After making the long trip back from Finland, decided late in the week to ride a fun event. This it was with two 1 hour stints, le-mans style starts, long and short routes and being paired with a youth rider. Won both races and won the paired group with my youth partner Sam Coles, brilliant day good on ASW something different.. 
Drove home and went training with Dave Butcher and team mate Tim Lewis all day bank holiday monday awesome!
After finishing in Crychan on sunday i had a quick trip to cardiff to stay at Greg Evans, washed bikes and started to get ready for Finland.
Monday – finished off bikes and started our trip and in the evening, arrived in Finland on the Thursday morning and went straight into walking the tests.
Mx tests was awesome and fast but the XC test was rocky and very technical.
Day 1. Had a failry good day, bit of something different, especially the XC test, not like wales where you take your brain out on the fire roads, here they have speed limits. Still finished 13th E2 chuffed !
day.2 Didnt improve on 13th but happy with my highest placings so far in the Europeans, T.M was awesome!
Day 1. Felt good going into the event but optimistic as we werent allowed to walk the test. Having rode the test untimed on the first lap i was struggling to find a good pace or a flow to it. Also found not having any idea of my test times meant i didnt know how well i was going or not.
In my case i was not. 
Finished 7th overall and fourth in E2.
Day 2.
Still trying to work out how to ride the test, Mc connells advise was to try riding it faster and scare yourself !!!!
I tryed a few things different i managed a 6th overall, 2nd in the E2.
Still not completley happy but think it just wasnt my test.
Pleased to have cleaned the tight checks. Well done to Gordo and the rest of the team. Head up for Rhyader !!
Sat..
Had good first test which is unusual for me and that put me in the right frame of mind for the hard going everyone was talking about the previous evening.
First tight check no problems , second tight check, thought a bit more steam than usual blew over my face. After 20 mins she wasnt sounding to good downstairs.
but i nursed the baby to the end of the check hoping she would take drink and on we’d go
Just made the check, but that was her lot :( found i had ripped a hose off… with a bit of TLC she was ready for sunday
Sun..
Determined to make up for Sat, i was going to let her have it.
That i did !!!.. i won the day overall and E2 thanks and well done to the rest of the team !
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