VDHS RD 4, Mt Baw Baw

Описание: Mount Baw Baw, race stats:

Longest time between hollers: 2:53.69.
Excitement pre race weekend: 10/10.
Excitement pre first run Saturday: N/A-absolutely vibing.
Nerves pre qually run: about ready to puke.
Nerves pre race run: 7/10.
Sleep Friday night: 8~ hours.
Sleep Saturday night: N/A- barely dozed on and off for 3hrs.
Nap time race day: approx. 37 minutes dozing.
Runs total for the weekend: 3 per day.
Fun had: N/A- immeasurable.

Qually run time 2026: 5:21.02.
Race run time 2026: 5:31.58.

Qually run time 2025: 7:07.62.
Race run time 2025: 6:45.69.

I was so damn excited for this race. After it being my very first race last year, I was super keen to find out how I'd go this year.

I'm actually surpised I slept so well Friday night, though we didn't need to get up too early so that helped.
Getting to Baw Baw, I was borderline vibrating with excitement. Waiting in line for the first run, I was trying to convice myself to calm the hell down so I could concentrate on riding well. I did not succeed, though luckily, I also didn't crash, all weekend.

Sunday was a bit of a different story, I'd had next to no sleep, food wasn't sitting well with all the excitement and it was race day! Had to calm down.
My practice and qually run on Sunday didn't feel great, I was so damn sleepy, body was not having a bar of being told what to do and even though my qually run was faster, when I got to the bottom of my race run, it had felt so much cleaner and though I'd had much more control and put down an overall better run, rather than the erratic show my qually run had been.

It was a great weekend, getting to be involved with the overall mtb community is my favourite part of the race weekends plus riding with girls. This time around, I was also getting better at actually 'racing'. Choosing lines, committing to push in some areas, and hold back in others, reading the track ok, learning my time sucking flaws and trying to ammend them, managing fatigue and being a bit more confident!
I felt pretty good about the whole thing and rather proud of my developement with just a year gone by.