Just to demonstrate that these do still exist, here is the first report of the new season:
"The Wheelers Chris Higgs secured further recognition for her outstanding season last year when she was presented with a special award by Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy and Team Sky supremo Dave Brailsford at the annual British Cycling Awards luncheon at the Midland Hotel in Manchester recently.
Higgs has continued to dominate events at the Manchester velodrome despite suffering a nasty crash a few weeks ago which left her unable to ride for several days. On Friday night she won the points race, attacking after the second sprint and forming a break with two other riders and took second place in the 16 Lap race. John Jackson, Roger Wrenn and Chris Quin were also in good form. In the 1 kilometre events Jackson was 2nd in his race, with Wrenn and Quin taking third and fourth place in their event. Quin then went on to win the points race by out sprinting Wrenn on the last lap. Jackson won the” Devil take the Hindmost” by attacking early and staying away..
After winning the North West Cyclo Cross league in his first season back in the sport, Paul Bethell has continued his run of good results. He took sixth place in the final round of the Notts and Derby Cyclo cross league at Bakewell and then in his last race of the current cross season he travelled to Bethesda in North Wales for the Revolution Cycles League event and notched up yet another win by lapping the entire field.
A few (fool)hardy Wheelers have also braved the continued near freezing temperatures for the traditional season opening time trials and road races. Warren Jackson opened his time trialing season in the Chester RC Hilly 14 mile event with a solid 39.24 on a course which the mud made look more like Flanders than Cheshire.
Alex Taylor and Colin Lynch took part in the first round of the Paramount Circuit Race series at the Sundorne Sports Village near Shrewsbury. The tight and technically demanding circuit saw a number of crashes which both Taylor and Lynch did well to avoid and to finish their first race of the season. Lynch, who is training for the paracycling world championships in August, and Taylor followed this up the next day by organising a 80 mile ride around some of the biggest climbs in the Peak District."
Now for my annual reminder that whatever other skills I may have, clairvoyance is not one of them (if it were I would be lying on a beach somewhere having won the Lottery). Although I am prepared to do a little research to discover what people have done, this is limited by other demands on my time on a Sunday evening (like recovering from the Sunday training ride aka sleeping) so if you want to get your name up in lights then I need details of what you have done, together with a little background if at all possible.
Wishing you all a fast and safe season.
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