2021 Jetblack NSW MTB Championships

Congratulations to Tom Jenkins and Tom Spilsbury who competed in the  "JetBlack NSW MTB Championship" at the Yellomundee Mountain Bike Track in Sydney on 6th June 2021. This event was hosted by the Western Sydney Mountain Bike Club.

The boys formed a team with some mates from MacKillop, Ben Harris and Levi Robinson and they raced under the name  "JetBlack Port Macquarie Team".The boys were shown around the track by Western Sydney MTB Club on Saturday and they knew they were in for a fast and frantic four hour event the next day.

Thanks to Mr Peter Jenkins, Tom's Dad, for the following report on the race:

 "Tom led out and was able to get a good start and was sitting tight on the tail of the lead rider.  Mid-way through the first lap he got a flat and had to run it around the majority of the 4km lap to get back to transition.  With the leader recording a 14:57 lap we were back in last place after the first lap and over 13 min down on the leader  Over the next 4 hours all four boys recorded consistently fast laps and bit by bit picked off the other teams and hunted down the lead team. With half an hour to go we'd climbed back to 2nd and were only 3-4 mins off the leaders. After a couple of super fast laps from the team, Tom Spils rode us into the lead and handed over to Tom for the final lap only 20 secs in front of second.  Another consistent lap would have seen us home for the win but it wasn't to be......another flat mid way through the lap and once again we were on foot giving up the lead and ultimately finishing 2nd only 2.5 minutes behind the leader.  

Tom was able to record the three fastest lap times for the day but disappointed to also have one of the slowest after his 4km cross country run on lap 1 !!"

Such a great achievement for the boys to finish 2nd in the event with so many Sydney teams in attendance.

Well done!