Report from Dave Goodhew:

Round 2 Team MK at MK bowl

Tim Bailey had a good raced and hammered past many riders on the steep bowl climbs to make 20^th place in the vet 40 cat which had a huge 72 riders finishing, only a front wheel change may have cost him places. Adriana had to learn as she went on the off camber turns all over the bowl edges, came in 8^th and very tired. Well done to both.

Round 3 of the central league in Hemel Hempstead. 11 October 2015

Myself still not ready (after a spill) and Tim otherwise busy with work meant that Adriana was the only NBRC rider. We were greeted by sunshine and slightly chilly lunchtime conditions. I had to ring Leigh Smith before he arrived to warn him of the huge hill in this course and instil some dread in him after he sportingly decided to support the NBRC hill climb earlier in the day. Course was large, tough but not especially technical, suited to Adriana as she is still improving on more technical terrain and probably in good fitness after two hard races in the tank.

I decided to stay on the top part of the course and shout encouragement at Adriana, she rode smoothly and kept Oli Lacigova of Tri Sports in eighth moving up to seventh place this time. Strava confirms average HR of 172 this is completely at threshold for 40 minutes!

I can testify that this was a hard fought race.

http://centralcxl.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/HHCC-Womens-Results.pdf

http://centralcxl.org.uk/calendar-201516/

Next week is at MK bowl hosted by CC Luton