After my final rest day where I did a short ride in the morning and then went on to watch a race in the afternoon, I was ready to get back into the action. The fatigue was definitely beginning to catch up with me, but a 20km ‘commute’ helped to spin most of the soreness…
Junior Tour of Wales 2017 Harrison Wood I’ve had a very busy racing schedule this year, both abroad and within the UK. I was interested to see how i would cope with the end of season stage race. Stage 1 was a 5.2 mile tt going up a climb, then rolling downhill then up the…
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…