{"id":1481,"date":"2015-10-09T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lochduart.com\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2015-10-09T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:00:24","slug":"lady-luck-is-my-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lochduart.fr\/lady-luck-is-my-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Luck is my Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Hebridean mountain biker (and British Mountain Bike Marathon Champion) Kerry MacPhee. Kerry is sponsored by Loch Duart<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I snuck off to Portugal on my own last\u00a0weekend to do a Category 1 race and I&rsquo;m delighted to report that the gamble paid off and I got a \u2018podium finish\u2019! Rather than dwell on my less than ideal last few races, I&rsquo;ve got my head down, beavered away at my training and thankfully I&rsquo;m starting to feel a lot better on the bike. I wanted to come out with no pressure and just enjoy the process and try and bag some points and, fortunately, Lady Luck was my friend.<\/p>\n<p>My usual trusted race support team were otherwise engaged this weekend hence I was here on my own. It&rsquo;s less than ideal but I quite like the adventure, even though my bike came a day later than I did. The organisers were very helpful at finding someone to do my bottles for me and recommending a hotel so that was good.<\/p>\n<p>The race itself was bloody brutal (my mum hates me using that word, haha). It was steep, twisty, relentless and boiling hot! For the first time in a race, I didn&rsquo;t even try one of the A lines which was a 6ft drop onto a downslope as I&rsquo;d watched a guy get stretchered off in a neck brace during my first practice lap. I didn&rsquo;t really fancy the potential for a mishap being here on my own so I took the safe option. I moved up to 4th within half a lap and stayed there for most of the race. On\u00a0the last lap I felt I still had some beans left and really pushed and couldn&rsquo;t believe it when I caught sight of 3rd! I caught her with 800m to go and absolutely buried myself on the last climb to get on that podium! Such a good feeling when you can really commit and dig deep.<\/p>\n<p>I still don&rsquo;t feel 100% fit but I felt I raced smartly. My fitness is definitely coming back though and I was able to get my HR pretty high too which I haven&rsquo;t been able to in my last few races so the signs are looking good.<\/p>\n<p>I also had my first ever anti doping today- cannae believe I&rsquo;ve never had to do it until now and, it&rsquo;s hard. It took nearly 2 hours to get 2 samples as I was so dehydrated from the heat! The nice thing about anti doping was meeting the other girls and having a blether with them, so that was a positive.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m definitely going to pencil this race into my diary next year. Now it\u2019s time to enjoy some Portuguese food for dinner rather than the usual pre-race safe option. I&rsquo;m not looking forward to the 3 flights I have to take to get home, what a palaver.<\/p>\n<p>Big thanks to my team Rock and Road and sponsor, Loch Duart &#8211; also my work, Alzheimer Scotland, for not being too annoyed at me for being a day late getting back&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations Kerry!! We\u2019re proud to sponsor you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Kerrymacpheecyclist\">www.facebook.com\/Kerrymacpheecyclist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hebridean mountain biker (and British Mountain Bike Marathon Champion) Kerry MacPhee. Kerry is sponsored by Loch Duart I snuck off to Portugal on my own last\u00a0weekend to do a Category 1 race and I&rsquo;m delighted to report that the gamble paid off and I got a \u2018podium finish\u2019! 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