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Race Reports,Skids,Training and what goes with it...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516590137655704888noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242766129165849309.post-2425513570284954502015-11-18T00:21:00.002-08:002015-11-18T00:21:31.125-08:00Ben Forbes Trip Episode 9 - Granada, Spain <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QIAVZDn8RDs?list=PLjqDTuuYxf2Km5v6X5OJSb9os1MdK6GqA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516590137655704888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242766129165849309.post-77431985036287554692015-11-18T00:20:00.003-08:002015-11-18T00:20:47.380-08:00Ben Forbes 2015 Trip Episode 8 - Andorra MTB World Champs <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TckJrazLnGY?list=PLjqDTuuYxf2Km5v6X5OJSb9os1MdK6GqA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516590137655704888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242766129165849309.post-13882645076467607412015-11-18T00:20:00.001-08:002015-11-18T00:20:07.677-08:00Ben Forbes 2015 Trip Episode 7 - Finale Ligure, italy <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AcbO1h2JoiU?list=PLjqDTuuYxf2Km5v6X5OJSb9os1MdK6GqA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516590137655704888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242766129165849309.post-66422155801314249062015-11-18T00:19:00.004-08:002015-11-18T00:19:32.228-08:00Ben Forbes 2015 Trip Episode 6 - Val Di Sole World Cup <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/avNlYw743IU?list=PLjqDTuuYxf2Km5v6X5OJSb9os1MdK6GqA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516590137655704888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242766129165849309.post-23306379411294890642015-11-18T00:19:00.002-08:002015-11-18T00:19:07.462-08:00Ben Forbes 2015 Trip Episode 5 - New York City <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0FOC59F7mSA?list=PLjqDTuuYxf2Km5v6X5OJSb9os1MdK6GqA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516590137655704888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242766129165849309.post-11446458821591449182015-11-18T00:18:00.004-08:002015-11-18T00:18:40.078-08:00Ben Forbes Trip - 2015 Whistler Crankworx Whip Off World Champs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjkS0f4gwco&index=5&list=PLjqDTuuYxf2Km5v6X5OJSb9os1MdK6GqAAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516590137655704888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242766129165849309.post-5574983562272041012015-11-18T00:18:00.001-08:002015-11-18T00:18:14.748-08:00Ben Forbes 2015 Trip Episode 4 - Whistler Crankworx <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TnpXHLEHCIU?list=PLjqDTuuYxf2Km5v6X5OJSb9os1MdK6GqA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516590137655704888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242766129165849309.post-18935644208760149892015-11-18T00:17:00.001-08:002015-11-18T00:17:45.710-08:00Ben Forbes 2015 Trip Episode 3 - Crested Butte Stage 7 Practise <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lARy4IfoxdM?list=PLjqDTuuYxf2Km5v6X5OJSb9os1MdK6GqA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516590137655704888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242766129165849309.post-14378519969507041902015-11-18T00:15:00.000-08:002015-11-18T00:17:13.553-08:00Ben Forbes 2015 Trip Episode 2 - Aussie Enduro Crew in Keystone, Colorado <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kepNcUPYtDc?list=PLjqDTuuYxf2Km5v6X5OJSb9os1MdK6GqA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516590137655704888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242766129165849309.post-34552257607735977382015-11-18T00:13:00.001-08:002015-11-18T00:16:35.339-08:00Ben Forbes 2015 Trip Episode 1 - Aussie Enduro Crew in Winter Park, Colorado <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nBJxm9JIMq0?list=PLjqDTuuYxf2Km5v6X5OJSb9os1MdK6GqA" width="560"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516590137655704888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242766129165849309.post-44967306960400973332015-08-20T15:22:00.001-07:002015-08-20T15:28:14.234-07:00Interesting Travel DayTRAVEL DAY<br />
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5:50am - Bus Shuttle from Whistler Vancouver<br />
3 Hour Shuttle<br />
7 Hour Wait at airport for flight because I mixed up am and pm.<br />
1.5 Hour Flight Delay<br />
5.5 Hour Flight to JFK, new York ( Slept for 1 Hour )<br />
Train to Baggage Storage<br />
7 Hours before next flight which left at 6pm<br />
1 Hour Train to New York City<br />
Met Jay (A rad guy I met on Spinlister.com to borrow his road bike)<br />
Rode down Central Park top to bottom, Times Square to Soho where I tracked down John Bleeker's Pizzaria, (Best Pizza in NYC Award)<br />
Funny menu, don't get me wrong it was big and tasty but it cost me $34+$3TipUSD ($50AUD)<br />
