Count Steer wrote: Mon Jul 29, 2024 7:29 am
You're excited, Mrs Weeksy is scared....and Weeksy Jr is...?
Incredibly laid back about it all. I think he'll feel the pressure when he's there, but he's a very level headed boy and the pressure doesn't generally seem to affect him. Or certainly not in a way that's perceptible to me anyhow. He just does what he does and it's another day out on the bike.
I'm hoping that now he's finding himself in the top 15 Nationally on a regular basis he also now has a bit more self belief.
It's kinda funny that at some races he now seems to have developed a bit of a fan-boi fan club, with a couple of riders like "oh there's weeksy08, we're all fucked today" and "can you ask James if it's OK for me to follow him", which my reply is a bit cocky of "you can try your best mate"
I think all of this helps though with his mindset. The only thing we couldn't do was get Katy the coach over, she's only just back from the Olympics and has been away most weekends in the last few weeks before that (including 3 days at the National Champs for us) and needs to spend some time at home with family/dogs. But we'll still make it all work and still keep him relaxed, it's just that he won't get the last bits of her knowledge and her calming influence at the time.
But all that said, we've been there done this now, we're a pretty well tuned team and work well together as a crew/rider, so we'll make it work for ourselves for sure.
Screenshot_2024-07-01-20-43-07-729_com.android.chrome by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
(hanging on for dear life and trying to use the “force”)
