What a weekend ! I don’t know where to start...trainings on top of the clouds, the perfect weather, the mates, the fast and funtrack, my amazing bike, the smooth organisation ???... To cut a long story short, it was brilliant !
After seeing all the guys from Auvergne, Reunion, Rhône-alpes and it’s short term residents, I was ready for 6min (on average) of flat out riding !
The track, was fast, dusty, full of jumps and felt as looooooong as climbing the Col de Coux with your DH rig (for those who don’t know the Portes du Soleil : "long and painful")... awesome !
On Sunday the organiser offered us an extra hour of training (or 1 hour less in bed) before the first race run, nice. My first run ended up with about 10 meters of tape carefully wrapped around my cogs... a quick rest, snack, 2 litres of good Thonon water, warm up and... 20 sec faster ! I won’t tell you the ranking, it’s hurting my ego...
It was nice to see some "old dogs" coming back, the Misser brothers, Christian Taillefer (remember the WC victory in Les Gets onboard of the ug..., yellow Peugeot), Nicolas Saumur... it looks like there is some serious training going on for the Master World Championship at the end of the month so it was pretty tough to step on the Master podium though !
At the end of the Supercup (a third run for the 50 fastest riders), David Eme had wiped out the rest of the field, congratulations ! The GB racers were there in force, Aston, McKnight, Ewans, Barns to name just a a few. Nimrod Hemo was there as well, coming all the way from Israel, well... Morzine in fact ! Congratulations to Jerôme"Croc"Crocombette for a good 7th place and to Elodie Chesseret, camping buddy, for her victory in the girl category... Auvergne powa !
Surfing the clouds
