Westpoint 3/4 Crit – 16th August – 2nd place I rode over to Westpoint with Mark Sanders, leaving in what we thought would give us a decent amount of time to get there, however we’d misjudged our timings and arrived with just 20 minutes to spare. After pinning our numbers on and a quick trip…
Yeovil CC ’10’ from Andy Perkins Sarah Lakey, Harrison Wood and me travelled up to the U30/10 course at Podimore near Yeovilton. Conditions looked pretty good stood in the car park warming up – but didn’t translate into fast times on the course as we had hoped. There was virtually no wind on Sunday morning,…
“Cutting it fine in more ways than one” The R25/7 at USK is nice. It’s an honest course, a bit like the S4, and needs to be worked at the whole way round. I’d ridden this event last year and got 2nd, but had a poor ride due to the heat, and very quick dehydration….
Torbay Velopark Sunday 7 August Paignton Regatta For some reason I was more nervous about this race than previous ones. It would not be true to say I can understand and can control nerves before a race- if anyone has this skill please let me know. It feels like something that just happens- my heart…
Matts impressive form continues – here is what he has been up to recently S40/50 TT 24th July This was my first warm up event for the National 25 in a couple of weeks and having not ridden a TT for a month or so, I was interested to see what my TT form was…
The new social ride rota is available to view here Social rides August to November 2016 New riders always welcome!
Race report Westpoint Jenny Corser Tuesday 2 August. I’ve rapidly be learning the intricacies of racing and unfortunately the, rather high pitched, and public forum ‘ chatter’ that goes on behind it. It’s pretty sad. Anyway on a positive note I won this race. It was a very small field, and the last of the…
This weekend saw the British Cycling Masters Criterium Champs held in Milton Keynes – Jason Kettle and I ride in Cat D for riders aged 45-50. The race itself took place at Milton Keynes Bowl and being the National Champs was run over 90 minutes, rather than the usual hour. The course was just over…
Sunday 7th August see’s the Mid Devon CC promote the annual Paignton Regatta Circuit Races. The Regatta races have a long and proud tradition and used to be run on the circuit at the seafront until the Velopark was built. Past winners of the Elite race include Marcin Białobłocki, Chris Opie and our own Andrew Parker!…
The 4’s only race saw a breakaway of two riders from the gun. Building up a steady advantage until the end they worked well together until Ron Daniels from Exeter Wheelers attacked Frank Schirnhofer from Bikechain Ricci in the final lap to take the win. Jason Burkett from the Mid Devon took 3rd in the…