The race looked like it was going to be pretty muddy when the skies opened up on Saturday and didn’t stop until late Saturday night, but sun on Sunday morning and with the two morning races all done the track had tacked up pretty good with only the creek bottoms being really muddy and rutted up.

With a good start I entered the woods in 4th place, I quickly moved into 3rd and then follwed the front two for a few miles, I made the pass into the lead just before the creek bottom, the track had changed alot since we walked and I made a stupid mistake went down and dropped back to 5th.

By the second lap I had caught back up to second and made a pass, by the time I came around i was 50 odd seconds back from the leader.  I pushed hard and after gas put my head down and got the gap down to where I could see the leader, I made another stupid mistake and dropped back and the last lap I had used most of my energy trying to catch up and wasnt able to push that last lap.  I ended up 2nd.  Overall I was not happy with my result, I needed to win this weekend and I didnt, I rode good and felt strong but its those little things that cost me the race. Thanks to all the help and support.

Photo: Krista Shaw