I got up on sunday and the first thing I noticed was that it was not raining. The route for the day went up into the Beacons took in two more 5km climbs and then back to Newport Velodrome. As the group set off there was a more positive atmosphere than the day before as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After having a nightmare of a drive to Wales (traffic on the M4), everyone was a bit tired when we met for breakfast at eight. The hills loomed out of the drizzle and there was a feeling of lack of motivation. Breakfast inside us we set off and immediately began to climb. The drizzle was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today was the day that I am supposed to do cross training. This entails anything but cycling so this time round I decided to go for a run. Usually at school there is a good mix of runners all of which are welcoming and helpful. Today, however, was a different matter. Hardly anyone turned up […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This Saturday the Welwyn Wheelers Academy set out from Whipsnade for a long training run in the Chilterns. For those of you who do not know the Chilterns they are a lumpy area of England roughly to the west of London. The hills are short enough that the people who originally built the roads did […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Down to the depths of Colchester our car drove. Mistley is right on the coast, situated on a small forested hill that would prove a hard and technically challenging course. The surface was loose with lots of “off camber corners” (just like I had practised) with long sharp rises and steep, bumpy descents. As with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is always a technical session with each and every Cyclocross specific skill being tested. This time we practised off camber corners which may not sound too hard but has quite a lot of handling involved in navigating them. For example with a steeply off camber corner, the more the cyclist can position their weight […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I told you about my new cross bike in the last post and this weekend was when I decided to put it to the test. The course at Davey Downs is a flat and fast one with a minor bump and two sets of steps. Keen not to repeat my fall in training I practised the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My recent project with my Dad has been building a cyclocross bike for Winter training. It’s a Cube frame and Ritchey Carbon forks adorned with whatever spares parts we could find in the shed. Its first proper outing was this evening at my local cylcocross training. The evening started with a running warm up (which […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I am not racing at the moment (enjoying a couple of weeks off) but Daniel, my younger brother, has just started his cyclocross season. I think there is a big following of the sport in America but I can assure you it is just as well supported here. Daniel got a crummy start from the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The whole team was finally bike checked. As per usual the UCI testing jig (four pieces of iron arranged) caused problems for all the teams riding the team pursuit. My bike was too long so I had to apply for morphological exemption. It always makes me feel good when I am too tall for their rules. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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