I heard some great stories about trails in Powell River and it was my first experience mountain biking here. We got the ferry over the night before everyone else and stayed at the campground right were the race was going to start. Because everyone else was getting the morning ferry, it was going to be a late race start of 12.45pm....this meant we were already there and we got to sleep in ;)
It rained all night long and into the morning and finally stop around 10.30am and hallalula the sun came out - it was such an amazing feeling! So we got off the start line with another police escort through the community of Powell River - everyone was out in full force with the cow bells cheering us on lining the streets with cheers - it was fantastic. As soon as we hit the trail, we were straight in mud and covered head to toe within 10mins (but at least the sun was shining right!!).
We had a good start, but somehow ended up being stuck behind about a group of 20 riders bumper to bumper on the fun flowy single track. We sat back for about 15mins thinking we would come to a section to pass - but it just kept going and going. Ok we had enough and decided to make a move and slowly made our way through the large group of riders and got a break off the front. We then hit the first feedzone and into a 7km dirt road climb. Moving at a pretty good pace, we come to the last few km's where the first timed downhill section was about to be - we hit some rough big rocky dirt road section that sucked the energy from you and I glance back to see I am leading a train of about 10 people behind us - the guys we had managed to pass in the single track had caught us back on the climb ....shit ... they can't get back in front of us just before the single track started again, so I try to pin it as much as I could to keep them behind us - and well we were blessed to the road turn a little narrower and flatten out a little to get the edge over them hit the first enduro timed descent before them. I was second female overall on this one back 15secs from Wendy Sims. We continue on to what was the most unbelievable day of riding and amazing trails and no big climbs (this was my kinda day). The next timed enduro downhill was super tough with a bunch of uphill and I managed to get Wendy back by 4 seconds.
We crossed the finish line with smiling faces and satisfied after an amazing day of riding. We were still sitting comfortably in first place - woohoo!
Some pics from the photographers from the day thanks Dave Silver
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