Having previously entered road races just for a bit of speed training between MTB XC or multi-sport events, my usual approach has been attack, attack, attack, die, get dropped. At least this had been my excuse for not ever having accumulated even a single point on my BCF road licence. This season has been different[…]
This September sees the first, in what we hope will become, a series of races Supported by us. We have teamed up with New Forest CC to put on a 10 mile time trial round the New Forest on Saturday 28th September 2013. Event Details: The Bournemouth Cycleworks Time Trial Organiser: Martin Balk, 26 The Brackens,[…]
Two weeks after Reading and the recovery and training is still going well. The legs feel good, probably due to an easier stretch in the A&E rota! Competing in the middle distance (70.3) is probably not high on ones list of priorities only 3 weeks from the Olympic distance world champs. Although the distance is[…]
With the sun making an appearance this weekend it meant only one thing a dry and dusty race which everyone enjoys, and did it ever show with over 250 riders it was by far the biggest push up race I’ve ever competed in. The track stared with a flat out sprint into a table top[…]
It was Round 3 of the Woodland Riders Winter Series at Tavistock and after taking the overall win at the last round I could not wait! After a super early start on the Sunday morning we drove through just about every possible type of weather on our journey down to Devon. We arrived to the[…]
Us band of merry volunteer shovel jockeys at QECP, known as the QECP Collective, will be hosting our own gravity enduro race on 21st July 2013! It is sure to be a banger with prizes including a holiday for two with Pure Mountains in Spain’s Sierra Nevada(http://www.puremountains.com/ ), a pair of Marzocchi forks, Dainese pads, Exempt[…]
In preparation for the Auckland World Championships, I figured I should probably compete in another Olympic distance triathlon, considering the qualifying race in Shropshire was the first one I had ever done! With the triathlon season well under way and the majority of popular races full up, I was lucky to get a slot in[…]
After the previous weekends tight racing at Forest of Dean, This weekend race at Aston Hill was set to be quite a lot different because it was on a track that couldn’t get much different to the jumpy, smooth, pedally course at FoD. The track Started of with a very short flattish sprint into a[…]
The 17th of feb saw the second round of the 2013 woodland riders winter series. On arrival we first set off for a track walk. The start of the track was new, dew to there being recent forestry work, which consisted five open flat corner which hadn’t even been ridden yet so we all new[…]
I came into this round full of confidence from winning southern champs, even though I couldn’t take the south west champ title I still wanted do win. This track that was used for this race was the newest track at Gawton “proper Job” which took 2 years to build. This take was wide and fast[…]
Round 6 of the halo BDS was held Llangollen a well know venue to all british riders, renowned for its steep and unforgiving terrain I came into this even with slight caution but with excitement too. Leaving late friday night meant we had little sleep due to the fact that we had to get up[…]
Last weekend saw the 3rd and final round of the DTV summer series at Forest of Dean. The race was to take place on the newly built jumpy track, which consisted purely of big jumps and berms and lots of pedalling! After riding the track briefly on the way back from the BDS at Bringewood,[…]