Rode straight back through mid town via Trader Joes to buy some beloved #CookieButter to get on the first train at 1.45pm, exactly as planned.<br />
BUT THEN The trains got delayed!<br />
Got to luggage storage, and after having to get cash out since it was cash only I had my bags and it was 3.30pm!<br />
Caught train to my terminal<br />
1 Hour till my flight<br />
I Got through American Airlines Chaos check in (People crying every where with exploding bags)<br />
I had a really nice check in lady that said that both my bike and bag were 2kg's over each. So I took a jumper out and put it in my other bag :/<br />
Then due to a miss communication, I got the labels off another lady and through my bags went though after I grabbed another handfull of clothes out the check in bag. At this point it my flight was boarding.<br />
Got the express line through customs, still had to do the whole shoes off, stand in the tube, bend over and cough.<br />
Oh great my bag is getting searched.<br />
They pull out the 2 jars of unopened cookie butter that I forgot about.<br />
"Fine Bin it my flight was boarding 5 minuets ago"<br />
Re-packed my bag with my laptop (At this point I still hadn't had my my post NYC Commute Protein!)<br />
Ran as hard as I could looking like a dude with a bomb.<br />
Just got on the plane, sweating everywhere<br />
Still in my cycling jersey and nix just to grow mushrooms for the fun of it. (Yes I was wearing baggies over the top)<br />
Plane turns off<br />
Get Delayed for 3 hours<br />
So everyone got off the plane.<br />
13 Hour Flight (Didn't Sleep)<br />
landed at 9am<br />
6 Hours catching 2 Trains to Finale Ligure (Slept a little)<br />
Got all my shit out to the street<br />
Picked up by my AirBnB host<br />
I was hungry, So I had to build up my bike to ride down the mountain to buy a Calzone Pizza and buy some groceries from the SPAR - All I found was Nutella, Biscotti and eggs :/<br />
Rode back up the hill<br />
Got to bed at 9pm<br />
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Riding in the Whistler Mountain Bike Park was a dream come true, I noticed so many iconic sections of trail that I instantly remembered from the old MTB Movies. When I was 8 getting a sore neck staring up at the TV in the Bike shop watching New World Disorder, I never would have thought I would be riding the same roots and rocks as those dudes let alone see them in person walking around the village.<br />
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2 days out from race I unfortunately tried Manuel to bunny hope, a rope, looped out and fell from my shoulder height onto the ground whinded my self for 5 minuets, sounding like this...<br />
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I rode with my sore wrist wanting to throw up. Food, Shower, Bed.<br />
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Day before the race I got out to practise stage 1 'hey bud'. My wrist was terrible, I climbed for 1 hour to do one 8minuet run, but I just wanted to get off the track after the first couple of corners it hurt that much.<br />
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Stage 1 - 99th<br />
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2 corners in I was really surprised my wrist was not too bad, I didn't have to ride to the limit of my wrist because I was riding to the limit of the wet roots. I decided to ride the stage as if it was Stage 1 at Rotorua where slower is faster. Stoked to not crash.<br />
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Stage 2 - 81st<br />
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Stage 3 - 59th<br />
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My best stage. Fast open section with switchbacks into tight wet rooty single track like stage 1.<br />
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Stage 4 - 81st<br />
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I had a great run with out any mistakes.<br />
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Stage 5 - 71st<br />
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The Race within the Race. This stage started at the Top of the mountain and followed all the downhill tracks into the village. I had a Pinned run but as went to turn into the track we practised over and over for that stage, but the race went a different route. I got my bike and myself caught up in the bunting and easily lost over 15 seconds getting untangled. I got going again, Lindsay then passed me, I followed him all the way down one of the tracks, he then lost his chain! So I got back on the gas and had a smooth run all the way to the bottom have my second best stage.<br />
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Overall 79th Place - Looking back at results, I was pretty disappointed, but stoked that I was even able to ride the whole day on a my sore wrist.<br />
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The next day I went to the hospital, the doctor, said he defiantly looks like something is broken from the 'Distortion' (Purple and Swollen) He sent me off for an X-Ray, and the doctor said its fine! No Fractures! He was still puzzled as to why it looked so bad. Time to Heal.<br />
