Robert Winder

I’m glad I waited a day for the perspective to come to me.  If I’d written this post last night it’d be full of self-pity and the guy that reads this blog (I call him Tom, because he’s in Belgium) would be turned off from ever reading again!  This was the stuff of dreams, sad [...]

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Thanks to Lori and the Velo Girls team for putting on another splendid day of racing.  The circuit is short, 4 corners and sadly today saw more than its fair share of major spills.
The paramedics were called out for W4, Master 3/4, Master 45+ fields and there may’ve been another one too…  Thats sad.  [...]

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Mex and Ruth turned up the heat in the Menlo Park GP - W4 field today.  Mex had teammate Linsey to work for and Ruth was on her own.
I’d talked with Ruth and Mex during the week about the long sprint from turn 4 and about race tactics for their race.  My feeling is [...]

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Thanks to Lori and team for putting on tomorrows fun in Menlo Park.
It has to be one of the least interesting crits you’ll ever do.  BUT, at least its only 45 minutes from home!  Actually, the grid on the inside of turn 2 makes it more interesting, as do the ruts that run parallel to [...]

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Ruth was turned down by Metromint - she’ll be riding unattached for now.
Last week I spotted that race promoters charge more for unattached riders.

I don’t understand why.

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I’ve been out of the UK since 1999, good for them, bad for me.  Before I left we would ride an annual event of over 120miles with lots of climbing and some remote countryside.  It was part of a series held under the rules of Audax, one of the rules was that this was non-competitive.
Since [...]

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What a great place to race, the first downtown crit for me this season and it was such a change from the usual industrial park.  I loved the circuit, fast, technical sections, long straights - a finish that was too far up the road - it has everything.
Entered in the geezers race, me and Chris [...]

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Riding the M35+ 123s makes me a sandbagger does it?  I suppose you think the racing in the E2’s this weekend was of a much higher quality.
Maybe you’re just afraid to race with the Masters, in case of the embarrassment of being dropped by them so you’d rather get dropped by the 2’s.
“its still too [...]

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Great riding by all the Nor Cal HS MTB event this weekend.
Ruth got a very good 4th place in her age group, many on her team got top-10’s and they’re a credit Leslie and her team of co-organisers on the team.
I’m going to watch next Sunday - I can’t wait to see racing on the [...]

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Its a time of nervous energy, patience is required as is not thinking about all the things that can go wrong!  I know that Mex had her fair share of waiting for me in the past and one of the nice things about us both riding now, is that she knows that time just goes [...]

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