Glenmore Saturday - Results

Final results for Saturday's race at Glenmore Lodge can be found here.

Glenmore Newsflash

What a day of racing! Full results and updated league tables coming very shortly. In the meantime, a run down of today's winners.

Female Open: Ruth Fraser-Moodie (Pedal Power)
Male Senior: Craig Hardie (HardieBikes.com)

Male Veteran: Iain Nimmo (Squadra Porcini)
Male Youth: Scott Lindsay (i-Cycles)
Female Youth: Yuka Gallagher (777 MTB)
Male Junior: Jack Taylor (Drumlanrig)
Female Junior: Morag Eagleson (Rosshire RCC)
U12s: Jamie Willoughby (Drumlanrig)
U10s: Henry Kerr (Laggan Wolfpax)

Remember, all race times are an hour earlier tomorrow:
10:00 Youth
11:00 Women, Veterans, Juniors
12:30 Open
14:00 Under 12s

SCX League Tables

Provisional league tables including all results so far can be found here.

Mugdock Report

Mugdock normally brings the first proper mud of the Scottish Cyclocross series and the 2009 event promoted by Glasgow Mountain Bike Club certainly didn’t disappoint on that front.

The Youths were released onto the course at 11:00 to churn the course up for the Seniors and by the time the massive field lined up on the start line at 12:00, the muddy section were in prime condition and the roots had been polished up nicely. Scott Lindsay (i-Cycles) returned to winning ways in Male Youths and Louise Borthwick took the Female Youths prize.

The main race of the day rolled out of the arena to take the start on a wide section of estate road. The front end of the race tore down the hill and past by the ruins of Craigend Castle before climbing to the start of the singletrack section. A couple of crashes in the first few hundred metres took some of the regular front runners down and put them way back in the field with a lot of overtaking to do. At the front Paul Newnham (Edinburgh Road Club) and Craig Hardie (Hardie Bikes) attacked and opened a gap on the bunch. Newnham and Hardie duelled for several laps, catching the back end of the field in no time. As the rain began to fall Hardie put in a big effort and gained an immediate advantage over Newnham which was to last until the finishing line. A fine win for the man just back from a week in Lanzarote working on his tan racing legs.

In the women’s race, Ruth Fraser-Moodie (Pedal Power) again dominated the rest of her opponents again and took a decisive victory – her third in three races. Can anyone touch Ruth this year?

Charles Fletcher (Cairngorm CC) took the Junior race and will be looking to repeat on home turf next weekend.





Our ace reporter, Guy Willoughby, was again on hand to report on the action from a packed U12s race.

Forty one lined up for the start of the combined U12, U10 and U8 race - with the smallest riders given a 1/2 lap start. All of the 300m course had been previously ridden over by the Youth and Senior racers, so with continuing showers the track was either wet and very slippery, or in other parts wet and muddy. All the riders, from the youngest to the oldest, had worked out by the second lap that speed alone would have them on their sides in a slide, so had to pick their routes and used their skills to stay upright. As in the senior races, the front runners also had their skills tested in overtaking lapped riders on quite a narrow track, with the result that the more experienced racers stretched the field. Under 12 rider Jamie Willoughby (Drumlanrig) got another excellent start, with Joe Nally (Carnegie Cyclones) tracking him in second for a lap and hoping for a repeat of Auchentoshen where he overtook Willoughby. However Cameron Shackley (Glasgow Riderz) riding his best race of the season nipped past Nally, leaving Nally to battle it out in a lap by lap joust with Lewis Stewart (Glasgow Riderz). Leading U10 rider Cameron Mellis (Carnegie Cyclones)kept in touch with that pair and maintained 5th position. Of the girls, both U12 riders Emma Borthwick (Edinburgh RC) and Erica Allen (Wallace Warriors) were badly hampered by fallers early on which meant the above five boys managed to get away from them on the opening laps. Borthwick and Allen matched each other for all 10 minutes plus a lap, but a slip by Borthwick on the penultimate lap allowed Allen to win the girls race by 3 seconds. The leading U10 girl was Ariana Willoughby (Drumlanrig), who rode a dogged race to achieve her best placing of the season.

On the line Willoughby took first, just 15 seconds ahead of Shackley, followed by Nally, Stewart (held up by traffic on the last lap) and then leading U10 Mellis in 5th overall. They were followed in almost a lap down by U12 girls Allen and Borthwick, with Ariana Willoughby heading the U10 girls. All 41 riders had a great chance to experience racing, and the many faces of pure determination bodes well for the future of Scottish cycling, and of course the pair of races at Glenmore next weekend.

Many thanks to Glasgow Mountain Bike Club for coping for another superb race and to event sponsors Alpine Bikes and The Bike Wear House for their support.

We have some lost and founds from last weekend. If you lost some wellies or a fleece then please get in touch using the comment function.

Race Pics
Trina Ritchie and others were on hand to capture the action from around the course – lots of great images are on Flickr in the Scottish Cyclocross Group . Feel free to add your own photos to this group.

Next Up – Rounds Four and Five – Glenmore Lodge
The series head north this weekend for the most northerly cyclocross races in Britain at Glenmore Lodge, near Aviemore with events being hosted by Velo Club Moulin. The races will be run within the grounds of Scotland’s National Outdoor Training Centre amongst the stunning scenery of the Cairngorms National Park. The courses will mix skinny singletrack, grassy switchbacks, fast tarmac, hurdles and a near vertical wall of a climb. Fast and furious racing should proceed!

