James Dunlop reflects on Good and Bad days on the bike & reports on his strong 3rd place at CDNW Old Hutton.
Bicycle racing, like most other things in life, has good days and bad days. It’s all relative, but today was a good day. To completely understand why it was a good day I’ll give a bit of context.
Let’s start with Capernwray road race; the bad day. You should have read the race report by Sandy (if not, why not? It’s on here somewhere), and you will have realised I came 15th. I was very disappointed with this as I should have had good form but had terrible legs. I didn’t feel right.
The reasons for this I couldn’t pinpoint but decided after a month of racing it would be good to have an easy week, followed by an easy weekend which then turned into another easy week. I managed to get some MTB-ing done on Sunday which made a nice change so allowed a break from racing. A trip to the Docs should mean I can get rid of a cold that’s been bugging me for a while. So both a mental and physical break meant I was ready for the next race, but unsure of the legs having not raced for 2 weeks.
