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Lucy Brooks Back On The Trail

Jodie — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:28:49 +0000

I raced the VOTWO Kamikaze 2 weekends ago. Being my first race in a year because of my back, and having been only able to run 3-4 times a week I wasn’t at all sure how my fitness would be, but somehow I managed to win – article attached. It was great fun, I’ll definitely do another of those!

http://www.votwo.co.uk/votwo2007/community/news-item.php?start=0&offset=&item=192

Last weekend I raced the South Downs Relay for Chichester Runners. I got the Chichester women’s record on 2 of my 3 legs so am happy that progress seems to be going the right way.

Thanks for the powder shakes – they’re fabulous, much easier to transport around etc. I took a couple of shakes along to the race and people loved them !

A Big Welsh Weekend

Jodie — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:05:37 +0000

Last weekend was the third round of the Mountain Bike National Series. It was held at Margam Park in Wales.
I travelled down on Friday afternoon with some friends. It was to be my first experience of camping in a tent before my race. I normally have the luxury of a camper van but as Rick was working Saturday this wasn’t to be the case.
Once we finally arrived at the park, we started to set up our pitch. The main thing was to find a level area of ground. Most of the flat sections had been taken so we had to make do with being slightly on a downhill!
My tent went up straight away, I had bought a pop up style quick pitch tent that all collapses down into the size of a wheel bag. Pretty handy really and it meant I didn’t have to study any instructions which is always good!
That night it must have rained for at least 5 hours solid and when I woke up it continued for basically the rest of the day. I had a terrible nights sleep, but I had stayed very warm.
My race started at 10am so I had to get up early to eat breakfast and head out to check a lap out. It was very unpleasant pre riding the lap in the pouring rain and getting covered in mud! It was also very tricky riding the circuit, descents that would normally be not too bad were becoming so hard and had turned to running in places. The off camber sections were so slippery and you needed good balance. I was not massively looking forward to the race after having ridden 1 lap! However I stayed positive put dry kit on rubbed my legs in and headed to the start line.
We lined up in the rain and finished in the rain! I got a good start and seemed to be climbing well but as soon as I hit the technical sections I had problems, the main problem being I had rather a few crashes down the descents which lost me time and caused me some significant pain especially as I seemed to always land on rocks!
At the very top of the course it was very hard to see much, the mist had come in and the rain kept falling making visibility poor. There were also 2 river crossings to do, just in case we were not wet enough all ready!
The race was a long 4 laps and was over 2 hours for me, I was very happy to finish and was pleased to have made a podium spot finishing 5th.
A few of the other races later in the day were cut short because of the conditions!
My kit was also unrecognisable by the end so it took some serious soaking and washing time when I got home. I think I should be sponsored by Vanish, by the amount I used!!!
The next day was the enduro racing, something I did not opt for because I was absolutely shattered and very sore. Walking was even hard work!! So instead I looked after Rick and handed bottles up to him.
The next round of the national series is at Dalby Forest where I will get to check out the world cup circuit! I am also looking forward to the Horizon Fitness women’s tour series at Stoke it will be great to be with all the girls racing as a team.
Really like the new FGS powders they are great and taste really good too which is always important!!

Gabby Day

Virgin London Marathon Expo

alexbrooks — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:50:18 +0000

Are you racing the London Marathon this year?
Come and visit us at the Expo if you are and get your hands on a World First.

See you there
Alex

Introducing a World First

alexbrooks — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:38:51 +0000

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