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NEXT! 1 Week of Whistler Crankworx, Then onto Finale Ligure, Italy!<br />
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Thanks to this Crew for a mad 3 weeks<br />
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Bus Shuttle left at 9pm<br />
First Liaison 10:37am<br />
Stage 1 Start Time 11:37am<br />
Stage 2 Start Time 3:02pm<br />
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Stage 1 - 38th<br />
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It went well, felt controlled but a bit loose at times, especially around the rocks where I heard a lot of 'Dings'. In the last couple of minuets of the stage I had caught up to Timmy who couldn't hear me yelling due to us wearing full faces and going 30kph down the granite sandy track. He eventually saw me on a switchback and let me pass. I was very happy with the run, alot to take in for a 15 minuet stage.<br />
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We were given 3 hours to get to the next stage, we didn't less around and but still only had 10min to spare. It started with a 1 hour fire road climb then up a downhill track that looked better than stage 2!. The downhill track took 1h50min to climb up which was mostly pushing our bikes. This made for the hardest day on the bike i'v had! Wanting to absolutely die up the top, I sat down for 5min then go the legs spinning ready for stage 2. (omg I want to sleep just writing this)<br />
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Stage 2 - 52th<br />
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Fun, funny, leg burning, annoying but successful. It was roughly split into a 3 tracks, 1 fast rock, rooty track into a flat rooty xc track that had a climb where I caught up to the 2 riders in front of me which happen to be Timmy and Lindsay who had just crashed, as we were trying to run up the climb I passed Timmy and followed Lindsay's dust for a 45 seconds then he crashed again and I was able to open up and ski down the 3rd part of the stage which was a 2 minuet rocky shoot finishing into a creek!<br />
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5 hours of riding, 50K, 1711m Elevation later.. We got shuttled back to the event village. After an hour or so of dyeing on the grass we drove to our accommodation, ate some corn chips and Lindsay and I headed to the bike park to practise 2 stages that are on Day 3 of racing.<br />
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With a 3 months of bike parks and epic mountains ahead of me, the packing for this trip was important. Iv taken basically a second bike in spares all for that 'What If?' that lingers around in my head leading up to this trip. But with only 2 x 23KG checked in bags I had to get priorities right, so I packed the essentials. </div>
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It was a long travel day, 13hour Flight to Los-Angeles, Bus to Domestic Terminal, 5hour wait til my 3hour flight to Denver, Train to my baggage!?, Bus to Car hire to meet the lads Lindsay Klein, Timmy McCullough and Issac Denny. We jumped into our BEAST F150 and had a 1h 40min drive to Winter Park, Denver, Colorado.</div>
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Mt Buller, VIC, AUS - 5,922ft in village</div>
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Winter Park, CO, - 9,100ft in town</div>
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Keystone, CO - 9,280ft in town - 12,408ft at summit</div>
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Crested Butte, CO - 9,375ft in town - 12,162ft at summit</div>
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To put it into perspective, iv always felt the altitude when going to Mt Buller, lungs hurt, short of breath, and when it comes to sprinting a bike, 'tunnel vision' would be my word of choice.</div>
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At Winter Park and Keystone! Its all the same except much more, slight tunnel vision can be felt just climbing up a hill, lungs and legs hurt, and the sprint efforts...that was an experience, I felt like a kid from fat camp that had to sprint with his mouth shut.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">The Crested Butte Trails were interesting at first, High speed, Foot wide narrow, and can only see a couple of meters ahead with the outside of the trail being covered by flowers upto your handle bars which you hit non stop, to be honest, not that fun, just epic scenery. But it turned out that all the stages of the race were a 20min drive away from the town of Crested Butte.</span><br />
