Finally the rain stopped! July was hopeless no track and caused a lot of grief for riders of LEL London Edinburgh London which I helped out for a mad continuous 42 hours. I will ride it next time so I can avoid volenteering! The LEL riders had to suffer flooded roads, no dry gear to change into plus Controls struggling to cope with the number of riders wanting to get shelter from the rain. Just to rub salt in the wounds there was a strong head wind blowing when the riders turned south.All that said back to the track racing...Name Club Time
Flying lap for new riders
Sarah Mitchell Johnstone Wh 18.41
A riders 15 lap scratch
1 Bruce Croall City of Edinburgh RC 4.48.11
2 David Martin the bicycleworks.com
3 Kevin Barclay Endura RT
Bruce was sporting his latest British Champ jersey and looked pretty fine in it to.Youth riders 4 lap block handicap
1 Rory Mellis Carnegie Cyclones 1.24.71
2 Adam Stobbart Edinburgh Racers
3 Sean Hadden Unattached
B + C riders 12 lap Block Handicap
1 Angus Gilles Peebles CC 4.12.88
2 Graeme Mair Edinburgh RC
3 Stuart Wallace Edinburgh RC
Well my last ride as a C as it was to turn out. Dunno where Angus came from but he did a great job pulling me back cos' I was trying I tell ya! Blooming well got me in the home straight darn it. Youth riders - Devil
1 Kate McCullogh Young Edinburgh Racers
2 Sean Noon Edinburgh RC
3 Flora Gilles Peebles CC
Course des prime – 1 point to winner of each sprint lap
C riders 6 laps
Lap 4 Stuart Wallace Edinburgh RC
Lap 2 Stuart Wallace Edinburgh RC
Lap 0 Euan Ramsay Spokes RT 2.10.15
Stuart did well as he usually does with this distance but you could see he was slowing where Euan was getting faster towards the end. So not a clean sweep for Stuart who had been on his own for much of the race. B riders 12 laps
Lap 10 Derek Timmins Musselburgh RCC
Lap 8 Derek Timmins Musselburgh RCC
Lap 6 Derek Timmins Musselburgh RCC
Lap 4 Derek Timmins Musselburgh RCC
Lap 2 Derek Timmins Musselburgh RCC
Lap 0 Derek Timmins Musselburgh RCC 4.30.40
Well my first B race was a bit embarrassing. Despite the fact there was only three of us racing as Ben gave it a body swerve Derek stomped all over this one not helped by the fact that I was all set to climb off at the second last sprint thinking it was the last, dooh! When I eventually did finish I was half a lap behind and I got harraunged with cries "you can't get back into the C's just pretending to ride slowly" Youth riders 4 laps
Lap 2 Kate McCullogh Young Edinburgh Racers
Lap 0 Kate McCullogh Young Edinburgh Racers 1.35.04
A riders 16 laps
Lap 14 Graeme Steen City of Edinburgh RC
Lap 12 Graeme Steen City of Edinburgh RC
Lap 10 Graeme Steen City of Edinburgh RC
Lap 8 Bruce Croall City of Edinburgh RC
Lap 6 David Martin the bicycleworks.com
Lap 4 Kevin Barclay Endura RT
Lap 2 Bruce Croall City of Edinburgh RC
Lap 0 David Martin the bicycleworks.com 5.19.71
Youths - Handicap
Heat 1
1 Flora Gilles Peebles CC 36.56
2 Adam Stobbart Edinburgh Racers
3 Sean Noon Edinburgh RC
Heat 2
1 Flora Matthews Edinburgh Racers 38.32
2 Stuart McClusky VC Glasgow South
3 Kate McCullogh Young Edinburgh Racers
Italian Pursuit
Winning team
David Martin the bicycleworks.com 2.53.11
Nick Yeats Musselburgh RCC
Ross Crook Edinburgh RC
Alastair Taylor Musselburgh RCC
Rachel Henderson Edinburgh RC
Sarah Mitchell Johnstone Wh
Graeme Mair Edinburgh RC
Derek Timmins Musselburgh RCC
Kyle Yates Edinburgh Racers
B&C riders 7 K scratch
1 Graeme Mair Edinburgh RC 10.38.12
2 Tony Nugent East Kilbride RC
3 Euan Ramsay Spokes RT
4 Rachel Henderson Edinburgh RC
Well this was more up my street and it showed. I did a couple attacks one of which had an interesting moment with a girl from Musselburgh club as I was making a move towards the front up on the blue when she went to swing off the front and got a surprise that I was there. Scared the guy behind to but for some reason I was completely relaxed about it all. As she slowed up and stayed on the front it had the lovely effect that she slowed the bunch so I got a lovely jump off the front.After a bit Tony was catching me so I eased up and worked with him till the last lap when I went up to the blue but he didn't or couldn't come through so I kept pushing for the line and won it. On the final laps I noticed that the rest of the field had eithter called it a day or were working in a couple of small groups with Rachel working really hard in particular all on her own. Paul would have been impressed with the effort she was putting in.ESCA 10k scratch championship
1 Bruce Croall City of Edinburgh RC 13.36.83
2 Ross Crook Edinburgh RC
3 David Martin the bicycleworks.com
4 Alastair Taylor Musselburgh RCC
5 Kevin Barclay Endura RT
6 Martin Ross Musselburgh RCC
ESCA 10k Croall leading
photo Alistair Watson