On the road to Motatapu ( off road actually)
Posted on February 25th, 2010 by richard
My first ever off road race/event is fast approaching with the 2010 Motatapu MTB event only 2 weeks away. I made the decision to ride early this year and with the help of Paul from Blox Apparel I manged to secure an entry.
The next step was to purchase a suitable bike and Scotty Browns came up with a deal I could not turn down and am now the proud owner of a Scott Scale 35 off road machine, kind of like the bad boy brother to my Scott addict road machine.
It has been a major learning curve after riding just road bikes for 25 years. The Port Hills mountain bike tracks have been challenging to say the least, but they way I look at it the Motatapu course cannot be as technical as some of these tracks( I hope).
After starting my training programme on the 14 January at the Tour Down Under Adelaide the fitness levels have slowly improved, a few more weeks prep would have been a little more ideal though!
Ill let you know how is all goes!
Richard
