 1 tenth of a second off of Joe Smith and 0.4 seconds off of Ben Cathro. Marc Beaumont was a second ahead of us winning the race. I was pleased with my result as it meant I moved up a place in the overall. In my first season of Elite I had made it to the 5th place overall spot and made it onto the podium twice in the British Series. It’s been a happy end to my first year as a pro.

Here are a few pictures;