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Round up of the weeks action
Summer in the Park
The sun was shining and to our surprise their was not much wind around which meant the group rode a tight race with no attacks and only a couple of riders being dropped. The race finished with a sprint and H finished in 4th place
LVYCC round two of the Summer series.
Once again a field of 35 riders took to the road, the plan for Harrison to break with Owen didn’t work out for them. The bunch stayed tight until the final hill when Harrison put a great attack in to reach the top of the hill first his efforts soon went down as the other riders past him on the final down hill. Big congrats goes to the winner Liam Hanks from B&D team for his first win, a very strong rider showing great promise for the future. H held onto 5th place.
Beastway 2
Noah Charlton lead from the start with Harrison holding onto his wheel for a really good tight battle until 1/2 way round on the second lap when Noah broke away and held a gap to take victory. Good race for them both. CJ rode two laps and came 4th place overall.
Wednesday was the start of the Beastway mtb event run by SIP events.
L’il Beasts is for under 12s I was against a few riders from Team Darenth who I have only race on the road before now so wasn’t quite sure of my fellow riders strengths.
The race was two laps but about 10 minutes per lap. I had ridden the track a few times but not the course that was laid out today. The start was on the energy draining grass once on the main course It had lots of twists which I enjoyed. I led from the start and thought the chasing riders were right on my tail but my Dad said that on the first climb I made little distance once into the wooded section I began my attack.
I made more time, along the twists I was out on my own. The course was well laid out and marked. By my second lap I had around 1 minute on the chasing rides I dug in for the final lap to finish in first place.
This was my first opportunity to put some points in the bag after the Tunstall incident “The wrong way”. With my road commitments riding the Nationals the weekend of Codham I was looking forward Thetford and had been working on MTB training at the Club and was in fairly good shape, thank you Tony and the Guys at LVYCC coaching team.
Because of my poor result at Tunstall and missing a race I was called to the grid fairly late I managed to pick a spot next to my buddy William Davies. We were both one row back.
This course was around one and half miles long and plenty of open space to pass riders.
We were off, quite a messy start as William and I could get a clean line to the first bend, we were 5th and 6th position into the bend. I managed to pick off all of the riders to hit the front for the 1st lap along with Josun Cole.
We had a very slight lead on my LVYCC team mate Felix Mackie on lap one and William around 10 seconds back. By lap two Felix had made ground and was in the hunt for positions. As field spread out passing was made difficult and our lap times slowed down. Sadly Felix punctured on lap three and it was left to Josun and me to battle it out for 1st and 2nd place with us being equal on time on lap 3.
Both pushing hard disaster struck for me, a younger racer crashed in front of me this took me off the course and I crashed losing any chance of taking a the win.
Final positions
|
Pos |
Laps |
Time |
Time+ |
Name | Team/Sponsor |
Lap 1 |
Lap 2 |
Lap 3 |
Lap 4 |
|
1 |
4 |
00:22:40 |
Josun Cole | Iceni Velo – |
00:05:23 |
00:05:49 |
00:05:45 |
00:05:42 |
|
|
2 |
4 |
00:23:18 |
00:00:38 |
Harrison Powell | Lee Valley Youth Cycling Club – |
00:05:23 |
00:05:52 |
00:05:42 |
00:06:20 |
|
3 |
4 |
00:24:16 |
00:01:36 |
William Davies | Welwyn Whls CC – |
00:05:31 |
00:06:04 |
00:06:20 |
00:06:19 |
|
4 |
4 |
00:24:45 |
00:02:04 |
Josh Murad | Mildenhall CC – |
00:05:50 |
00:06:04 |
00:06:17 |
00:06:33 |
As always the event is really well run and thanks to the team at Mud Sweat and Gears and Timber for making such a great course.
This Sunday took us for a race in Norwich to give the NCA Spring Circuits Series a go!! Technically the most challenging road circuit / airport car park Harrison has ever ridden.
Race 1
Finding his feet or his race line, this was telling as the leaders started to put the pressure their cornering speed was second to none!! Harrison finished the race but was very down, he jumped onto his rollers to turn his legs. Quick chat and a drink and the next race was about to kick off.
Race 2
A good start to this race H stayed with the lead bunch and was happy to lead for a couple of laps, his straight line power kept him in the race but the tight twisty bends slowed him down he was jumped by the boys on the bell lap and finally finished in 5th place.
Other LVYCC news riders Georg J took third place in his first race and failed to grab any further points in his final race.
Matt Clements was having a great race until his chain snapped on the bell lap and he suffered a really hard crash which saw him taken to the local A&E. Fortunately Matt has not broken any bones but unfortunately he has lost a lot of skin and most of his kit at the airport car park, we wish you a speedy recovery Matt.
The event was well organised and thanks to the team at NCA for looking after us.
A windy cyclopark for the 2nd of the 10 events, all the cylinders were working this week. Harrison the only LVYCC rider to make it on the night, rode with a group of six riders who broke early from the main bunch. 
Lap three the action hotted up with Arron Freeman making a strong break to string out the group, H battled hard to chase down the second place rider who had managed to put some time between them he had left it a little to late to claim 2nd place and had to settle for 3rd place.
Tonight was the 1st of 8 races at cyclopark at gravesend. Harrison 1st lap was not good as he had a mechanical. With one lap out, he was allowed to continue the race. Tonight he was feeling the effects of an infection that he had earlier in the week and with two laps to go dropped back from the lead pack to finish the race without contesting.
No racing last weekend, so on Sunday Harrison 10 and Aaron Stone 11 complete a 50 mile bike ride in the Lee Valley Youth cycling club colours.
The ride was in aid of the Js hospice in Chelmsford Essex. The ride took them thought beautiful Essex countryside. Both boys got comments from a number of riders on route for calling cars / pot holes and their bike handling skills.
Quite funny at the end when the kind lady from the Hospice thanked them for doing the ride and asked them if they had done the 15 or 35 mile ride for them to both reply at the same time no the 50, her face was a picture of disbelief.
Well done to the Js Hospice for putting on a good event!
Cat C under 12s at Hog Hill for the first of the Summer series. With 49 riders on the start sheet it was going to be a test for each and every rider who pinned a number on, with the long climb every lap this is not the norm for this category. 1st lap a large bunch of around 20 riders formed they climbed well with fresh legs.
Whilst they made it into the centre area together, on lap one an early attack saw the field break up and a group of seven riders formed 6 boys and one girl this group stayed together for the remainder of the race with the strong Girl dropping back a little on lap 4. On the bell there was a massive attack on the front group and four of the six boys went clear down the hill. Aaron Freeman and Harrison had some traffic on the decent and both played it safe which was the right thing to do.
This for me was one of the best races of the early season with the break forming early to take the race to a whole new level, with the riders providing attacks and great climbing it was a joy to watch.
The four leading riders battled hard for the points which went to:
1. Alexi Edwards
2. Thomas Gloag
3. Noah Charlton
4. Owen Williams
5. Aaron Freeman
6. Harrison Powell
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