40/18 or 19. Usually wishing for a 20 🙂

Sorry for the sneaky high jack…

If any of you looking for a hangover cure on New Years Day the entry is open for Palmer Park Velo’s NY Cross https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/140673/Newbury-New-Year’s-Day-Cyclo-Cross

It should be a really good event, it’s at the tried and tested Goldwell Park in Newbury (home to Newbury Summer CX), there should be pizza & hot coffee available (to be confirmed) and we are working on some rapha like features for the course!!!

It’s a non-ranking event so super cheap, £3 for little ones and £5 for those who are fully grown!

Oh, and fancy dress is being encouraged!!!!!

As you were folks!

Have an entry for the N of England one in Manchester – struggling with a cold though, so thinking it would be wise to swerve it.
Or I may cast off the blouse and get stuck in for 40 mins. Hmmmm – make me mind up on the day.

North of England champs at Manchester on Sunday, then National trophy at Bradford next week…what was I thinking 🙂

Aim of the day will be not the 1st guy to get lapped

Likewise I was wondering about Lovecrossed. Doing the SPAM 50km on 3rd Jan on the cx bike too. Anyone ridden Lovecrossed before?

I have just spent the night at work entering all the remaining Central league CX I can race (all except 2nd Jan) and Love Crossed!

now I just have to sort my full race licence out to do the Nationals and annual leave to do the Wessex League race in Abingdon! ooo 2 races on a weekend I’m beginning to feel like a pro 😉

Tremendous day at Irvine beach for the Scottish champs, surprise late entrant: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-35029568

Happy ending – no one rode over him and he’ll be off to Gran Canaria after a bit of a race.

Should make next year’s risk assessment interesting.

I did OK yesterday, robbed of a top 10 finish on the penultimate lap when a rider I was lapping managed to swing his back wheel out at 90 degrees as I passed, which took me out and let the two riders chasing me nip by. Never made it close enough back onto them to contest it.

Dig in at the Dock, Scotland’s most popular CX race, has just sold out all 180 spots in about 4 minutes. Wow!

21 Feb at Bo’ness, brilliant day out if you’re in the area.

North of Endland’s Sunday just gone, Bradford this weekend, NWCCA Sheepmount Carlisle Cancelled

pseudo file treads 😉

Who is at Hillingdon this weekend for Central league?anyone got any handy hints on course?? Thanks.

Finished 11/59 in a sticky grassy race of attrition. Was gridded right at the back, but things were sorted by end of second lap of four. I needed another lap to catch the tenth placed rider. But as my first race (and fourth ever) I was pleased. Will ride the remainder now I’m happy my wrist is better.

MC how did you get on?

There was a hillock coming out of one of the bunkers which was the A line, with the B line as the chicken run. The A line was definitely quicker and rolled you into the next section whereas you were pedalling all through the B.

John_l sorry I didn’t get the message before Hillingdon! I raced yes! I had a blinding start (I Was in the black and pink Ale skinsuit) … got up to 24 mph and dropped them all! Then got taken out early on (by a team mate) and 4 girls got a gap on. Having had 5 weeks off racing and 3 of those weeks enjoying life on holiday in Thailand it was a bit of a suffer fest after that! HR tells me I was working hard with an average of 188 and max of 196 and body feels battered today! I made some poor decision on run v walk so lost an additional space. ended up finishing 6th… disappointing as worst race of season! I did have a big gap on the women’s overall lead which is now going to come down to the last 3/4 races! I need to get the speed back into my legs which I had at the start of the season dam it! Muddy, lumpy, hard graft out there! Can’t say I was the biggest fan but maybe impaired by my poorer performance?

I’ve just had my first weekend without racing since October. Not sure what I’m going to do with myself now! I’d set a target of breaking into the top ten in the series and I finished 7th overall which included a DNF in one race and missing another because of a family holiday. So I think I’ll have to set myself a top 5 for next season . 😯 Some friends are organising a local race at the end of January which is part of a different race series but it’s unofficial so there is lots of secrecy surrounding it including on the day as everyone will only know the location of the meeting point and will have to ride in convoy to the race venue. They have over 200 starters already so not sure how they are going to manage it all without the authorities getting wind of it. Should be good!