Max Plaxton

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Career Highlights:

2006 Bronze Medal U-23 World Championships

2 X Pan-American Champion

2 X World Relay Champion

5 X National Champion

8 X Norba Pro Podium including 1 win

Close but no cigar

July 16, 2009

Just got back from the Canadian Nationals which took place in St-Felicien, a town located about 4 hours north of Quebec City pretty much in the boonies of northern Quebec. There are pretty good chances that most people who read this will never visit that place. It is hard to believe it took me a total of 17 hours of combined air travel and car to get from my home in Victoria to the race venue and all in the same country. A little retarded IMO. Loosing one of my bags did not help either. A little piece of advice to people who travel with bikes: Do not carry CO2 cartridges, but Big Airs are OK.

But hey the race course was actually amazing. Why can’t this course be some where near a big city or even an airport for that matter? I pre rode the course with my good buddy Kris Sneddon from the Kona team. My bike felt great although I felt somewhat tired from the travel but I hoped I would feel better the next day with a solid sleep.

The race was tough and fast. Surprisingly it stuck quite together with a group of 4 including myself, old man Kabush, Shamoe and Derek Zandstra (not Zoolander). I felt ok but not great and I was really wishing I had at least one of my Sho Air team mates up there with me-maybe we need another Canadian on board J It came down to the last lap and old man Kabush put in a big attack. I did my best to go with him but came up short 9 seconds back in 2nd place. I have a pretty good idea why I did not feel 100 % so can only learn and make sure it does not happen again. That is a cool aspect about racing, if you don’t have the race you were hoping for there is always the next one.

It is great to be back at home, and I have to cherish the time because I have 1 weekend off before a big block of racing starting a World Cup in Mt St Anne followed by another World Cup In Bromont. To finish up the trip come the big Pro XCT races presented by Sho-Air at Mount Snow followed by Windham Mountain. I am absolutely looking forward to defending my lead and putting on a good show.

I love my job and keeping it fun,

Max”the mountie” Plaxton

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