Forrest Riesco Update for July, 2014
The start of the season has been good. I’m not exactly ecstatic about how my results look on paper, but I am very happy with how I have been racing. I believe you can break down racing almost to a science with preparing mentally, physically and mechanically, but there is always going to be things that are out of your control. For a 4 minute track I can get to the start line and know that I have every piece of the track memorized and dialed. Down to braking points, shifting points, how hard I will pedal, where to take a recovery breath, where to get a bit loose and where to keep it steady. But there will always be variables such as a loose rock in a corner or a mechanical issue. Aside from learning a lot about my riding style, my mental preparation and my bike setup I have learned that to be a racer (Or at least a decent one) you have to except that some things are out of your control, so you have to be satisfied with yourself for putting down a 100% effort.
With some really awesome tracks on the schedule for the next few weeks I am excited see what I can do!
2014 results so far:
- Cairns World Cup, Australia: 37th (46th in qualifying)
- Sunshine Coaster DH: 2nd
- Tremblant Canada Cup, Quebec: 9th
- Fort William World Cup, Scotland: 87th in qualifying
- Leogang World Cup, Austria: 74th (46th in qualifying)
- Schladming IXS Cup, Austria: 22nd
- Panorama Canada Cup, BC: 7th
- Sun Peaks Canadian National Championships, BC: 6th
I will be leaving for the Mont Sainte Anne and Windham World Cups next week. I couldn’t be more happy to race MSA again as well as see what the Windham track has to offer, as I’ve heard only good things about it. After that I head straight to Crankworx for the Canadian Open DH. I am in the process of planning out what races I’ll be attending after Crankworx, it also depends on whether or not I make the cut for the National team at the end of the season. I will send out an update as soon as I have more info on that.
I try to keep these emails as short as I can, so if you would like to read a more detailed update on all my races you can check out my blog a forrestriesco.blogspot.ca. And you can always follow my racing on my Facebook Athlete page at Facebook.com/ForrestRiescoDH as well as on instagram at forrestriescodh.
Cheers to everyone helping me out this season!
Forrest
Here are some recent shots by Paul Hodgson.
