Windham World Cup

Well after a chilled two days of travelling and a bit of shopping between the two World Cups, we rocked up late at Windham and headed straight to our accomodation. Windhams a pretty small little town with just a few restraunts and bars and in summer is relatively sleepy. 6pack and I got the short straw and were upstairs, with it being around 30 degrees most days it was roasting in our little room! But with so much travelling we were both tired and fell asleep straight away...

The next morning we woke to glorious sunshine and headed into town for breakfast, after a few pancakes and eggs we headed to the supermarket to stock up on groceries for the week. In the afternoon it was track walk, then building and prepping the bikes for the weekend!

The track looked pretty cool, out the start gate and you were flat out into some quite tight turns before some big rocky straights, hit the rock chute and your back into the trees for some technical sections, boost the road crossing and your at split 1. Rail the berm, foot off for the flat right corner, just into the man made hip, pedal and boost the mud bog, hit a series of turns, jump out the woods, sprint across the piste and then throw yourself off the stepdown into the rocks, pin it down the next straight, turn left and smash through the rock garden. Out the woods and pedal down to another road gap, Peatys plunge, over the wooden drop, pedal and cross the finish.


Practise went well and I got everything dialled in well with a nice addition of Gamut USA's new bottom guide, which made pedalling a load smoother and dampened the noise a fair bit. I sqeezed in 11 runs before qualifying, initially I really struggled on the track but come end of practise I was feeling a lot better and pretty confident I could do well. I had all my lines dialled in and had got all the jumps and mud hucks nailed!

Qualifying then, out the gat I pushed hard, got pretty loose and on the first chute really messed up, taking a wrong line and costing me a load of speed and time in to the following section, annoyed I pushed even harder and this caused me to make more mistakes lower down. I got to the bottom and finished 100th. Again missing out on the top 80 qualifying cut. I was devastated to have missed it again, but man what a trip we've had and I'll always have the memories! I'll just have to take it to La Bresse where hopefully everything goes a bit smoother.

This weekend is the Gravity Enduro series at Innerleithen, looking forward to it, should be pretty fun and a bit of a different, more chilled event.