The Bath Road Club Junior National, which is nowhere near Bath but in fact near Aylesbury. The course was rolling, and I remember enjoying it a lot last year, however the road surface had somehow got even worse. As the racing started, I was feeling good and positioning myself well in the bunch, but afterContinue reading “Bath and Junior Track Nationals”
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A Weekend in Belgium
The end of exams and time for a weekend away with the team, with a very early start getting up at 5am on the Saturday for the morning tunnel to Calais. Upon arrival we worked out the course by following some random people with numbers on, as there was no course info anywhere, and thenContinue reading “A Weekend in Belgium”
The Rock
It’s always nice racing and riding in the Isle of Man: good roads, good friends, good racing. For this year’s race we travelled up on the Thursday night taking the 7pm ferry from Liverpool which would get us to our accommodation for 11pm. Once on the ferry we met up with Theo Anderson and OllieContinue reading “The Rock”
Track League and Training
It was a while before my next major race, and my first road race of the season, on April 1st for the Nat B in Goodwood. In this time, I did training rides with local, and not so local friends as well as getting too Odd Down for a round of the winter series andContinue reading “Track League and Training”
Senior Track Nationals
Photo credit – @carldowningphotography On Thursday we travelled up to Newport for the 4km individual pursuit qualification, my first race of this year’s championship. Being my local velodrome, it felt familiar and relaxed, however one thing was clear, the track was very cold. I prepared my bike with the correct gear and put both frontContinue reading “Senior Track Nationals”
June
National Endurance League Round After this it was back to Newport for a round of the National Endurance League to get some track time as we start to approach Junior Track Nationals. With some big names scheduled to appear I went for a good workout and track time. I was pleased with some top tenContinue reading “June”
May
Isle of Man At the end of April it was into a block of Y12 Mocks with Maths on Monday, Biology on Wednesday and Physics moved to the Thursday morning so that we could make the ferry. Initially I hadn’t even planned on doing Isle of Man because of the amount of travel, however anContinue reading “May”
April
Senior National Omnium Champs After the disappointment of a DNS, It was back to the track for the Senior National Omnium Championships in Derby, armed with a much bigger gear and some more experience racing professionals, I was hopeful that I’d manage to qualify for the Omnium final. The qualifying race was a 60 lapContinue reading “April”
March
Senior National Track Champs After a hard winter’s training in preparation, my first major race of the season had arrived – the Points race at the Senior National Track Championships. With sign on closing at 8:30, it meant almost a 5am start to the day and a long wait until qualification. The bike was setContinue reading “March”
Winter Training
I thought I would recap what I’ve got up to with my winter training and what the start of the season will look like for me. A significant amount of my winter training has been on the track, at Derny sessions, Track League and various other sessions. The goal for track league has been toContinue reading “Winter Training”
Tom Adby 