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The practise days were long. On the Wednesday the course got released at 8am so we decided what we wanted to do and headed off at 9am to practise stage 2 then stage 5 and 8 in the after noon. We got to the liaison that goes upto the stage of stage 2. "Ah yeh should take us take 45min to climb" 1h25min later of walking up steep 'Hiking' trails we got the stage of stage 2. It was a good 15min stage down a long open field down a rut of rocks, then BAM into a 30second climb that we got off and pushed :/ (It was steep! and at altitude) then we had to ride out to where Timmy was waiting with our shutttle (2 hours later). We then found another way up the hill that was a lot easier. We did one more run that was only a 45min Ride/Push to the top. We got home for lunch at 4pm 0_o<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Most Techy Stage, wet roots and slick mud, I was riding well but then I had a crash that took me down a bank with the bike on top of me, took ages to get back up and had another 2 crashes, very hard to stay on the bike on such a crazy course, going half the pace would have been twice as fast. Pretty disappointed at the end of that one, even tho everyone had a diggers (crashing). At I lost my tooth brush!! in probley the rowdiest crowd, it was still clean, "Your toothbrush!! you forgot your toothbrush!!" was all i could hear for the next 3 switch backs :/</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">This stage was short and flat and suited me the most, but I had another crash on a straight after jump landing on a wet root, front wheel washed out hard and go all tangled up, lost alot of time in that fast section. "Calm Yu Farm Ben" - Deep thoughts as I got my stuff together.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">MUD,ROOTS,MUD. Had a really good run.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">5.52</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">33 back - 71st</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b style="line-height: 21.3000011444092px;">STAGE 5 Hatu Patu</b><span style="line-height: 21.3000011444092px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3000011444092px;">Very Similar to stage 1. There is a section where you jump around a tree onto a blind 'Off Camber Wet root section' Had one crash trying to pull off that impossible maneuver, which was replayed over and over in the Redbull.live Highlights :/</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">4.01</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">43 back - 76th</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Had a really good run. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">4.09</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">31 back - 59th</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">This was proper enduro to me. Started at the very top of the mountain, twice as high as the Crankworx DH course. Started with a tight techy mudfest single track for 2min, onto a fairly long paddock sprint into the full Crankworx DH course. I had a perfect run staying on my bike through the destroyed mud track, sprinted my guts just enough that i didn't go too deep and black out and hit all my lines in the DH course.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">7.21</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">42 back - 50th</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Not the result I'm happy. Looking forward to all the local Enduro, Downhill and X-Country races coming up! And look even more forward to my new 2015 Trek Slash 9.9!!!!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">^^^Every night during the week after washing the bikes, gear and all the clothes, cooking dinner, We then had to plan out each day of riding.</span></span><br />
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The great thing about traveling for enduro racing is instead of spending heaps of time resting in the accommodation all week leading up to a XCO race doing 1.5h rides max you have to get out and do as much riding of the course as possible which is great when going to such great locations such as Mt Buller and Rotorua, New Zealand coming up.</span></pre>
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The first 3 corners I know from the National XC races are sketchy especially since they are the fiat corners. I literally didn't race them just rolled and survived (later found out a few people slid out) got into the red before the last decent which made it hard to focus but got it done getting 2nd behind Jared Graves. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stage went great, just got in the zone and flowed my way down the mountain. i remember at one moment i went to dab a foot around a corner but all i had to put my foot on was a big rock at knee height, must have looked ridiculous.</span></pre>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516590137655704888noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242766129165849309.post-4917003722995352202015-01-11T00:12:00.000-08:002015-01-11T00:12:28.814-08:00First Race of 2015<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Wild West Series at Adare, Gatton, Queensland</span></div>
