BWAY#8

[Dr Frigo]

# 9 actually

Carnage! Joel rode into a bush and almost into the canal overtaking someone, bending his brake lever. Wal tore a massive hole in his jersey coming off. He also snapped his sunglasses and teared his saddle, but that was before the race even started. I was leading until the second lap, when I came off in a grassy turn. Had way too much air in my tires and not much grip. Came off again soon after, and for the rest of the race was paranoid about crashing again. Managed to overtake back some people who had passed me, but came third I think. Lost my computer on the course (found it afterwards) and snapped a bit off my brakes. Behind me in the sprint to the finish line there was another crash when two guys locked bars. We all had various degrees of "off-road rash" afterwards. The heat was tough too and I ran out of drink well before the end.

[url=http://www.sportingchampions.org.uk/champions_profile.php?champion_id=39]Jenny Copnall[/url], fresh from winning the National title once again at the weekend, and who did her first ever race at Beastway, was there and I thought she was going to race with the Masters men as she usually does - was wondering if I could keep up with her. But she was "guest starter" for the men's race, and rode with the women at a later start time, after presenting John with a signed race jersey.

Was annoyed with myself for overinflating my tires (like Huw the heat didn't help I think), but "sh*t happens" as says the hilarious [url=http://adamcraig.net]Adam Craig[/url] (US pro). At least we were on our bikes and having fun.

[Dr Frigo]

[img]http://www.londoncyclesport.com/pics_2006_reports/beast9.jpg[/img]

[Dr Frigo]

Masters men
pos/race pos/cat/no/name/team/time/laps
1 6 mam 83 David Reekie 00:56:53 5 laps
2 7 mam 376 Richard John Trek UK 00:56:55 5 laps
3 8 mam 36 Sylvain Garde Addiscombe CC 00:57:09 5 laps
4 10 mam 64 Petr Vasek 00:57:42 5 laps
5 11 mam 77 Tony Vickers Cycle Surgery 00:57:44 5 laps
6 12 mam 59 Alex Christians Blackheath CC 00:58:03 5 laps
7 13 mam 163 Andrew Snell 00:58:06 5 laps
8 15 mam 202 Mattias Kunz 00:58:10 5 laps
9 17 mam 237 Andrew Lewis Ellswoth Freeborn 00:58:30 5 laps
10 18 mam 473 Michael Wallace Addiscombe 00:58:42 5 laps
11 19 mam 87 Paul Wilson Freeborn Ellsworth 00:58:53 5 laps
12 20 mam 457 Kevan White 00:58:58 5 laps
13 21 mam 188 Joel Kirkwood 00:59:04 5 laps


Single speed men
pos/race pos/cat/no/name/team/time/laps
1 16 ssm 373 Graham Pentney Mad Cow Racing 00:56:48 5 laps
2 34 ssm 27 Simon Day Addiscombe CC 01:00:47 5 laps
3 42 ssm 16 Andrew McMillan Chelmer Cycles 01:02:18 5 laps
4 43 ssm 108 Paul Warner Team Darenth 01:02:28 5 laps
5 49 ssm 49 Robert Evans Robert Evans 01:03:07 5 laps
6 63 ssm 216 Nick Freilich woburncrankers.com 01:04:37 5 laps
7 75 ssm 109 Kurt Warner Team Darenth 00:52:25 4 laps
9 88 ssm 476 James Hall 00:54:04 4 laps
10 96 ssm 410 Mark Henderson Cyclone Cycles 00:55:32 4 laps
11 97 ssm 296 Peter Owen 00:55:36 4 laps

[Wal]

Mike Wallace is me - clue is that it says 'Addiscombe' next to my name in the results . In the pic I'm in the (soon to be shredded) grey top behind Sylvain.

[Dr Frigo]

D'oh - did only a search for "Mike" ... have edited my post above.

Decent result for the first race in ages + a crash eh.

I saw John taking the picture of Jenny and knew it would be published so made an effort to look happy

[Dr Frigo]

Here's a video of a practise lap last week, thanks to Monty's helmet cam:

http://www.dailymotion.com/acc-monty/video/363633

I don't think I'll be doing Hillingdon next Tuesday!

[Wal]

[quote]Decent result for the first race in ages + a crash eh.