As an organiser (and racer) in the ever growing London League, I’m flipping glad that we have chip results.

Love cx racing. All the joy and good spirits of the 90s xc racing with none of the expense, ego or soullessness of modern xc.

Anyone raced an Arkrose?

Fair point but if I were to charge for my time in sorting out paper results it would cost a lot more than a pound or so a rider!

Brass neck, how did you get on?
I saw a tripster laying down and it reminded me of this thread…couldn’t remember the user name and didnt want to ask random people of they were from STW…!
Took the kids (2&5 years) for nearly 2 hours including a little picnic, 5 year old wants to race which is good but 2 year old was doing her best to get knobbly tyre prints on her….!

If you were near the finish during the seniors they were probably playing with our 2 & 5 yo.

Really enjoyed the first round, despite arriving late and having to ride with no warm up or sighting lap.

Nice video up here: https://www.facebook.com/cxsportive/videos/739746679483496/

I never expected Llanishen to be the fast easy course some were saying beforehand; wet grass and mud made it tough.

Not the best start for me. Gridded right at back because of my DNF last week, and I stupidly positioned myself right in the middle of the row .. guaranteeing I was swamped with slower riders for practically half a lap.
Managed to get 10th, so hopefully be in a better start position next week.
Was amazed to see my HR averaged 180-185bpm the whole 45min race … usually I am burned out within 5-10 mins running it so high on a chaingang … not sure if it is a good or bad thing!

Was nice to be riding yesterday at Llanishen. If you’d have told me that I’d be out there 4 months ago as I was lying in a hospital bed with two broken vertebrae I wouldn’t have believed you. I started from the back, not expecting much and sure enough I was pretty much last place for the first couple of laps then began picking people off. Had a massive bonk around halfway which I’m putting down to 1) being unfit and 2) being massively tired due to lack of sleep from my little lad being ill/hospital trips in the last week. Finished 34/48* which I’ll take. I even had to run the last sprint to the line as my chain had shipped. Was really nice to catch up with people as well, some new faces and some old.

*ferrals one of our riders was somehow chipped in juniors, so 48 racing, not 47.

I went to the Abergavenny Food Festival with the family on Sunday. Parked in a field which was a bit churned by cars moving across it.

As we walked across the field, my daughters said that it smelled just like a cyclocross race, just lacking bikes and half naked men changing at the boot of their car. 🙂

Raced Welsh League on Sunday cracking race, the course was fabulous… but WTAF … women race with the V50’s as in gridded in the middle amongst them all!!!?? I mean I know numbers aren’t huge there were maybe 12 women but COME ON… give them their own race even if it is “only” 30 second gap to the V50’s! Disappointing, Welsh league still has quite a long way to go to catch up with many of the others in so many ways frustratingly. I won’t even go there with the prize money sexism issue! 🙄

Loved all the off camber mud ..roll on t Central league this weekend although I fear Welwyn made be hard and fast and lacking in mud.

Interesting reading folks, good to hear some of your experiences and thoughts.

Would you say attendance is growing substantially or is it just increasing but starting to plateau?

Don’t understand why the Welsh leagues are limiting Women’s racing, surely there’s a commissioner you can bring his attention to that particular area or even the remote BC bods…

Good luck to all those racing the 3 Peaks on Sunday 🙂

And wasn’t that requested by the novice women because they didn’t like mixing it in the big fields?

I was wondering about the 3peaks earlier…

Well I went for a hack on my CXer today, lovely and dusty..

Was very surprised to see Foxley so dry; it certainly made for a rougher race once off the concrete.
I had a perfect gridding on 2nd row – and even though my start kinda looked bad when half the field overtook me before we reached top of path, it was actually pretty good; I didn`t bother sprinting off with the herd, instead finding a rhythm early on, and it seemed to pay off … HR was bit lower this week, and positioned 7th at end.

Looking forward to Pembrey

My 2017 3 Peaks race

Great race at Central League 1st round of the season this weekend at Stanborough park, cracking course just needed the mud as it was a fast powerful roadie course. Nearly 100 V40’s! 30 women and 12 in novice women… the fields are ever growing and it’s great to see the sport flourishing so much. I had a good race for 1st league round, enjoyed it rode hard, lost my head on lap 3 but pulled it back. Some good riding and good learning points for next week, first time I’ve had to think tactically and actually race, rather than being in no mans land like most women are as the fields are so small. This is all incredibly exciting for CX racing!

MK this weekend … looking relatively dry again.