Joe McCall 2007/2008 MTB Race Diary: March 2008

Its been a while since my last update. Training going ok throughout Jan/Feb, but getting sick twice did not help things.
Hazo and I are just back from Gran Canaria. A bit of relaxing, a bit of biking, and a bit of racing. I entered the GC marathon, 87km and 3600mtrs of climbing!
I also raced in the crit the night before the marathon. 800mtr track with 2 corners!!! Flat out 100%. Got into the final and got dropped straight away, 7th place I think! Legs were ruined though for the main event!
The Marathon was ok. I was riding pretty poorly, no spark there…..I keep the head down though. A long course from Maspalomas to San Bart/Santa Lucia. No real technical secions, just rough fireroads and a bit of tarmac too. I got lost a couple of times and alos friggin punctured on the final descent. I got 17th place, a long way down. 11th was on without the puncture, and I would have easily came 5thish with normal form/no issues, but dem the breaks.
I missed the 1st K Capital cup for this week off. I have to keep focused now for the remaining K Caps to get a reasonable overall placing. The GB Olympic team were over for rnd # 1, with world class rider Oli just taking the win from Robin, great to see this level of racing in Ireland.