18/7: Palace Crits; 3/4/W

[Toks]

1 Erick Rowsell Corridori
2 Quentin Tring Brixton Cycles @ 3 secs
3 Thomas Berman Team Economic Energy @ 10 secs
4 Max McCalla VC Londres
5 Nathan Harmon VC St Raphael @ 15 secs
6 George Roux Redhill CC
7 Fraser Wildman Downland Cycles
8 Roger Molinari Team Economic Energy
9 Toks Adesanya Addiscombe CC
10 Matt Zeitz Sutton CC/De Ver
11 Jack Chisholm Addiscombe CC
12 Kieran Brennan Addiscombe CC

Not bad, no high placings but we were 2nd in the team battle last night. We beat Dulwich and London Dynamo both of whom, especially in the case of Dulwich, had more racers than us. The Economic Energy boys were very strong but we'll get them next time. A full report to follow hopefully

[kieran]

Well, great night, sadly for Toks the results do not always reflect the work put in for the majority of the race, if it did Toks would be the winner (of course I'm not biased) as once again he acted as pace setter and lead out man for the sprint. Me thinks he should sit in the bunch and just go near the end, it's what that young guy did last time when he went off the front. Still it was a good race and I think we would have gotten better results if we hadn't caught up with some of the E/1/2 guys near the finish line which certainly slowed down my sprint as they moved over to the right to let us through and I was coming up on the right! Anyway would only have made a little difference. Boring stats - the race was an average of 23.5mph, my average bpm was about 164 (going down with each race - indication of getting fitter? - maybe try to do a turn on front next time??), although once racing it didn't go below 160 at all, but maxed at 194bpm which is bascially 99% of my max HR (196). The effort varies alot, looking at my data (hr - bpm, speed) it looks like the teeth of a saw. Only one crash, which involved the eventual winner so chapeau to him, the crash happened as the bunch were trying to move out of the way for the leading break away of E/1/2s to pass us. See you all there again next week hopefully and then off on my holidays to France for 3 weeks!!! (must try to keep some of my form going). Oh and well done to the hillingdon victors!!