Ruiselede Kermis After having a pretty tough time over my first three races out here in Belgium I really wanted to complete the whole race without being dropped or getting pulled out. I put my training wheels on because I was riding out to today’s race, what a great decision that turned out to be!…
An update from Belgium Belgium is the home of cycling, every cyclist’s wet dream, somewhere you just have to experience! I wasn’t going to forgo the chance to race out here and jumped at the idea of sampling some Belgian ‘kermis’ racing. Hetty drove me and her out here, ready to see what it was…
National Ride London Grand Prix This race has been my favourite race since I first competed in it and has since then been the race I most look forward to. It’s my sort of circuit: flat and untechnical, which has only ever ended up in a sprint. This year we decided to drive up early…
Gp de Cherves. Final round of the French national series! Once again I was offered a guest ride by HMT in this race. The biggest race on the French national series. 130kms long with 10km circuits to do. Rolling terrain, narrow lanes and then wide open exposed roads was going to make it tough! The race…
Scarborough Junior National. This was a race which I had heard a lot of stories about from previous years. The Circuit had a large hill in it along with a longish decent so positioning was going to be key for this one. The race got under way and I was right near the front about…
National MTB Championships 2017 22-23rd July: 2017 Cannock Chase: Staffordshire An Epic Battle!! I travelled early again on the Saturday morning with the Birchills to Cannock Chase for the one off National MTB Championships at the end of July. I hadn’t ever ridden in this area but was promised a mixture of trail centre tracks,…
TT Today was the day of one of the biggest UK time trialling events. Alongside the national 10 it is the pinnacle of UK TT’S I’m told. Having recently refocused over to time trialling I was looking forwards to the event. I wasn’t off until 16.40 so this allowed me to travel up on the…
After having a 2 week break since my last race (the national champs) I was going into this feeling quite good. The race wasn’t as long as it usually is because of a lack of day light. It was a very aggressive race with people trying to break away every couple of laps. With about…
Junior National 25 – Ever since I started doing TT’s I’ve always wanted to be able to have a decent crack at a national event. I did this last year in the GHS 10 and came out with 8th overall. I was happy with this but wanted more. I had good season of getting some…
Sunday July 30th saw the second running of the Tour of Witheridge Moor. I hadn’t raced the course before, and it became clear from just a 15 minute spin to warm up a bit that it wasn’t going to be flat. The race was to be 2 laps of 26.5 miles, with a total of…