I set off Tuesday Afternoon to get the train up North to my team mate Kippers house , Early Wednesday morning Dan , Kipper and myself headed off to do a photo shoot in ChainReactionCycles and to get all of our new kit for the season , I was super excited to get the new bikes as they looked amazing and I was really eager to get racing on them. After getting the bike and all out new kit myself and kipper packed the car for our early start on Thursday to get the ferry.
After walking the track I was very excited to get practicing on Sunday , the track was nice and long , fast and very tight ,
Up early Saturday morning for a good feed and to go and sign on nice and early , The weather was not to bad but it was very cold , First few runs were taken fairly easy to make sure I knew where I was going ,
After getting to know the track it was great to get some fast runs in Behind my team mate Kipper on the new bikes , Everything felt fresh and The bikes were amazing,
After getting around 6 or so runs in on Saturday I felt very comfortable on the track and was looking forward to race day . On Sunday morning the track seamed to be alot dryer then Saturday which was great , Got to runs in then headed up for my race run feeling good.
My race run started off great , Hit the top of the track exactly how I wanted to and felt very powerful , not long into my run unfortunately I had quite a big over the bars and ended up with a mechanical and could not finish my race run , Having that happen was quite a bummer but all in all was a great weekends riding away on the new bikes and will hopefully make up for the next race I am doing which will be In Bree , Wexford for the second round of the Irish Winter League .
Here are some photos of me from the weekend.
http://www.rootsandrain.com/rider5714/ben-kennedy/photos/
Big thanks to ChainReaction , Nukeproof , Schwalbe and Ride 100%
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