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May 4, 2010

Hi all

I have just been for a spin around the race course for Friday we are only doing 87k over 7 laps which 1s only 12.4k laps but it seems to take for ever to get around so either the distance is wrong or the course is harder than it looks, but it’s the same for everyone. The weather is holding up at the moment, but there is still snow and rain forecast for tomorrow, but we will see what happens.

The course it self is very rolling with a big gear up hill finish. I can just about get up there at 40kph mid bloke. There are a couple of other longer climbs around the course and also some fast descents, but saying that it is a big gear race. Should be good if the weather stays try otherwise it will just be safe and pick up places as others fall off. Not sure what to do tomorrow there is a possibility of a crit but only if its dry in the evening so it is either sit around and do nothing all day and hope it is on or ride down to the tt course.

Simon

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Results

May 4, 2010

These are the top ten results for my class

Stage 1 11k down and up TT

1º 82 ESP19791215 NEIRA, Cesar 4 SEL. ESPAÑOLA 0:18:03

2º 93 USA19790420 KAVANAGH, Samuel 4 U.S.Paralympics 0:18:24

3º 91 NOR19840312 JAHR, Morten 4 Norway 0:18:33

4º 46 COL19900517 DUEÑAS, Diego G. 4 Colombia 0:18:35

5º 45 COL19670207 GAHONA, Luis E. 4 Colombia 0:18:36

6º 86 ITA19720523 MCKEOWN, Shaun 4 Great Britain 0:19:05

7º 85 GBR19661110 RICHARDSON, Simon 4 Great Britain 0:19:18

8º 44 BEL19710704...
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Mondy 03/05

May 3, 2010
We had a big storm here last night so much so that when we had the flash of lightning the plug sockets were glowing.

 I was meant to be riding from Spain to France today but a change in the weather and also I have just found out that we could be doing a ablebody crit on Wednesday night so need to hold back on the long ride and no one else is doing the long ride so it would be 110+miles all by myself. Not sure what time we are leaving so will try and get a 3h ride in later.

simon
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Road Race

May 2, 2010

Today’s road race was wet and very slippery. We started late as normal and the race started from the gun as we did not have a neutralized zone as we normally do with in the first 1k we had shed a load of riders and there were group spread out behind us. Russ attacked straight away as he normally did I just sat in the pack watching the Spanish pull him back. Once he was back with us more attacks came but these were soon pulled back. The start finish is now on a cobbled surface so first tim...
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TT day

May 2, 2010

Hi All

I did 2 TT’s today in Spain one I hate the other one I loved.

The morning TT was about 11k which started with an uphill start for about 1k then went down hill for 5k were we turned and climbed for 5k and then it was a 1k decent to the finish. Not a course that I am any good at. I can get up the climbs and I can get up them at race pace but as I am 78kilos I am a bit heavy to keep up with the mountain goats and also it was wet so I took it easy on the way down as I wanted to live ...
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30th April Spain

April 30, 2010

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I am sitting in a hotel room again in Spain after just going to see the first of two TT courses we are doing tomorrow. We were told it was flat but after seeing it and riding it one thing I can say is it is not rolling it is 5K down hill turn at the bottom and its then 5k back up the hill. So it is now going to be road bike and if it rains as it is meant to it will be aluminium rims as well.

After doing the hill twice it was not as bad as it looked I did a small test on it and was...
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The good and the bad

April 27, 2010
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Well that was not a good weekend in the lakes.
Saturday was good I had a nice easy morning with a good breakfast with some nice people in the bed and breakfast. After that I went for a ride around the course, the sun was out it was warm and all was good. I took it easy for the first lap to try and work out what the course was like apart from the bad road surface in places it was very good fast road. I did the second lap at 80% with a couple of efforts on the small hills and I was very p...
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Bad Drive

April 24, 2010
Hi
Well that was a horrible drive up to the Lakes yesterday roadworks eveywhere, with lots of people who cannot drive. The Bed and Breakfast we are in is realy nice and like a home from home. I am going out for a spin around the Lakes later to check out the course as they had a lot of flood damage in this area.

simon

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Jif Thursday Ride

April 23, 2010
Hi

It was a nice hard ride today. About 18 of us met up in the Castell Coffee Shop. Its a normal start with us riding in a 2 bike line. We headed up towards Powerstation hill we come up the main road not up the big hill. From there it a steady 20 to 25mph ride over towards Ogmore we do go a bit faster I know at one time we were doing 35mph+ in a nice string when Mat and me were on the front. When we get to Ogmore the ride splits in to two groups the fast ride goes around the coast when the oth...
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nice ride

April 21, 2010

Hi all

Had a nice 3 hours in the sun today. Just going around the lanes by myself.

Tomorrow will be different I am meeting JIF in Cardiff for their hard ride. It normally stays together for the first 1h30min then we split and the ride just gets faster and faster. Hard but great fun.

Off up to the lakes on Friday for the next round of the Rudy Project I  like the course up there. I will do a full report on the race

Simon


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