Final report from Chatel

Track in Chatel was really rough. I had to go for stiffer set up for fork for three times before i felt like i wasn't going over the bars all the time. On saturday i felt pretty good on track until i tried to push a bit harder on two turns. There was "wall" on inside of the turn and because of bush on it i couldn't see  how near it really was. My knuckle got between rock and bar and i was pretty sure i broke my hand. After about hour i decided to go out and try if i was able to ride with it and i was able to do that.
On seedings hand got a bit sore as i was riding so i took pretty easy and took 38. place.
On finals day hand felt good and it wasn't bothering too much. When i was doing warm up for final run i felt that i wasn't fully healty, afterwards it came clear that i was becoming ill.
I couln't get my legs open. As i was pedalling little uphills my leg got tired everytime, normally it doesn't happen or after few times it goes away with warm up, some kicks and stretching.
Although it was so muddy and i though i was going to do some mistakes anyway, i would just give my best and try to keep speed up. After strong pedalling section, on steep root section, i got to 30cm deep rut and lost my balance. Couldn't keep it on two wheels as there was no way to steer and as i stomp my leg down it just slipped on mud. I slid down the mud and behind one tree. I tried to back up but i couldn't, it was too muddy. Finally crowd pushed me to track. I rode down with my left glove very muddy so couldn't push too hard. I crashed before split so i was able to compare my second half to others and i'm pretty sure i was still going top 20 pace. Instead i finished 51.
Very dissapointing end of the season as i did well on three first races and was able to get only thirty-something results, now on this two last races, woriehorn and chatel, i was confident i am going top 20 but got just flat and a crash. Hopefully this will give me motivation to train harder on off season.