Pierre Smith writes about racing at the Nissan Trailseeker #4, also known as #bundubash.
The Trailseeker series is scheduled till late in the season and will keep the standard of racing high till the end of the year.
The fourth leg called #bundubash was a new venue for this year and everyone was excited to race a new route.
I had no idea what to expect from the route until someone said keep some energy in the tank for the last 20km, that person was correct!
The start was extremely fast and hard and very dusty. The first 15 to 20km the leading group was still huge with about 30 to 35 riders and it was a race inside the race to keep a good position at the front of the race.
Not long after the first tough section with a climb and some bumpy roads the group finally got reduced to about 12 guys. Two riders tried to slip of the front and that was a hard chase to catch up with them again. After that chase we were only about six riders left at the front, everyone trying to hold on and catch your breath at the same time.
We got some very nice single track sections on the route and a very lengthy one about 5km before the Hotspot on 45km.
At that stage five of us entered the singletrack at almost the same time, unfortunately I entered the singletrack behind a guy who couldn’t keep up with the guys up front and at the end of the singletrack the three guys in front wasn’t even in sight and it was a very tough chase after that to catch them again.
I was disappointed not to finish in the top five positions but there is always a lot to learn from races and it is important to take the positive aspects out of a race and to improve in the next one.
