Well, what a busy 3 days I have just had with the Tom Simpson Junior National Series road race on sunday, Reading Track League on Monday and The E123's at Hillingdon on Tuesday.
Sunday was a hard race with all the top Juniors in the country travelling to Yorkshire. The Race was 65 Miles long on a relatively flat/rolling circuit with a bit of a climb before the line. The circuit suited me down to the ground. It was easy enough to maintain a quick speed through out with some nice corners to kick out of and then an uphill drag to finish off. A break formed rather quickly with some top riders.
Josh Edmundson (Motorpoint Marshalls Pasta) pushed the pace from the start, breaking away on the very first lap and building up a lead of 20 seconds. He was pursued for nearly two laps by six chasing riders but only Conor Dunne (Glendene CC), Jake Barrett (Stirling Bike Club) and Andy Hargroves (Hargoroves Cycles) bridged the gap to the leader. The leading group increased their lead to 40 seconds with the chasing riders being realed back by the peloton.
The riders in the peloton didn't let the leaders get too far ahead though with Joe Kelly (Team Isle of Man) and Simon Yates (Maxgear RT) giving chase, closely followed by Charlie Fawke (Onelife Cycling Develpment Squad), eventually bridging the gap to the leaders on the fourth lap. http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/road/article/roa20100620-Report--Bikeline-Tom-Simpson-Junior-RR-0
The race all came back together in the end and with 1K to go i crashed out as people came down in front of me went down due to touching wheel whilst trying to get a decent spot for the sprint. I managed to fly about a metre and a half upwards then bounced of the curb then into the stinging nettles.
Monday Night at Reading was always going to be challenging with such a hard race the day before. I rode relatively well over the night improving my track experience and performing better than the week before. My best Result was 1st in the Unknown distance in the A League which im pretty happy with considering i hardly ever do track.
Tuseday at Hillingdon, Feeling pretty shabby but the race was flying for 80 minutes at a rapid pace of 26.6mph as an average. then 4 got away and i couldnt go with it and in the Bunch sprint i got 6th giving me 10th Position overall but i was the 1st -3rd cat winning me £25 so had a bit of a result there
im feeling like the form is getting here, i have a national sunday and the ras de cymru next week.
