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Two Races, Two Podiums - Spela Horvat

April 23, 2013 -
Spela Horvat

The racing season has started. I was racing constantly for the last two weeks and won two podiums, actually two second places. This season is a fresh start for me; I race on a new bike Scott Gambler 10, signed with a new team Energijateam.com and train with a new trainer and the hard work during the winter has payed off. The first race took me to the croatian island Losinj, where was the first international race and the second one was the first round of the Slovenian national Cup in Avce.

1. International race, island Losinj, Croatia

After a long and cold winter in my home country Slovenia the race in the Adriatic sea was like avacation. It was the first time this year when my bike wasn't muddy. The track was different from what I was used to. It was short, flat at the top, really rocky and steep in the middle and downtown style at the end. The practise runs went really fine and I didn't have any problems on the track, I actually grew to love the track. On Sunday it was racing time. I finished the quali 2nd, 10 seconds behing the winner of the race Zarja Cernilogar. My goal in the finals was to race at the highest level possible and achieve a better timed run, but unfortunatelly I unclipped my clip-in pedal and couldn't clip back in on a bumpy track like this. When I finished my race