After two weeks off I was ready to get back into it and into the last race for the year. 

The weather wasn’t as bad as it has been in the past with less rain and less mud when I turned up at the track on Saturday, after getting all my Smith goggles ready and everything else sorted out I was good to race.

The sun finally came out for our race on Sunday and it warmed up a little more than the day before so it was going to make the racing a little more pleasant. 

I got a decent start and moved into 4th place going into the trees, when we got out into the long field section I made passes and moved to the front and tried to find a good pace, I struggled a little and dropped back to third, at the end of the first lap I clipped a tree and went down pretty hard.  I came through the barrels at the end of the first lap in 4th spot.  I rode ok and managed to get back up to the front and then move into 2nd place behind my team mate Charlie Mullins, I loosened up and we had a good pace going, at gas I got out quicker and moved into the lead.  I started to pull a gap and had about a 30 second lead with two laps to go. 

About half way around the lap I was forced to change lines and got stuck in a bottomless hole, I lost a bunch of time and dropped to second spot. I was down 30 seconds going into the last lap and was feeling pretty good but I again got stuck in a different bog hole, this time I lost second place and was never able to make it back up. I ended up finishing the race in third place.

I was disapointedwith my 3rd place but I felt like I rode pretty good except for the getting stuck part.

I finished the season in 2nd place and one spot better than last year, I feel like I had a good year and made good progress but came up a little short on my main goal.

I would like to thank all the people that support me on and off the track and I look forward to next season.

Ironman