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Kenmore Cycle ClubAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516590137655704888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242766129165849309.post-49986252589778342122014-11-30T13:42:00.002-08:002014-11-30T13:43:59.331-08:00Ben Forbes in Mt Cootha<div style="text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15516590137655704888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4242766129165849309.post-41971057872370846902014-10-30T01:27:00.001-07:002014-10-30T01:51:54.012-07:002014 Cape 2 Cape - My Last Race with the Torq Team<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<b>CAPE TO CAPE OVERALL - 8th</b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.bluechiptracker.com.au/results.aspx?CId=11&RId=625">CAPE TO CAPE STAGE 4 - 9th</a></b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.bluechiptracker.com.au/results.aspx?CId=11&RId=625">CAPE TO CAPE STAGE 3 - 15th</a></b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.bluechiptracker.com.au/Results.aspx?CId=11&RId=625&EId=6">REDBULL SUNDOWN - 2nd</a></b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.bluechiptracker.com.au/results.aspx?CId=11&RId=625">CAPE TO CAPE STAGE 2 - 13th</a></b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.bluechiptracker.com.au/results.aspx?CId=11&RId=625">CAPE TO CAPE STAGE 1 - 6th</a></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Coming into Cape2Cape I had 3 weeks off
the bike, 1 week on, food poisoning, then 4 days on the bike :D </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">That's what is good about the C2C,
everyone is either in their off season or have just come off a break. Everyone
is relaxed and up for some semi chilled racing with great views and
guaranteed adventures</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">STAGE 1</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">-</span> 'The Beach stage' 42k - 6th<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The shortest stage but the hardest stage - just over the length/time of an XCO race. It's interesting because is the first time you see what sort of form everyone has. I actually enjoy
riding all the sand sections and the beach, riding down the dunes felt like I
was surfing my bike! I was off the beach and sitting in 5th for a while before PVDP and Dan McConnell caught me up as we all passed Brendan'Treky'Johnson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What is a bonk? A bonk is when an athlete
pushes their fitness limits to the end, in my case my fitness limits were not
very hard to reach. I started with the goal to not get lost like I did in this
stage last year, and to do that by hanging onto the lead bunch. Last year I took a
bottle at the half way feed zone, took a drink, got caught in the sand and
crashed off into the bush, panicked, tried to chase to get back onto the lead group
and went the wrong way trying to do so doing 8k's extra. This year at the half
way feed zone I was with the lead group which also included Team mates Mark
Tupalski and Chris Hamilton, Dean gave them bottles but wasn’t quick enough for
me, it’s not like I already chucked my bottle to him with
25k's to go! Ha..no hard feelings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I was dropped from the lead group with
about 5k's to go. I pushed and pushed to get back on. With 1k to go, I slowly
died and headed to Bonk City with my friends Larry Lactate and Peter Pass Out.
I seriously started blinking repetitively and was starting to lose vision like
the time my brother did a choke hold on me when I blacked out in his room. That
is what happens when you keep trying to push your body without nutrition. I
slowly rolled over to the TORQ van for my TORQ THICK SHAKE (Recipe Below). As I
tried to pour my powder into my shaker I couldn't stop my hand from shaking it all
over the floor missing the shaker - I was truly bonked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">REDBULL SHOOTOUT</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">-</span> 'The #Enduro in the pines' 700m - 2nd<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The TORQ Team rolled up, we got our
practice runs in and after some riders got the finish line jump taken out due
to their complaints, we waited for our race run. Thanks to Dan McConnell for
getting me in race mode telling me I was late for my race, the blood was
pumping. I had my seat down and I was ready to go full enduro for the 700m
flowy track with at least 15 doubles and one 100m climb. My race run felt
great, I was racing like my life depended on it and forgetting I was on a
hardtail XC bike. I had a clean run and went straight to the hot seat with a
time of 1:53. Next rider down, Paul Van Der Ploeg, Skilled and legs the size of
baby hippos. He pumped out a 1:52. Shane Wode and Andy Blair tied for 3rd with
a time of 1:54. Josh Carlson well known Enduro World Series rider rode a 1:51!!
