Irish cross champs

So its the morning after the day before and im meant to be riding some track but the list of sore body parts is to long today, legs, hip, neck, back, shoulders, arms and hands but worth it ? yeah of course first senior national champs first senior national medal makes for a happy Matthew.
So anyway morning of the race I got up which is always a good place to start, got feed and hit the road so first practise lap was great loved the course it was fast, technical dry, muddy it was everything so yeah I was looking forward to it  even got a pre race interview thank to Joe McCall

Do I really sound like that ?

So onto the race, 9 laps, wow tat sounded like a lot..... anyway with a long straight tarmac start I don't really need to say what I did but for those that don't know me I went flat out and usually half way through the first lap I would get caught but not this time lead for a whole lap and coming down the finish straight I even had a gap!wow this was going well 5 second gap then boom the corner I nearly fell of on every practise lap I did fall of, DISASTER but really that just sped up the inevitable when Rodger and Robin came flying past, phew back were I belong.

I stayed with them for a while until Rodgers chain came of cause then Seymour went and then Rodger went flying past trying to catch leaving me on my own by this point I was more worried about putting time into Evan than trying to catch the other 2 so I rode hard as I could (was the champs after all) so it worked out pretty well for me finishing 3rd. Robin won Rodger second me 3rd, WORC won the team prize (who shouted fix back there).

So a good weekend now im of to lye down cause typing this has finished me of .......

Matthew