Mugdock Results

UPDATE: 27/11/2009

GMBC have gone through the lap counting sheets and have been able to provide additional results for the Mugdock round Senior, Veteran and U12 categories. These can be found here. Results for other categories are unchanged.

Please also see this statementon the situation from the Scottish Cyclocross Association.

SCX Glenmore Lodge

OK, so with two days to go before the Glenmore Lodge CX, here's the lowdown on what to expect.

Glenmore Lodge is Scotland's National Outdoor Training Centre, smack in the heart of the awe inspiring Cairngorm National Park. The courses for the weekend in the grounds of the lodge incorporate sections of the Biathlon training loop and mtb skills loop as well as the grounds themselves. It is fast and tight racing not shy on gradient.

Velo Club Moulin have had a lot of support for this round, none more so than from Glenmore Lodge, who have been nothing but helpful, a big thankyou.

Prizes and race support thanks go out to;
Bikelove, Bulmers, ProVelo Support, Road.CC, Endura, Mikes Bikes, SCX, Geoff Waugh Photography and Montville Joinery & Shopfitting. A big thankyou.

The prize fund is growing and is in the region of £1800 for the weekend.
Open top 5
Veteran top 5
Women Top 3
Junior Top 3
Male Youth Top 3
Female Youth Top tbc
Under 12s and 10s will receive spot prizes all donated by Mikes Bikes.

Also we have two beautiful Cyclo Cross coffee table books donated by Geoff Waugh Photography, these are unfortunately in Belgian but are photo heavy and will be awarded to the HURDLE HERO, most stylish rider over the hurdles each day will receive one of these with a large Belgian brew to kick back post race.

A little note on the splitting of the main race. In order to create a fast and flowing race, we felt it was necessary to split the open race, the fairest way to do so was to take the Veterans, Junior and Women out of the Open race, the consensus also was for this race to still last an hour, however any fast vets, junior or women who want to race open can do so but there will be no sub categories within it. The prize fund for the Open and Veteran races is the same.

Enough on that, parking is tight at Glenmore so please car share where possible and park sensibly on the day. It's a beautiful location, enjoy it.

The timetable for the weekend is as follows.

Round 4 Saturday 31 Oct
11:00 Youth
12:00 Vets, Women, Juniors
13:30 Open
15:00 Under 12s

18:00 Fancy Dress Night Cross (YES you WILL need lights) Seniors only.

Round 5 Sunday 1st Nov
10:00 Youth
11:00 Vets, Women, Juniors
12:30 Open
14:00 Under 12s

For information on how to get to Glenmore Lodge, click here. Note that the postcode alone may take you to the wrong location, Google Maps (and therefore the British Cycling website) points you to the wrong outdoor centre.


Photos: Mark Williamson

Knockburn Loch Cross - Update

News just in from the organisers of the Knockburn Loch Cross on 8th November:

 

The Knockburn race courses are now agreed. Click on the link below for course maps:

Youth & Seniors

U12

 

Both courses run anti-clockwise and almost all of the seniors course can be viewed from the start/finish area.

Missing from the satellite photos are the shower/changing room block, garage and house we have built especially for the race ;-). They are all near the start/finish point.

We will also have catering and Banchory Cycles on-site.

 

We'll hopefully be able to post a video of the course this weekend so you can see what we have in store for you.

National School of Racing - 31st October

Details of a National School of Racing this Saturday in Kilmarnock. Click poster to make bigger!

Mugdock Quickie

Well that was a bit muddy, eh? Hope you had fun and haven't destroyed your washing machines.

Congratulations to Ruth Fraser-Moodie and Craig Hardie for battling through the filth to take well deserved wins.Well done too to Glasgow Mountain Bike Club for following up two great events with another great event! Yet another record attendance for a Scottish cyclocross race, we're on a roll.

Full report and results coming soon.

National School of Racing

Scottish Cycling's Paul Newnham reports on a cyclocross coaching event held recently:

Fantastic weather greeted 59 of the best young riders in Scotland for a full day of coaching at the Ingliston showground in Edinburgh last Saturday (17th October). Riders from all regions of Scotland were invited to take part in the session, and to be put through their paces by the coaching team led by Talent Coaches Paul Newnham and Mark Mckay.

The first part of the day’s activities looked at the basics of group riding and also gave the riders a chance to show the coaches their existing skills with a one lap blast around the cross race course. After a quick bite to eat and drink the riders delved into learning the core Cyclocross techniques which included mounting and dismounting, shouldering the bike, cornering and off camber riding. As the session continued it was clear to see the improvement in the rider’s abilities, and everybody was really getting the skills they needed to be smooth skillful Cyclocross racers.

On to the final part of the day and the riders now had the chance to put what they had learnt into practice and race three short handicap races around the course that included fast road sections, tight switchbacks and hurdles. As the races progressed the coaches were all very impressed with the commitment of the riders and how everybody got stuck in and kept riding as hard as they could right to the very end. To conclude the activities riders were debriefed in their small groups and given a homework sheet to take away with them for future race success.

After 5 hours, multiple laps and many new skills learnt the riders went home tired but really excited to put their new found skills to good use at the Scottish series round the next day. The coaches were very impressed with the attitude and commitment of the riders and with record numbers of riders at the first round of the Scottish National cyclocross Series at Plean, the future for cyclocross in Scotland is very bright indeed!