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Westerley CC Spring Criteriums-Hillindon 13/4/2013
Today we (Luke, Anthony, Cameron, Theo and I) had a ¾ cat race at Hillingdon. A great turn out for cca!
It was a good field with 86 riders in this race, at times it was a bit sketchy, but thats racing and in a big pack I was trying to stay at the front by using my bunch skills and not wasting any energy but making an effort up the outside pushing air wasting valuable energy.
Attacks kept pinging off the front, but no one stayed away. This is quite normal for a ¾ race at Hillingdon. I kept in the bunch for a bunch sprint, Theo was on the front for a large majority of the race chasing down the breaks which we werent in and cam going for the selected breaks which he though would stick by having a sense of their form. Sadly this being a ¾ race no one is really committed (apart from us obviously!). I was trying to work with my asthma in the race so whenever I got a slight twinge in my chest then I took a puff. This helped massively, I was able to stay in contention.
It was towards the end of the race, I heard someones dad shout 5laps to go move up so I moved up on someones wheel then I found Theos wheel. I stuck with him right up until the space was no longer there. Now I just moved up using someone else to push the wind out of the way.
1 lap to go the pace ramps up massively breaks are pinging off the front, they got brought back more or less straight away. It was a bunch sprint what I hoped as I didnt feel like I had the legs to get in a break once the race had started-the plan was that I was going to get in a break.
The results Anthony finished definetly in the top ten. We think theo finished 10th, cam and I finished in the top 20 but not really sure where and luke closely behind.
It was a good field with 86 riders in this race, at times it was a bit sketchy, but thats racing and in a big pack I was trying to stay at the front by using my bunch skills and not wasting any energy but making an effort up the outside pushing air wasting valuable energy.
Attacks kept pinging off the front, but no one stayed away. This is quite normal for a ¾ race at Hillingdon. I kept in the bunch for a bunch sprint, Theo was on the front for a large majority of the race chasing down the breaks which we werent in and cam going for the selected breaks which he though would stick by having a sense of their form. Sadly this being a ¾ race no one is really committed (apart from us obviously!). I was trying to work with my asthma in the race so whenever I got a slight twinge in my chest then I took a puff. This helped massively, I was able to stay in contention.
It was towards the end of the race, I heard someones dad shout 5laps to go move up so I moved up on someones wheel then I found Theos wheel. I stuck with him right up until the space was no longer there. Now I just moved up using someone else to push the wind out of the way.
1 lap to go the pace ramps up massively breaks are pinging off the front, they got brought back more or less straight away. It was a bunch sprint what I hoped as I didnt feel like I had the legs to get in a break once the race had started-the plan was that I was going to get in a break.
The results Anthony finished definetly in the top ten. We think theo finished 10th, cam and I finished in the top 20 but not really sure where and luke closely behind.
Comments
Well done to all at Hillingdon today.
Mark F
Cheers for the support as well today. I'll be back for more!!
I didn't expect it to be that quick at Cat 4 from what people had said?
5 Anthony Morris CC Ashwell
10 Theo Doncaster CC Ashwell
16 Cameron Woolsey CC Ashwell
37 Jon Chapman CC Ashwell
57 Luke Danckert CC Ashwell