Danish Events Day 1 & 2

While I think of it, for those who are interested, I have some of you a website for the Danish results. But it seems they are just on the website http://www.wmtboc2019.dk and then a bit of a hunt for results. The WOC and JWOC results are at the top of the page. The Viborg 6-Days (my event) is linked from the bottom of that page.

For The WOC/JWOC Sprint on Sunday morning, they completely closed the central part of the town. Looked like a fantastic area with streets at odd angles and narrow linking alleyways. I wandered two blocks from my house (which was on a route choice) and found a 7-way intersection and bikes zooming everywhere. The finish was in a town square just up from there. A semicircular finish chute on cobbles. Just as well the forecast rain held off. Would have been very dangerous! No sensible commentary which was disappointing – except reminders of the placings.

The 6-Days Sprint was in the afternoon in the gardens/woods/recreation area on the other side of the lake. Over there.

Interesting course on a double sided 1:4000 map. I lost concentration on one leg and lost a bit of time working my way back around. And then forgot it was a ‘race’ (after last week when I had no rivals). Second by 7min. Happy with that.

Today was the first of two Middle Distance races. Looks fairly straightforward on the map and it was. I misjudged my Distance  coming up the hill from 2 towards 3 (2.5m contours) and took the western track at the big Y on the plateau. Planned to recoup at the next cross track but didn’t see it, so 2 sides of the triangle and the girl 4 min behind caught me there.

Only other problem was a horrible short dash track which had looked ok initially as I took the straightish left hand route 6-7.  The winding single track was great when it went the right way. (The smart money was on Back out to the main road and around to the south.)

So 17min off the pace today against 2 women who had ridden here in the Danish Champs last year. Again happy enough. A fun enough day.