Putting me in 3rd but Josh was an invitational rider as he wasn't in the Top
20 Open men So I got 2nd place and a time bonus of 45seconds for my overall Cape to Cape time. Also one second off the $1000 prize money!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Em Parkes won the Elite Women!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Aim of the stage, to smash myself before
all the single track entrances to get in front of as many people as I could so
I didn't get held up. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I forgot I was racing, I had done so much
single tack that I was in a trance. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">100m to go, I dropped the gears into
sprint mode to explode for the sprint went to the right of the group which was
the longest slowest grass that was like riding a bike with no wheels, and like
riding a bike with no wheels I flipped, twisted my seat and broke a spoke, but
it was long grass so I was fine. I looked up and Ben Henderson sat up and asked
if I was alright!? "Keep going!" I yelled. The crashing didn't end until
the end of stage 4...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">This stage ended with a 3ks of single
track of 'Pea Gravel' which is like marbles on hard pack, the loosest possible
track. I was sitting about 5th in our group in the single track. I wanted to
explode, I didn't feel like I wanted to just hang onto the group anymore,
I was going for a win (little did I know there were 2 guys 2minuets in front of our
group). But I didn't know that. I was so ready I was already sitting in my
sprinting gears for the whole 3k's of single track in a big gear scoping for
any possible chance move up the group. Because of the sketchy pea gravel and my
feeling of wanting to turn into a T- Rex on STEROIDS I felt like I was about to
kill someone. The track had a fork, half went left and half went right then it
all joined up and we were in the open and everyone was in full sprint, I was
only able to sprint for 1 position as I crossed the line. I swear at this point I tried stopping but
I seemed to gain speed as I headed straight into a metal barrier, I slammed sideways
into it pinning Team mate Chris Hamilton in between another metal barrier.
An official asked "what do you want to do?" I
replied........................."ah, get up". It was that easy, I
couldn't figure out what was twisted where but the bike was all good and I’m
all good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Team Results:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: orange;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: orange; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://capetocapemtb.com/results/2014-2" style="background-color: black;">http://capetocapemtb.com/results/2014-2</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Mark Tupalski - 1st Overall, 11th Redbull
Shoot out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Chris Hamilton - 3rd Overall, 49th Redbull
Shoot out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Ben Forbes - 8th Overall, 3rd Redbull
Shoot out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Em Parks - 3rd Overall, 1st Redbull shoot
out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chris Hamilton and myself up for the fastest person to eat a Torq Bar (video
found on the Torq Facebook page) Mark Tupalski Winning Again! 49seconds. Can
you beat him?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Monday Morning - Hungover and in a deep sleep I was woken with
a bursting balloon on my head, Thanks guys. We packed and cleaned up and it was goodbye to
the Torq Team - A shake of hands and hugs, Chris Hamilton said he had to go
before he cried. I'm sure I'll be seeing this bunch of planks everywhere, they
will be friends for life. After just 1 year of being in the team, it feels like
10 years. It's the first team I've been in, they have been like a second family. The
hardest thing about leaving the team is that with them you know you're guaranteed to have a
great trip away and finding yourself in all sorts of adventures like concussing
yourself on a kid’s bike. I've learnt so much from these guys about being in a team. It feels amazing to be apart of such a passionate team that is full of personalities that are so motivating for me. Its very sad to move on. Thank you Dean and Gen Clarke for the opportunities. As I move onto the ENDURO scene, The Torq Team also moves onto some new sponsors!</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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