This morning was the first round of the North Wales Cyclocross League and what a beauty of a morning it was. Clear skies, light winds and most importantly, warm. The league consists of 10 races going down over the next few months. The way it works is at each race you pick up points depending on where you place and at the end of the series your best 8 races count towards your final score! Cool.
The same kind of thing was run last year and I took part in a few, usually racing against 20-30 riders, however today there were around 50 which was great to see! Looks like cyclocross is taking off. So, after everyone had a few practise laps to work out where we had to go we all lined up at the start and were ready to roll...
Once the raced kicked off, we had to do a few laps around a flat field to string everyone out before we moved onto the real stuff. The course was great, pretty challenging, technical and it hurt, a lot. I can't really remember much of the race it was all a bit of a blur but I do know it hurt and that I finished 8th overall which I'm happy with. There were some seriously strong riders out there and the winner, Mat Prichard seemed to be going well as he lapped towards the end of the race! Nice one man.
Another thing pointed out by the race was that my bike is still creaking, it started sometime last week and seems to be coming from the right crank. I paid £20 to have everything around there taken out, greased and tightened up the other day... but the creaking continues, and it's the kind of noise that could drive any grown man mad. Mat from the bike shop joked that it might be too much power? Haha I don't think so, but it's definitely annoying me. I'll be taking it back down to Revolution Bikes to see what the deal is.
Nice one Barry Davies and
Revolution Bikes for putting together a great race, and also thanks to Gwynfor James of
Sports Pictures Cymru for taking some great shots. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
No comments:
Post a Comment