On the back of a Top 10 ride in Thursday evenings club 10 mile T.T. with a short 27 minute time , only just behind our top club senior riders he made his début in the senior ‘B’ Group at Welwyn Track on Friday evening, a big step up from the Under 16s from last season, he said ‘ It was a lot faster than I expected it would be’.  All the same he still achieved a 8th & 9th place in two events and finished the evening in the bunch in the 10 mile closing event.

An impressive start to senior Track Racing for a 15 year old.

Up early Saturday morning to ride a circuit race at Hogg Hill, a selection event to represent  the Eastern Region at the UK School Games in September.

Alan’s race the U16’s had many of the top riders from this age group, again this is one step up from last season for Alan.  The race started fast for the first few laps, Alan was content to stay in the bunch and ride him self in, then Jack Oliver-Blaney Team Terminator went of the front & established a short lead, after another 2 laps Alex Anderson Welwyn Wheelers joined up with Jack they then held a 25sec lead over the bunch.  By now a about 30mins into the race Alan had ridden himself in & was showing strongly at the head of the bunch and made a loan bid to join the leaders which he soon achieved although there lead was down to 15ses, these 3 worked well together to hold there lead without any riders from the bunch able to get across.  On the last lap after 40mims of racing at he top of the hill Alex & Alan were together leaving Jack behind, down the hill & up the long drag Alex just held of Alan at the finish.

A very impressive performance, WELL DONE ALAN, I would pick you for my team any day.

PS. I said, you will have a lay in tomorrow won’t you, No I will be out on the club run.

West Suffolk Wheelers Vets track squad, made up of Team Captain Barry Denny, Steve Newman, James Carpenter and  Adrian Grimwood made the long journey to Newport track for the LVRC Track Championships. On the weekend 1^st nov 2009.

First up on the track was Adi in the 40 -44 Points race. Up against very experienced riders from top teams adiheld in the action until the race was ripped apart by eventual race winner Paul Wain ( Team Endura ) gaining a lap on the field. With the race coming back together adi was in position to score a point to put him on the scoreboard and finish 8^th in a very hotly contested race.

Next up was James Carpenter in the 45-49 age group. Although not scoring any points James managed to stay in the group in a race that was quite quick.

Steve Newman also raced the points as did our Team Captain Barry; both raced well although they did not score points.

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The West Suffolk Wheelers were in action in events on all three days of the annual Mildenhall Rally. With events across a range of discipline and distances, the August bank holiday weekend had a variety of cycling events for all types of cyclist.

The weekend began on with an Audax on Saturday. About a dozen Wheelers took part, including John Steed, Mark Eastwood, Chris and Will Curtin, Richard Lines, Mike Bowen, Nigel Stemp and David Young all on the 100k route and with Deane Hill doing 300k.

The youth grass track riders took centre stage on Saturday. In the under 14 grass track Omnium saw Alan Trolove dominating, giving the judges a problem when lapping the field in the Devil, and then riding off the front again. He made took a more conservative approach to the distance race, staying in the bunch till three laps to go, and then simply riding away from the bunch for a convincing win. Ed Ballam rode very well too, and despite pulling his foot out of the pedal twice in the sprints, found himself in second place overall coming into the final race. He rode very strongly and hung on very well to hold on to second overall, out of about 18 riders from all over the country. There are more photos of the grass track racing in the photo gallery.

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