Crystal Palace Crits #5 - 4th June '13

[Matt W]

Third race at Palace, the week before was cancelled due to the rain.
Better luck this time round though as we had a lovely sunny evening, a warm 18 degrees! Clockwise again because of the wind.

I cycled over again this week, but I didn't refuel or stretch after so I wasn't feeling brilliant.
During my short warm up and the beginning of the race I noticed some strong looking cyclists. I just stuck in their wheel!

During the race we had a few people trying to break away, nothing big. I was shocked when I looked back. I was a lone ranger about 10 meters ahead! I was at the front doing my turn at the front, pushing about 80% but once again it was the corners that gave me distance. I didn't brake, looked behind me, and they were gone. Two looked as though they were sprinting to catch me! I eased off though knowing we still had about 7 laps to go; I didn't fancy doing that all on my own!! I smiled to myself knowing I had wasted their energy though

I was near the front the rest of the race. The final lap was quite slow though going through the bell. It ended up being a sprint.
I was four back when we went round the final bend. I was going to try what I did last time (go around the outside) but I went to wide I was pleased with my sprint though. I managed to close the gap I had made and got into third. I was coming up behind first and second with quite a bit of speed, but I don't think I got second. I pushed my bike forward at the last second so it was very close!
If only I hadn't gone wide I could of got my first win!
It's only my 3rd race though (I don't count cyclopark because I had no idea what I was doing) so I'm still learning!

[size=120]Crystal Palace Criteriums - 4th June 2013 - U16's [/size]

1 Aidan Woolven Sutton CC/De Ver
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3 Matthew Webber Addiscombe CC

[url]https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/85588/Crystal-Palace-Crits-5#results[/url]

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[size=150]Final Sprint[/size]

[Alan M]

Well done Matt

[Andrew G]

Excellent Matt . Really enjoying reading your tales as you start out on your racing journey.

[Roy Green]

Ditto here - good ride, Matt!

[Ghaleb]

Doing really well...keep it up Matt

[simon Lythgoe]

congrats on 3rd! a nice race report

[Jon C C on a Bianchi]

Well done, Matt!!! Go Addiscombe!!! Go!!! Allez! Allez! Allez! Next time don't wait for the sprint! It gives them a chance. Go from a long way out. Try a long one!

[Phil H]

It's not about whether you win or lose - it's about whether you beat the VCL kids.

Class. And with another year to go in U16 too. Tom showed me your Strava data and I was impressed.

Assuming it's not raining next week (it seems to rain on Tuesday's when Tom's not doing evening 10s) then we'll be up there.

[katie]

That's brilliant Matt, well done
Loving the write ups too

[Keith]

Well done Matt.

[Matt W]

Thanks everyone, the resuts are already out on the Crystal Palace Crits website:

[size=120]Crystal Palace Criteriums - 4th June 2013 - U16's [/size]

1 Aidan Woolven Sutton CC/De Ver
...
3 Matthew Webber Addiscombe CC


I'm 1st overall on points though!!
http://crystalpalacecrits.wix.com/home#!standings/c1yws

[Jon C C on a Bianchi]

[quote="Matt W"]Thanks everyone, the resuts are already out on the Crystal Palace Crits website:

[size=120]Crystal Palace Criteriums - 4th June 2013 - U16's [/size]

1 Aidan Woolven Sutton CC/De Ver
...
3 Matthew Webber Addiscombe CC


I'm 1st overall on points though!!
http://crystalpalacecrits.wix.com/home#!standings/c1yws

[Ant]

Well done indeed, Matt!

[Toks]

So, you've now raced twice at London's hardest crit circuit and its resulted in a poduim finishes both time . I think your gonna be good pretty good at this bike racing thing. Great Job Matt

[Marek]

Excellent stuff, keep it up, I thought you looked pretty handy when we sprinted for Charlwood a few weeks ago.

Cheers

Marek....