24hrs of light

Chris Clark Riding the single track at 4am


Eating breakfast

24 hrs of Light was last weekend and it was a great event! I did it as a 2 person team with Jonah Clark who I will be riding Trans Rockies with in August. The idea was that i would ride the first 6hrs and then he would ride about 12 and I would ride the last 6. The first six hrs were tough I pretty much did it at an all out race pace for the entire time and when i was finished it was hard to walk and apparently I looked pasty white...but I had the lead for the first 6 hrs over all the teams including the 8person who were sending out fresh riders every lap!
The next mornign I decided after no sleep and still feeling it from the effort 12hrs before to just ride for 2hrs which was probably a good idea.

Went for a ride today with my younger sister. She hasn't really mountain biked much in the last few years but it was still a good time and she can still turn the big ring.
24hr mtb race is this weekend in Whitehorse and I'm riding as a 2 person team with Jonah Clark my partner for the Trans Rockies. Should be good I'm starting off with the first 6 hours. and fast laps will be about 32-33min.

Hardwood Hills Fiasco

Ok well its kinda like this, Hardwood hills was both good and bad. But not really bad bad just more of a this is a not ideal situation.
To start things off I was feeling super good and lookign forward to the race! I went back to my brothers place and had a good sleep the night before after pre-riding the course and the next morning woke up ready to race and feelign great. The drive to Hardwood is where it all began.
Just before Barrie on the 400 we get into some heavy traffic and we're thinking (my brother was driving and his wife was with us) this doesn't look good but hey its probably just cottage traffic and we'll be allright! Well it turns out there was a major accident on the highway ahead of us and were stuck behind as the highway was closed for 6hrs. So we do the de-tour which take san extra hour of driving and end up at Hardwood hills 10min late for the start of the Elite race...I found a commissaire and explained what happened and asked if I could race anyways and he said "you better get going" I didn't need to be told a second time I was outta there!
I pinned it for the first three laps (even had a bee sting on the first lap) and then on the fourth lap I finally caught 2 guys who dropped out after that. I went around for the fifth lap but still finished dead last in 50th position. Either way I finished the race and although my result wasn't great and I blew up in the fifth lap I still got in a good intensity workout. Oh and I learnt that its always best to sleep as close as possible to the race course as possible...

New Brunswick

Ok so with 2 weekends off between Canada Cups I decided the best thing to do would be stay out east, go to New Brunswick and get in some good quality training with Matt Hadley.
The riding here has been awesome with lots of good roads, fast group rides and enough technical single track to keep me occupied!
The 3rd of ùjune there was a 5hr mtb race in Woolastock NB where pretty much the idea is to see how many laps someone could do in that amount of time. Matt and I decided to enter as a team as this would be the most similar to our actual races. It was a good time and my race plan was to keep it pinned for as long as possible till either I ran out of time or just ran out of energy. The plan worked with me putting in laps 1min faster than anyone else and Matt and I going ont to win with a total of 11laps over second team who had 10 laps.
This past Friday we headed down to the Bay of Fundy to ride in the Fundy Park on some crazy technical single track! after that we went to see the flower pot rocks and then finished the day off with some caving.
My first time ont he east coast is definetly a good experience!
Hardwood on Sunday!!