Having another rest day today as the knee is still sore. While I wasn’t doing anything I decided to get my times from the National at Cyclopark last year so that I can compare them to the regional to see if i am in better shape than last year or not:
| Date | Start | Full Lap |
| 12/06/2021 | 3.154 | 46.174 |
| 12/06/2021 | 3.134 | 46.205 |
| 12/06/2021 | 3.191 | 45.613 |
| 13/06/2021 | 3.114 | 45.632 |
| 18/07/2021 | 3.084 | 45.452 |
| 18/07/2021 | 2.974 | 65.753 |
| Fastest D1 | 2.647 | 35.987 |
| Fastest D2 | 2.596 | 35.911 |
| A final D1 | 2.932 | 43.069 |
| A final D2 | 2.908 | 42.676 |
Weirdly I was faster out of the gate on the second day but a fair bit slower for the full laps. My fastest gate of the was on a par with the slowest gates oin the a final unfortunately I crashed on the second jump so I don’t know how fast I could do a lap.
Still the times will give me something to aim for this weekend.
The winner of my age group won with a fasters time of 2.596 for the gate and 35.911 seconds for the whole lap so you can see that i was way off of the pace last year!
I was basically 0.378 seconds slower out of the gate and 9.541 seconds slower for the full lap!!!! so almost 10 seconds a lap slower!!!
It looks like I need to lap at around 42 seconds to make the A final at Nationals so drop 3 seconds a lap which I am not sure is possible this weekend but lets see. If I can get a good first straight and a good last straight I may be able to do it! It gives me a goal to push towards on Sunday at least.