Forum menu
Go ride and if the opportunity presents, TEAR THEIR LEGS OFF. 😀
To finish first - you must first finish. And before that - get your entry in.
If your club has gone out of its way to conceal the entry process by not publicising it in the usual places then you have reason to feel sheepish, otherwise you've as much right to enter as the next bloke.
A sight more right than some of the sponsored pay-drivers in F1.
IIRC the dates went up around January on the LVRC website, stating entries via www.riderhq.com prefered. If not SAE with printed entry form.
I entered March.
We have got police permission to up the numbers in each race from 80 to 100.
As with all races there will be a good percentage of 'no shows' yet those having a hissy fit consider themselves to be above entering as a reserve, where there are places left in three of the four races.
I've always got a race when entered as a reserve. My last LVRC road race this year was attended by less than 50% of the entered riders.
****'em off out training.
I've just been to have a look at the LVRC website, as I'm thinking about trying to race this season, and from the discussion on there I'm wondering if I've already left it too late to enter any races! There clearly is a big issue if races are filling up months in advance - I'd be racing A/B and have never raced LVRC, hence I'd be one of the "mainly among the A/B categories and consists of novice riders who have lots of money and being inspired by GBs success in 2012 are kitting themselves up to a professional standard and entering our events because they cannot hack it in BC races". Which is a slightly bizarre comment, as if you're in your early 40s you're hardly going to be a "regular rider". Though I've raced BC races many years ago, and won't bother going out if I didn't think I could hack it in those (finish in the bunch rather than win, but then I never used to win). I think the suggestion to open entries later is a good one to put off those who enter everything months in advance and then don't turn up.
Not that that changes anything about what I said above - you haven't done anything wrong, oldgit.
Well the big days here.
I don't know what folk were worrying about as the field is star studded, I am the lowest of the low today.
It's going to be hard, even though racing has gone well this year, mostly top tens and one win. That said these guys beat me by a margin, and more often than not I'm well ahead of the next bunch. Too good for one and not good enough for the other.
Race starts at 2pm, it's going to be blistering.
smash it!!!
If you're not gonna win it, then attack early on - you'll get into all the race reports anyway, and you may just make it work!
Nice one chuffed your racing! Good luck mate!
****'em and ride it. It may teach the moaning old gits to be a bit quicker in getting their entries in next time.
spin like a boss!
Yay! Have a fabulous day and enjoy every minute of it! Go kick a**!
Do a Tommy, pop off the front, turn like a Dorset Knob, let your tongue flap like a Donkey, then roll over the line knowing you looked like a hero.
The very best of luck, enjoy and check your tan lines later..
😆
Good luck. Your fan club is cheering you on 🙂
Came back to the thread to see if you survived....
Did you? 🙂
Sadly not. Royally outclassed and dropped.
Strangely it wasn't tough like I expected, it was the constant turning of the screw.
I had expected to suffer on the two climbs each lap, but I was more than fine on those.
There was a fast flat section were the group went single file every lap due to the pressure. I had a little incident there that caused a stall and the line just slipped away from me.
Too many elites and 1st cats showing what they can do, it was the nationals after all.
Time to re assess, train harder and loose weight and try and step up a notch or kick back and enjoy regionals.
Racing crits Tuesday and another road race Sunday, that's regional so I'll see how i do.
Todays 100k was a stroll in the park
There was a fast flat section were the group went single file every lap due to the pressure. I had a little incident there that caused a stall and the line just slipped away from me.
Yeah, flat's are harder - you drop off the pace and suddenly the guy in front is 10m away, 20, 30... On the climbs the advantage of being sat on someone's wheel is a lot less, you're going slower and the aerodynamic advantage is minimised.