This is Bobby's first taste of top flight MTBO competition and he has proven that he has quickly learnt the skills necessary to compete at the highest level.
Bobby competed in the 3 main distance races Sprint, Middle and the Long distance.
The Long distance qualifier was held today (Thursday 15th) The physical challenge of the weeks racing and training maybe took its toll as Bobby finished his race (Men B) in 31st place in a time of 2:15:56 for the 24.4km course (that's a straight line!)
Bobby had a solid ride in the 20.1km middle distance final finishing in a respectable 1:56:23 (86th) behind new World champion Samuuli Saarela of Finland who rode the course in 1:06:34.
The Highlight of the week for Bobby was finishing 69th in the technically challenging Sprint competition in a time of 31:31 only 9 minutes down on Aussie world champ Adrian Jackson. Bobby also was faster than a number of riders from Japan, Spain and Israel - Good news for the future!
Still to come for the other riders is the Relay competition - It would be great to see an Irish Relay team fighting it out in the coming World champs. Next year will be Italy.
Bobby will have a full report on his World champs week when he returns from Portugal.
Full reults and info can be found on the World MTBO champs website.
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