Pokerface at the World Cup in Segovia,Spain)

tailwindhome
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edited June 2011 in The bottom bracket
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2nd place in the Time Trial. Well done


Write up from Cycling Ulster.
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!

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  • garrynolan
    garrynolan Posts: 560
    Go Norn Iron!!
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Wow fantastic, well done him. The bikeradar spring fling seems to have had an effect
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  • Fat Head
    Fat Head Posts: 765
    Well done Mark
  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,219
    Well done
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Second place by a measly 0.4 seconds! Damn.

    Road race was today and I managed to pop a spoke early on. Rode the first half of the race with a wonky wheel before pulling over for a wheel change. But by the time I got a new wheel, the bunch was too far up the road and try as I might, could not chase back on. Rode the rest of the race solo and finished in 13th place - out of the points.

    However, due to a good result in the TT and a little luck (my main competition failed to finish the road race), I was able to hold onto the World Cup leader's jersey. There is one more round to go in Canada next month - and I wasn't scheduled to ride it, but we (my team) are currently looking at ways to raise the cash to send me there to compete and try and secure the jersey.

    Disappointing to have a mechanical in the race today as I was riding really strongly and would mostly likely have been on the podium (had I finished!).


    Thanks for the continued interest and support!
  • Velonutter
    Velonutter Posts: 2,437
    Well done Colin 8)
  • Pseudonym
    Pseudonym Posts: 1,032
    Fat Head wrote:
    Well done Mark
    Velonutter wrote:
    Well done Colin 8)

    well done, Trevor.....
  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    Nice one Colin, well done !!!!
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  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Myself (on right) and World Champion (Handcycling) and also World Cup leader - Mark Rohan - in our World Cup Leaders Jerseys.

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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Excellent stuff, Colin. It looks like you're well on track for Brands Hatch. Us Londoners will have to organise a BR outing to cheer you on - any excuse for getting out of town :lol:

    A question born of ignorance: how long is the course and how many laps will the race and TT be? It's probably my bad googling - I found the course ( http://www.london2012.com/documents/ven ... te-map.pdf ) but I couldn't see where the distances were published.
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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Props blud. :P
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    deptfordmarmoset wrote:
    A question born of ignorance: how long is the course and how many laps will the race and TT be? It's probably my bad googling - I found the course ( http://www.london2012.com/documents/ven ... te-map.pdf ) but I couldn't see where the distances were published.

    For my category - the TT is a maximum of 25km and the road race is 75km.

    For other categories (such as tandems) the TT is 35km and the road race can be as much as 120km.
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Full recap of the race weekend here if interested:

    http://637daystogo.blogspot.com/2011/06 ... -some.html
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Pokerface wrote:
    deptfordmarmoset wrote:
    A question born of ignorance: how long is the course and how many laps will the race and TT be? It's probably my bad googling - I found the course ( http://www.london2012.com/documents/ven ... te-map.pdf ) but I couldn't see where the distances were published.

    For my category - the TT is a maximum of 25km and the road race is 75km.

    For other categories (such as tandems) the TT is 35km and the road race can be as much as 120km.

    Ta muchly!
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