2013 is now well in motion. This past week I have been In Canberra, Australia for round 5 and 6 of the Australian national Series. We flew on tuesday and got nothing but rain all week. Friday morning the rain had stopped and they worked hard on the super soft, 6 corner, 400m + track. racing was delayed a few hours but we managed to get going. I won all my mottos, semi final and took a big holeshot in the final. I eventually got passed half way around the track as my fitness is not right up yep and I finished 2nd. Day 2 was much the same. still hurting from day 1 it gave a great mental challenge to stay positive and keep attacking the racing. I again won all my mottos and semi final. In the final I got a little sideways on the first jump and lost that slight lead going into the first corner, made a few more little mistakes and finished 2nd.
With all the rain, long track, soft track, super strong wind it would have been easy to make so many excuses and be negative, I am extremely happy with how the weekend went as mentally I stayed strong and thats credit to all the work I have been doing with the one of New Zealands top sports Phyc every week.
Whats coming up: I have another coaching clinic in Christchurch after the last successful clinic in February. Then we have our NZ national champs easter weekend.
-Kurt Pickard
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.