4th cat to elite in 1 season!

Roadie in Bristol has gone from 4th cat to elite licence in one season!. Pretty impressive. That’s over 500 points!

and to top it.. he had a 10 year gap from cycling., smoked like a trooper until august last year where he started cycling again (obviously hitting the chain gangs)

some serious travelling mileage as well

bristol is well known for drugs availability…

Pretty impressive, several 2 week gaps in there too, not like he raced every night.

Saying that… as you say, he’s spent thousands travelling around, and good he’s had the results, but I’m sure more people could do that if they so wanted. He was clearly a very fit 4th cat at the start of the year.

Saying that… as you say, he’s spent thousands travelling around, and good he’s had the results, but I’m sure more people could do that if they so wanted. He was clearly a very fit 4th cat at the start of the year.

Yeah, and it has happened before. Some people are just mental quick.

Saying that however I’ve heard that Cav kept on getting dropped in 4th cat races early on.

He was a schoolboy champion by all accounts but gave up racing until last year

Beating a certain young nick craig 🙂

If it’s in the genes, it’s in the genes

He was a schoolboy champion by all accounts but gave up racing until last year

Beating a certain young nick craig

Not to mention Dave Baker, Phil Dixon and Dan Booth!

Nick Nobel when will you end the omerta? Once you admit what you have been doing cycling can become clean and we can all hold hands forever.

That’s bloody impressive. I’ve spent a thousands travelling round as well, and I’m still 3rd cat and in Sport

and 17. Stuart Marshall – he was world junior cyclo cross champ.

Good result there in 18th place by good old Winnie!! 😉

Never in the field of human cycling was so much……….

I know a couple of examples of people who’ve gone from 4th to first in a single season, although that’s generally because they were very good cyclists and had come back or had come from another endurance sport (i.e. rowers).

It’s a pain when you get to 1st cat – far fewer races. Not that I run that risk any more.

There’s always E/1/2 races? 😕

Eleven months ago I went on my first bike ride for 20 years…..8 months ago I rode my first 4th Cat race….. 4 months ago I gave up smoking….today I’m an ELITE cyclist……sooooooo happy!!!

he’s 46 🙂

There’s always E/1/2 races?

But less 2/3 and 2/3/4 road races.

he’s 46

Slightly too old to go pro then.. That’s a shame.

the infamous Dan Staite springs to mind.

This is bristol have now picked up on it

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Unfit-smoker-46-amazes-cycling-success/story-16919644-detail/story.html

I thought he was on the reserve team for Seoul Olympics, so a bit more than a schoolboy champion? Still an impressive comeback.
Malcolm Elliott was racing competitively at elite level at 48+, I think.

He was also picking up points in E/1/2 races right at the start of the season – including one where he appears to have won the 3/4 race earlier the same day.

50 races in 8 and a half months!! 😯

More to the point his brother is called Toby, Toby Noble FFS what were his parents thinking 🙄

it’s his half brother. he’s called Toby Eichler (who’s on the wilier team)

Impressive..maybe a little too impresive 😕

A colleague met a kid on the GB road development squad (or whatever it is called) at the weekend. My colleague was overtaken by him, but chatted at the nearby cafe. The lad averages 20mph on the road and is 10 years old!

I’ve been racing against him at cyclocross this season. The last two races he’s finished 1 place above me and I’m only cat 4! 🙂

lol at dan staite.

Did mayhem at sandwell with him on the team. Iirc he had a rather grandiose opinion of himself.

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He was a schoolboy champion by all accounts but gave up racing until last year

Beating a certain young nick craig

He did indeed, but it looks from the results that a certain N.Craig was a year younger than everyone else anyway and still finished 20th!

Impressive..maybe a little too impresive

If I’d done 60 miles a day and additional interval sessions at lunch, I’d be mighty upset that someone couldn’t just accept it instead inferring something rather more sinister…..

If I’d done 60 miles a day and additional interval sessions at lunch, I’d be mighty upset that someone couldn’t just accept it instead inferring something rather more sinister…..

yea same here. I know he was putting in some serious miles over the year. I’ve been on the tuesday chain gang rides with him and by time he’d got home he’d have racked up about 130 miles! This was every single week.

I struggled to talk let alone ride home after those rip your legs off chain gangs

If I’d done 60 miles a day and additional interval sessions at lunch, I’d be mighty upset that someone couldn’t just accept it instead inferring something rather more sinister…..

For sure, to infer any such thing smacks of the sour grapes. What an achievement, mind boggling mileage. Kudos. It takes me a couple of days to recover from a chain gang.

You get out what you put into this game.

Fair play to him I say.

That article was hilarious.
One minute he’s an unfit overweight smoker, 16 weeks later he’s winning races!

Two of our first year total beginers have gone from 4th to 2nd with just a handful of local races.
So a massive upping of the ante might have got them higher.

[quoteIf I’d done 60 miles a day and additional interval sessions at lunch, I’d be mighty upset that someone couldn’t just accept it instead inferring something rather more sinister…..[/quote]

Not suggesting anything, its not difficult to ride 60 miles per day plus interval sessions at lunch if you have little else to do, but to do that with a job ( I’m assuming) and to recover for the next days session at that age is nothing short of incredible. Credit to the man he must be super committed to the cause, far from sour grapes I would say envy is a more fitting term 🙂