Scared, me? err, well yes actually. When the entries went in a few weeks ago, July the 6th seemed like such a long time away, but as with all big scary races, race day comes around soon enough whether you’re ready or not. This weekend’s National Team Time Trial champs are no exception.
I arrived to the transition area early in the morning. I checked my bike and put on some nutrition. Although I was in a big hurry I just finished about 6 a.m. Than I put on my wetsuit and went to the start line. There were so much competitors (2600 persons) that I could hardly go through the crowd. At the startline I run against two other Hungarian guys who were quite a good swimmers. At least we fell into the first line, Zamora Perez stood on my left hand, Hervé Faure stood on my right hand, so we were in limelight.
So after a light week I went to race Homem de Ferro (http://www.homemdeferro.org/) mainly to see how my body would deal with the hard training done in June. I had break records on bike miles totals so I was hoping to feel good on the bike and see how it would unfold on the run.
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The GP of Wales turned out to be arguably the toughest race on the UK calendar, Taking in the notorious Tumble Mountain, and a very difficult hill on the finishing circuit, that had to be covered 8 times.The teams race plan was to get Liam to the bottom of the tumble mountain in good shape. Unfortunately we missed a big split early on with only Jon Mozley in it along with most of the pre race favourites. With the gap of around 1min 50sec, Moz came back out of the break to help the team start a big chase.
Its all smiles as Richard Prince poses with his Planet-x track bike prior to bombing off to the Masters National Championships in Newport next weekend. Richard will be looking to defend his 2007 Points Race Champion crown and improving on his bronze medal places in the Scratch and Pursuit events.
We wish Richard every success along with our ”master” wheel builder Mark Minting who I see has entered all five events in the Men E group. Good luck guys
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Meet Helen. She is one of Planet X’s latest customers. She travelled to sunny Doncaster to come and collect her new pink SL Pro Carbon road bike. She will be doing her first Olympic distance triathlon in Wakefield next month so make sure you say ‘hello’ to her in transition! Preliminary negotiations have started for Helen to come and do some photo shoots for the new S2 clothing that is arriving soon. Keep an eye on www.s2clothing.com if you want to see more.
I was well under Dave’s radar, and Mark and Wayne go and spoil it for me. A National Team win in last weekend’s 50 mile championship and my cover’s blown. “Is Cammish still riding for us” he asked (apparently!)! “I thought he’d died …..haven’t heard hide not hair from him since I mentioned the Team Time Trial. Where can I get hold of him? He still owes me for those caramel slices” (again…..apparently!).
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So the Scandal and the Flash Xentis wheels certainly did the trick on Saturday at the UK Xterra. The conditions were definitely not what i was hoping for, as it rained pretty much from start to finish. It is now pretty well known that my biggest weakness in Xterra is my MTB technical skills. Add on to that the wet and muddy conditions, and things get a whole lot harder…and messier. I bet Mel Mcquaid was wishing she had made the trip after all!
So it’s time for me to put away the Stealth for the weekend, and dust off my On-One Scandal as I attempt to tackle the delights of Xterra UK again. Luckily for me the guys at PX/On-one have also hooked me up with some super sweet wheels to go with it. Some Xentis Mtb wheels. A lot of people have now seen the Xentis TT wheels and the super light high modulus versions, but few have seen these flash looking MTB wheels. Boy are they light? and they look cool too.
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These neat Jagwire shifter mounts are now available as a hop-up on our time trial complete bikes. NOTE :: They’ll only work on the Stealth Mk1 extensions, or the alloy bars - not the Mk2’s.
A quick visit to Doncaster from the big man to pick up a new ride and a photoshoot, where else but Burnham-on-Sea!
