UCI Ranking

Every year after the world championship the UCI ranking gets a reset. Every discipline (Road, Cyclocross, MTB Cross country, Grand Fondo, BMX,…) has its own ranking, so has the mountain bike marathon discipline. To gain points you need to participate a UCI World Master Marathon Series, the better your result the higher your points. For winning you gain 100 points, only a small part of the finishers gets points (top 10 to top 20) depending on the competition.

UCI qualification regulation for the World Championship you need to finish in one of these World series in top 5 for women category and top 20 for men category. This gets more difficult each year, because more and more strong women appear at the start line and more and more women start riding professionally.

After the World championship every rider starts from scratch again to get as much points possible. There's no reward for finishing first, but lets say every rider would like to be number one. It’s the next best thing after winning a championship jersey.

My goals this year were a bit like last year, National championship, qualifying for the Worlds and appearing in my best shape at the start line..

Last year I entered 3 of this competitions ending up in the top 50 of the ranking before the WC 2017. To be honest I was a little lucky to qualify that year, finishing 5^th during my first shot in Roc Laissagais. This season I already had a little amount of points from my participation in Roc d’Azur. My next 3 appearances I finished 7^th (Roc Laissagais),6^th (Roc d’ardenne) and 5^th (Drasal Race). To my own surprise during the season I even got on a 22^nd position on the ranking list.

Due to work and other races on the program I was unable to participate in other races. But right before the biggest competition of this season I ended up on spot 25!!!

So resetting the list also means resetting my own goals for next season. Doing better each season means getting closer to the world top. Still one race to ride in little more than a week and I’m keen to ride a good result and already gain some points for next season.