Another race @ Clujul Pedaleaza

Last week end I had my first race @ Clujul Pedaleaza, the championship in my hometown. I has several races and even if this is the second one, for me was my first participation.

The course was almost the same as @ Cluj Winter Race, but slightly modified, being more difficult and more technical. I was able to ride it a few times before the race and this thing made me faster and more confident on descends. Even if this was an advantage in the race but I almost crash a few times pushing to hard. But this, happened only in the last lap when I was sure for my 3rd place and I tried to catch the 2nd one.

I was from the beginning on the 3rd place, being very close to the guy in front of me, but I couldn’t catch him. I am happy with my run and I think that in the future, if everything will go well, better results will come.
Congrats to everyone that participated and organized this race ! I am waiting the next ones!

Thanks a lot to everyone that cheered me up, it was really motivating! I like to race like this!

Thanks again to to Maros Sport for all the support but also to the other sponsors and partners: Ashima, Continental, Cratoni, Syntace, Joe's No Flats, Xpedo, Adidas Eyewear, Sapim, Thule,Grip Grab, Rest Wise, VDO, KMC Chains, Power Cordz, Kool Stop, Zakudo and Buff. Thanks a lot for reading and next time hope you'll read better news.

You can find more photos here. There were made by Vali Turean, Alin Igritan, Raluca and Sanyi

I will update this post with more photos and maybe a short movie.

Cheers,

Vlad

PS. Here's a movie from the Mures XCO Race that I've told you in my previous post made by my team mate Eli.

2 races in 1 weekend

From the 28th of April until the 1st of May I had a rough weekend. For me was the first weekend with two races in two consecutive days. I had to thing to a new strategy.

Saturday was the first race, the Romanian Cup XCO, organised by the Romanian Cycling Federation.

It was the same, classic course, but with some nice modifications like: new climbs, new descends, some nice jumps and slopes. The course was really really dry and my mistake was not to put with me the Conti Race King tires, that are a bit faster than the X-King. But I didn't regret at all because they've done a really nice job, having a lot of grip with them.

I love that course, but only when is dry. I had a better race than the last one feeling much better. We didn't had the same competitors but was hard. Finally I was 6th at Men Elite and 7th overall.

The next day was the Gepida MTB Marathon. I've raced the short distance as I was tired from the previous day. I had a nice race, was still sunny and dry. The broken tree branches put me in a difficult situation because they could affect the bike integrity. I've lost with another 2 riders for a few km but finally we've ended at the finishline, sprinting for the 1st place. I've finished 1st at my age category and 2nd overall.

Again I am happy for my run and for feeling better and better every day.

I hope to get in a better shape and that the training will have effect.

You can find more photo right HERE

Thanks again to to Maros Sport for all the support but also to the other sponsors and partners:Ashima, Continental, Cratoni, Syntace, Joe's No Flats, Xpedo, Adidas Eyewear, Sapim, Thule,Grip Grab, Rest Wise, VDO, KMC Chains, Power Cordz, Kool Stop, Zakudo and Buff. Thanks a lot for reading and next time hope you'll read better news.

Cheers,

Vlad