Committee Alan McLean Posted September 28, 2011 Committee Report Share Posted September 28, 2011 Woohoo. Got me a late entry to join Paul in nationals at Aberdeen, in October. Report of my fight for 26th place to follow. Looks a bit hilly so maybe not the usual mass bunch sprint. Cross at Irvine first. The season has only just begun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Committee Alan McLean Posted October 9, 2011 Author Committee Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Fight for 23rd-ish place (maybe)! Hooray! Paul and I headed north in drizzle to lovely quiet little roads around Alford. Two laps of a 32 mile circuit with a couple of decent climbs. Unhappy to see at least one first cat on the start sheet but the clue was in the race title.It's the BC NATIONAL VETS race, McLean, of course all the best riders will be there. Doh. A decent break of eight or so went away at mile 20 and spent forty minutes cooking before being reeled in but the mighty Cusick and Kermode made their move and were soon out of sight. On the second lap I got spat out on the second nasty climb at about mile 55. and had a solo TT to finish but overtaken by VC Glasgow South rider in the last mile. Not last, but certainly not in the main bunch. Winner was John Kermode from Dundee, at least his second win. Congratulations. My recent two hour races and training runs were completely insufficient preparation for this longer race. Aberdeen joke: Fit like? Not me. Full results and report from Paul to follow. I'm away for a lie down, assuming I can walk. Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2023 Subscriptions P McDonald Posted October 9, 2011 2023 Subscriptions Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Indeed Alan Usual hectic pace for the national, first 20 miles very much attack, regroup, attack, line out, regroup etc. Jim Cusick and John Kermode, 2 of the older hands got away after about 15 miles and stayed away to end - chapeau. I got dropped for about 50m on the main climb on the second lap after 40 miles and after unsucessful effort to get back on I rode back to finish as I was at end of rope! Alan continued with a splendid effort but met a similar fate later - good for him completing the course c'est la vie - must do better next year John won for the 3rd time, big Jim second, Jamie Kennedy was 3rd (team mate of Jim, 1st year vet who I considered a favourite) jumped out the bunch with 7 miles to go and closed a near 2 minute gap to 8 secs of winner on his own Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2023 Subscriptions Ramsay Posted October 9, 2011 2023 Subscriptions Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Good effort guys. Tough way to end the road season! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EPCC Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Gteat effort guys and it nearly sounded like fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2023 Subscriptions ginty001 Posted October 9, 2011 2023 Subscriptions Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Sounds like a tough shift boys, well done Time for a well earned break, you must have at least a week before the winter training schedule starts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2024 Subscriptions Darryl Gunson Posted October 9, 2011 2024 Subscriptions Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Well done Alan and Paul. Better luck next year. Coffee stop at Largs next Sunday anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2023 Subscriptions martin Posted October 9, 2011 2023 Subscriptions Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Sounds like a tough shift boys, well done Time for a well earned break, you must have at least a week before the winter training schedule starts Naw naw. These two are both cross racers now. They'll surely be racing at Plean next week? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Committee Alan McLean Posted October 10, 2011 Author Committee Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 24th two places better than I predicted. http://www.braveheartfund.com/Community ... IC_ID=9465 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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