This weekend i had entered the Nigel Measom Memorial stage race but i was last reserve and simply would not get a ride.
I decided to do a long ride so i set off at 08:00am and rode aound the Banbury Star's 13 mile course before i met Rob so i effectively done an hour before i met him we then rode around the edgehill,shutford,epwell,brailes,radway bishops itchington,southam loop then continued with an edgehill hooknorton adderbury add on to give me grand total of 103 miles in 5 hours and 5 minutes 20.5 mph ave.
Sunday 3 May 2009
Reading CC road race 80km.
I like to race cant be doing with wankers who sit in so when i had the opportunity to break the field i took it.
I started whats called an echelon that effectively is done when it is particually windy it did the trick but left me knackered i clung on up the climb but again started the final climb on the final lap to far down the field to win but finished 10th so again if i had been in a strong position then i would of won or come very close so i know i am tacticly naive but i reckon that will come with races.
I started whats called an echelon that effectively is done when it is particually windy it did the trick but left me knackered i clung on up the climb but again started the final climb on the final lap to far down the field to win but finished 10th so again if i had been in a strong position then i would of won or come very close so i know i am tacticly naive but i reckon that will come with races.
Bridgnorth Road Race 85km Norman Southall Memorial.
Bridgnorth normally strikes fear into the hearts of road cyclist as the terrain is normally quite tough so it was no surprise that this particular course was very challenging.
The bunch was met by an extremely cold morning so i decided to done full fingered gloves and knee warmers.
The race was quite an active one but there was a few superficial attacks that came to nothing so i decided that i would just be attentive and cover the moves.We did the first lap and nothing really happened this was good so it gave me the opportunity to check out the circuit as i have never done it before.
Lap 2 there was a few attacks that i managed to cover but it was the final climb of the lap that was going to be the decider a 5 switchback climb of 1:6 sections to the village of Brompton that was going to thin the field out.
Lap 3 (final lap) the first climb of the lap brought a stange episode i chased down a guy who was drifting off the front looked behind and we had opened up a good gap we decided to persevere we gained 30 seconds relitively quickly but after about 6 miles we got chased down.
The final 3 km i got myself in a great position then all of a sudden 40 riders crossed the double white lines to gain an unfair advantage i started the final climb almost at the back i charged up the climb and finished 15th if i had held my position were would i of finished....we will never know!!!
The bunch was met by an extremely cold morning so i decided to done full fingered gloves and knee warmers.
The race was quite an active one but there was a few superficial attacks that came to nothing so i decided that i would just be attentive and cover the moves.We did the first lap and nothing really happened this was good so it gave me the opportunity to check out the circuit as i have never done it before.
Lap 2 there was a few attacks that i managed to cover but it was the final climb of the lap that was going to be the decider a 5 switchback climb of 1:6 sections to the village of Brompton that was going to thin the field out.
Lap 3 (final lap) the first climb of the lap brought a stange episode i chased down a guy who was drifting off the front looked behind and we had opened up a good gap we decided to persevere we gained 30 seconds relitively quickly but after about 6 miles we got chased down.
The final 3 km i got myself in a great position then all of a sudden 40 riders crossed the double white lines to gain an unfair advantage i started the final climb almost at the back i charged up the climb and finished 15th if i had held my position were would i of finished....we will never know!!!
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