Welsh 100 mile champs At the end of 2015 I proclaimed I would ride a 100 mile time trial. This was something that I’d previously said repeatedly to Andy Perkins, that I’d never do, and that if he ever heard me talking about it he was to put me straight. Through the winter I had […]

S40/10 SW DC Champs After the last few TT’s being cancelled due to poor weather and poor drivers I was hoping today’s would definitely be on With my season aim the GHS final just around the corner I needed to get a TT under my belt as part of the preparation Driving to the HQ it

Velopark 2/3 Cat 25/08/16  This was the last Velopark race of the summer season, promoted by CS South Hams.  I had to attend a corporate dinner in London for work the night before, so was going to skip it, however I managed to get the train back for 5:30.  Since I’d needed to get a

Tour Of Britain 2016 Sidmouth to Haytor This year the Tour of Britain is back in Devon and as always Mid Devon Cycling Club will offer the members the chance to experience riding the stage on Sunday 9th October 2016 starting in Sidmouth on East Devon’s Jurassic Coast, the modified stage will cover 113-kilometres or

Scones… In the lead up to the 4th Cat Velopark race I’ve been putting in a lot more hours on the bike, along with a little less food consumption than normal. The reason? Clicking that submit button on the Canyon website! With the thought of a new bike delivery dispatch date of 4 weeks, which

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