WaldenTRI | 10 Dec - Club Cyclo-Cross Event

10 Dec - Club Cyclo-Cross Event

The club ended the Autumn Term by holding it’s first ever Cyclo-Cross event on Saturday, and it proved to be a great success.

(A full set of photos taken by Elaine Bramley of the Saffron Walden Camera club can be viewed on our Flickr site)

Each training group took part in a race around a 1km loop at the Friends School which included some points where they had to dismount and push the bikes before remounting again and another section of the course which included some very tight turns. Each group raced for different lengths of time before hearing the bell which indicated one lap to go. As in Formula 1, once the winner has crossed the line, all racers finished on that lap.

There was some great racing and lots of smiling faces at the end despite the cold. Particular notable performances came from Matt Butler and Anna Whelan who both hit mechanical problems and ended up running half a lap to the finish line.

The race winners were:

Group	Girls	Boys
Group 1 (Tristart and Tristar 1)	Helena Dyce	James Fraser
Group 2 (Tristar 2)	Maisey Gosnell	Taylor Alexander
Group 3 (Tristar 3 and Youth 1)	Lottie Dyce	George Cook
Group 4 (Youth 2 and Junior)	Sophie Jones	John Clark

Overall the aim of the racing was to introduce a format which will help the members both build endurance but more importantly improve their bike handling skills, and a big thanks to to Mark Fraser who was the inspiration behind the event and put in lots of hard work organising the event and who managed to obtain some race bibs from Mark Wyer, the local British Cycling Go Ride co-ordinator.

The full results of the morning can be viewed below: