It's the morning of the Maldon Cyclocross, round 5, little misty and slightly cold, proper cyclocross! All kit and bikes in the car the night before, leaves more time in bed! Whoo! We arrive at the venue, second there, Dad and I say hello to Carl Stephens from the Basildon CC before signing on. After…
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National Championships Race Report
Last weekend we made the 430 mile trip to Cathkin Braes MTB Track in Glasgow, as used for the Commonwealth Games in 2014, for this year’s National MTB Championships. Due to some roadworks (where I couldn’t actually see any ‘work’ going on just miles of cones!) This took us almost 9 hours. When we finally…
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Hadleigh Park International
The weekend of 30th/31st July was one of the best of my racing career so far. On the Saturday I rode a couple of practice laps of the Hadleigh Park course alongside some of the world's best, including Nino Schurter and Jolanda Neff. At the end of my practice I met and had my photo…
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MSG Carver Barracks: Round 6: 02/07/16
Well that was an eventful day! Heavy rain during the week meant that many people were fearing a repeat of the Hintlesham mud fest, they needn't have worried. A great course put together by Walden Velo and the MSG team was in perfect condition with little trace of mud. Firstly a few mentions about the…
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My first MTB race
Quite often you’ll find me standing behind tape, somewhere out on a course shouting (encouraging) things at HMTBC youth and adult race team members. I may also be donning a hi-vis to help run bike racing events as part of HMTBC events team. However, I decided that it was time to have a go at…
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MSG Round 8 Hadleigh Park by Robert Staines
Sunday 27th September 2015 It was the final race of the season on a beautiful autumn day. All the Youth team were racing and lots of other members of the club also entered the race at our home track. Going into the race I was lying 3rd in the series only needing a good result…
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Mud Sweat & Gears – PORC 6th Sept ember 2015
Although this race is not part of the Eastern Region series some of us in the Club decided to enter and venture south of the river for a change of scenery. We arrived at PORC early and set off to find the event village and sign on for the race. It was a long…
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Injury Prevention Evening – Harry Bates
Bianca Broadbent is a chartered physiotherapist and trained RETUL bike fitter. She was asked to come in to talk to the youth and other adult HMTBC members about injury prevention and correct bike fitting. It took part in the classroom at Hadleigh Park. Bianca’s presentation was given in two parts; injury prevention strategies and…
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MSG Round 4 Hadleigh Farm – by Robert Staines
The weekend started for George and I with the Aspire on Saturday. We got to the track nice and early to help set up the course before the Aspire started. The Aspire started at 10.00 and we focused on core skills for example cornering, front wheel and rear wheel lifts and pumping. In the…
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Hadleigh Farm Trail Maintenance – Harry Bates
We arrived at ten o’clock on a nice warm sunny day. Present were Phil Saxena from Architrail, Keely and people from the council, Park Rangers, a lady from the Salvation Army, volunteers and the youth members from Hadleigh Mountain Bike Club. The morning was to show us and the other people how to look…
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