And so to the doyenne of Scottish Cyclocross, Scotlands favourite course, Auchentoshan. I must admit to a particular liking for this course as it was here in 04 that I raced my first race, fell at the first corner and was immediately hooked on the sport. The day started awfy early asit is my club that runs this so I was there taping out the course before it was daylight. The course hasn't changed much in the six years that I've been racing here but it was the silver jubilee event so these…

A new ritual was started before the Strathclyde round, a paneer curry on the Sat night from the curry house in Milngavie. The Strathclyde park round was a new on the circuit, the first half of the course was cracking with a nice balance of wideish singletrack and very fast path, the second half of the course was a grassy climb followed by a descent down to the finish area, the mountain bikers loved the descent, me I was nearly losing my filings each lap.

Another good gridding saw me…

And then the Scottish series began at Meadowmill, after a couple of laps to see how the course was I lined up and got a great gridding, we had been told that after the brow of the hill there was no turn just follow the course. I was on the Sabbath, tubs on, ready to rock. BANG and off I went, a great start and right up there with the fast boys, coming up to the brow of the hill everyone…

This was the first season that I have raced after coming off medication so was determined to give it my best shot, I had trained…