World Championship Trial, Crone Ireland 07/08/2010

The race started from Crone Wood car park and finished at the summit of Djouce covering 6km with 691m climb.

Not knowing the course and what the ground would be like I decided to use the f-lite 230 which proved to be a great decision as a lot of the race was over stone tracks and most of the grass tracks had been sheltered from the rain. Another perfect performance from what is becoming my favourite shoe.
Like the last few weeks the weather was changing every 5 minutes from strong sun to heavy rain. After a few hundred metres I was in 7th position as we made our way up a narrow stone path before leaving the tracks and heading up a steep grass track through the woodland, I think by this point I was in 4th . I finally came to the short but rocky descent which allowed me to move into third position. As we started the final climb I was passed by two, the whole field seemed to be picking up the pace but I couldn’t go with them. I watched them gradually pull away and could hear a couple catching me. As one of them came level I worked alongside him until about 50metres to go and gave it everything finishing in 5th place in 37:36.