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Hi everyone! Here comes yet another race report. Since the last
time you heard from me I have raced 3 races. The first one was
24hours of Canan the weekend after that race in Deerfield, Ohio.
I raced for a team from Ohio. They asked me to race for them and
I couldn't reject their offer. I had heard so much about the race.
The race went fine and we finished 2nd and 4th. I was on the B
team that finished 4th since I was an outsider. My performance
was good in fact one of the best in the entire A and B team. There's
a story on the Biowheel's pages. These articles were written during
the race weekend and are quite impressive as they were even updated
during the race. You can find the articles one by one from the
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Article 1: http://www.biowheels.com/Article.asp?PostID=282
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Article 2: http://www.biowheels.com/Article.asp?PostID=285
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Article 3: http://www.biowheels.com/Article.asp?PostID=287
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Article 4: http://www.biowheels.com/Article.asp?PostID=288
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Article 5: http://www.biowheels.com/Article.asp?PostID=289
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The next weekend I was off to Pennsylvania, to be exact Seven
Springs. We left immediately after 24 hours of Canan and camped
in Seven Springs. I was worried that after such a hard race I
might not have been able to recover. I proved myself wrong. A
lot of swimming in the hotels swimming pool ( we campers were
privileged enough to have access) recovered my muscles just in
time. 7 hours of racing still felt in my legs on Thursday the
day before the Norba National. The day of the race I was fine.
I had a good race although I did think I can do a lot better this
season. I finished 43rd and got my best placing ever at a Norba
National pro race! |
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From there my trip headed to Finland, my home country. I had decided
to go there to work and save some money. To get a working permit
in the USA seemed to difficult. Here I'm now at the moment writing
in the ever long days. |
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The 3rd race was a few days after I had arrived. I didn't plan
to do this race but had to because it sounded so fun. This was
a enduro race (not raced in the USA). This race works as rally
or enduro motocross. The race consists of several special stages
only 1-4km in length. The total time is calculated from these
special stages to see who is the winner. The stages are very technical
and requires a lot of technique. I finished 7th and did not think
I had recovered from my oversea trip. |
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I was not happy about how I did but I had a lot of fun and discovered
that I had lost some of my Finnish terrain technique. Next weekend
is the Finnish X-C championships that I'm trying to get ready
for. I have worked very hard now at construction and I seem to
be very tired each evening. I hope the race goes well. I'm just
trying to keep my legs fresh during the days of hard work. New
race report awaiting about this race and some other races I will
do here soon. The Scandinavian Championships are the 27th of this
month. |
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Best Regards,
Thomas
Nordstrom |
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