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Race Report: Surrey League Kermesse - Don't Give Up!

When you turn up to a race and find out that the race before yours on the same circuit had 25 punctures, it doesn't bode well. When your...

Today Sam and I travelled to Bletchingly in Surrey for my second Surrey League road race this season. It would be fair to say it was a hot a...

Yesterday I travelled to Leigh in Surrey to do the Redhill E.1.2 road race. I knew it was going to be tough. It was. I was the only Wightlin...

This afternoon we were back in Winchester for the second Omega circuits Criterium race at the Winchester Park and Ride. I came away with a s...

This afternoon the Wightlink-LCM Systems race team travelled to a car park in Winchester to race... Yes, we literally were racing round the ...

I travelled to Loughborough this morning to take part in a 54 mile road race run by Loughborough Uni on the same course as the BUCS road rac...

If you live in the South of England and looked out the window yesterday evening, you'd probably think that that you would be mad to get ...

I was told that Milland Hill was a tough circuit, nothing quite prepared me for the 25 percent gradient though, nor for the fact that we had...

Follow every move and one of them had better work. That was the motto I adopted in today's race over at the Portsmouth Mountbatten track...

My first race of 2013 was at the Portsmouth Mountbatten track; Elite, 1st and 2nd Cat. racing in torrential rain, strong winds and freezing ...

Thanks to Jack Elton-Walters, one of my team mates from the Isle of Wight, who has put together this fantastic post to mark the launch of th...

Last week I gave a summary of my " 2012 Season Objectives: What did I tick off? ", it's now time to look forward to 2013 and s...

Perplexed, annoyed and relieved. Those three words seem rather juxtaposed, but that’s kind of how I felt about my result from Saturday’s BUC...

We travelled up to Wiltshire yesterday to take part in the Cricklade Kermesse, and it proved to be one beast of a race. 15 laps of a fast ci...

It's been a long time coming, but last night saw me take another top podium spot at Portsmouth Track during a hard but rewarding race. I...

Good race last night, just glad I made the start line, as I've started work down at the sailing club now and it makes getting over to Po...

After last week's horrific DQ I was back to try and take revenge at Pompey track on Wednesday evening, in what proved to be an interesti...

First road race in a while last night - over in the New Forest for the Sotonia CC Heath Race. A good field of 40 riders, a reasonably strong...

Think I've calmed down enough now to write a blog on Wednesday's race. Which was possibly one of the most gutting experiences of my ...

Today I took part in my first real road race (rather than closed-circuit racing) - The Thames Velo Spring Road Race in Oxfordshire. It was a...