Are ya brave enough? Well are ya...?

[Antloony]

Thanks Huw and Marco for the encouragment. Thats it, time to step up to a faster group then. I'll think nothing of going out on my own and doing 50 miles at a 20mph average pace, just worried I'll be dropped by the fast group when the pace picks up. I was planning to try my hand at a couple of TT's so will stick with that and also try to get my rear end over to Hillingdon and have a thrash round there. Just waiting for the test results back from the quacks today after my scare on wedenesday. Looks like it was a case of hematuria, brought on after over doing it a little over the past week and not drinking enough.

[Daniel Gee]

Dude if u can manage 50 miles @ 20mph by yourself on a road bike you'll probably be shocked at how slow 4th cat racing is and I doubt you'll be dropped by the training group; well any more than anyone else is.

Get racing immediately!

Hope all is well with the doctor, I tend to get ill myeslf if I drink less than about 4/5 bottles of scotch in a week

[-Adam-]

[quote="Daniel Gee"]if u can manage 50 miles @ 20mph by yourself on a road bike

[Sylv]

you'll be even faster with my dura ace front mech - shall I bring it tomorrow (club run)?

[Antloony]

[quote="Sylv"]you'll be even faster with my dura ace front mech - shall I bring it tomorrow (club run)?

[Andrew G]

Glad you're better. Having ridden with you a few times lately on some tough routes you'd be easily able to start racing. Should be very comfy in a 4th cat race at Hillingdon from what I've heard, and you'd probably be fine at Palace. The first few races are a shock with the speed straight away if you've only done club runs, and also the actual racing rather than just riding in a group, but after a couple you're at least ready for it to happen that way.

Plenty of ACC do Palace so you'd be assured of company from others in the club. At Palace if you can try and follow Kieran's wheel you'll learn a lot very quickly about how to race and where to be.

[Antloony]

Cheers Andrew, would be great to go, even better to go with some of the ACC guys and see how its done and get an idea of tatics etc and how it all works.

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

[quote]Quite a lardy 76kilos at the moment due to lack of miles out there on the bike. Racing weight, and therefore target is 70Kg. Have been steadily shedding pounds since Christmas and should reach target by May 11.

[quote="mrP(Boonen)VT"][quote]Quite a lardy 76kilos at the moment due to lack of miles out there on the bike. Racing weight, and therefore target is 70Kg. Have been steadily shedding pounds since Christmas and should reach target by May 11.

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

[quote]Still quite a bit for a short arse like yourself Paul

[-Adam-]

Well my bike lost a couple of kilo's yesterday morning!

[huw williams]

[quote="-Adam-"]Well my bike lost a couple of kilo's yesterday morning!

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

I think I'll stick to more conventional methods

[Sylv]

Been looking at the weight of some Expert/Elite mtb racers, wow there really are some leightweights there.

I'm slightly over 60kg for 1m68 would like to get down to 58

HEIGHT: 1m 88cm
WEIGHT: 68kg

HEIGHT: 1m 85cm
WEIGHT: 64kg

HEIGHT: 1m 85cm
WEIGHT: 69-72kg

HEIGHT: 1m 85cm
WEIGHT: 65kg

HEIGHT: 1m 83cm
WEIGHT: 67kg

HEIGHT: 1m 83cm
WEIGHT: 65kg

HEIGHT: 1m 81cm
WEIGHT: 75kg

HEIGHT: 1m 80cm
WEIGHT: 70kg

HEIGHT: 1m 78cm
WEIGHT: 64kg

HEIGHT: 1m 75cm
WEIGHT: 63kg

HEIGHT: 1m 71cm
WEIGHT: 66kg

HEIGHT: 1m 68cm
WEIGHT: 63kg

http://www.britishnps.co.uk/racerprofiles.htm

[Rob C]

If you fancy it there is a beginners race at Chertsey on Sunday, starts at 10am