Members Aileen McGlynn Posted May 9, 2006 Members Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 Last week saw the start of our international competitions for 2006. The first event was a Grand Prix held in Newport in Wales on Wednesday night. In the Women's Tandem Sprint, Ellen Hunter and I came up against the Aussie team of Lindy Hou and Janelle Lindsay. We triumphed 2:0 as we tactically held the Aussies on our hip around the steep bankings before unleashing our power to get to the line first in both heats. We then travelled back to Manchester on Thursday to take part in the 2006 VISA Paralympic World Cup on the Friday evening. Our first event of the night was the Flying 200m TT, which for some reason or another isn't our best event. We were hoping to get under 12 seconds for this distance but only managed 12.044, with the Aussies winning in a time of 11.952. This made us more determined to do a world breaking time in our main event, the 1km TT. The World Record for the 1km TT, held by ourselves is 1:11.16 and we have held this since we won Gold in Athens. However we did break this record in training a couple of weeks ago and had done a 1:11.00, so the aim was to at least match this time. We were really fired up for this and we got the tandem off to a good start but then the back wheel slipped as we went around the first bend which will have lost us a bit of time. However we didn't panic and we kept pedalling as fast as we could. It was a great night for doing times as it was really warm and the track was fast. We crossed the line in a time of 1:10.431, a New World Record! The Assuies did 1:13.409. We were both delighted to have broken the World Record but were amazed at how much we had improved, knocking more than 7/10ths of a second off the previous record. We are now having a week off before we start our training for the main event this year, the World Championships to be held in Switzerland in September and before that I have the honour of collecting my MBE from the Queen at the Palace of Holyroodhouse on 5 July. Aileen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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2024 Subscriptions Darryl Gunson Posted May 9, 2006 2024 Subscriptions Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 It just keeps getting better and better...truly great riding. Well done DG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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