A great new blog post on keeping your options open by our very own Heather Bamforth for The Racing Chance Foundation, excellent advice I felt we had to share it with CyclingShorts.cc readers.
http://racingchancefoundation.com/having-a-plan-b/
The Future’s Bright for Fred Wright! Hoy Future Star Fred Wright – Telegraph Allstars, returned to the boards and a triple victory in Manchester..
Hoy Future Star Fred Wright returned to the boards of Manchester for the penultimate round of Series Thirteen of the Revolution Series. Wright had been sidelined in an incident at the London Round, and has watched his lead after London slip, trailing the new leader Lewis Stewart (Scotland) by seventy-six points.
Fred came out all guns blazing to win all three races, and has reduced his deficite to forty-three points behind Lewis, and tall order going into the final round if he is to steal the overall title. He showed his determination going for a solo-break towards the end of the twenty-lap Scratch Race that looked quite impressive gaining just over half a lap on the field. As the front runners were all swept-up in the closing lap, Wright burst out of the pack once more and over the line for his third podium.
The Scottish pairing of Stewart and Nally proved an winning combination in the Madison, collecting points in both sprints and finishing across the line in first position.
Jessica Roberts (Team USN) retained the overall Future Star Girls title going into the final round. She holds the lead by Sixty-two points. Things weren’t as easy this time around for Roberts as the Scottish girl Jenny Holl took the Points Race victory and the Scratch Race victory.
Roberts pairing with Elizabeth Bennett proved a successful combination in the Madison, beating Holl and Rhona Callander by one point, evening up the victories on the day to two win each.
It was all change at the top of the Elite Championship as Team WIGGINS climb up the leader board before the final battle later in January as the series concludes. They now lead Team Pedalsure by twenty-nine points who had a poor night in Manchester.
Laura Trott, Matrix Pro Cycling dominated the Elite Women’s UCI race events once more. Fending off stiff competition, this time from the Netherlands Kristen Wild. Fighting back after a tumble with Leire Olaberria and Henrietta Colbourne, Trott wearing her new National Champions skin suit went on to take the Points Race podium.
It didn’t all go Trotts way though. Emily Nelson had enough pace to steal the final race of the evening, the Women’s UCI Scratch Race, with Trott settling for second position.
The Elite Sprinters put on a show to a packed National Cycling Centre audience here in Manchester too. German rider Robert Fӧrstemann ensured our top lads were pushed to their limits.
Setting the quickest Sprint Qualifier, Matt Rotherham was very enthusiastic throughout the whole event thrilling the crowd with some quick racing. Winning the Longest Lap & Sprint Competitions, Rotherham rode around the boards, arms aloft, much to the delight of the crowd. Rotherham beat Oliva in the finals in two straight heats.
Lewis Oliva took the Keirin competition podium, coming second in the first race to Rotherham, but Matt finished further down in the second race losing by a few points, with Oliva winning the second heat.
Revolution 56 – Round 5 Penultimate Round Manchester 02nd January 2016
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSION:
Doors open at 12:00. Racing from 13:00 to 16:30
Ev1 UCI Sprint – Qualification 200m Time Trial Men
1: Matthew Rotherham 10.144
2: Robert Förstemann 10.146
3: Lewis Oliva 10.151
4: Thomas Scammell 10.305
5: Ryan Owens 10.354
6: Alex Joliffe 10.661
7: Dominic Suozzi 10.673
8: Sam Ligtlee 10.693
Ev2 Elite Championship – Flying Lap Men
1: Ollie Wood 13.251
2: Chris Latham 13.521
3: Mark Cavendish 13.654
4: Elia Viviani 13.664
5: Jon Dibben 13.765
6: Joe Holt 13.867
7: David Muntaner 13.928
8: Angus Claxton 14.092
9: Simone Consonni 14.122
10: Reece Wood 14.249
11: Garbiel Cullaigh 14.272
12: Nathan Draper 14.622
Ev4 UCI Points Race (20km) Women
1: Laura Trott
2: Elinor Barker
3: Emily Kay
4: Emily Nelson
5: Kristen Wild
6: Ellie Dickenson
7: Manon Lloyd
8: Danielle Khan
9: Leire Olabarria
10: Henrietta Colborne
11: Megan Barker
12: Charline Joiner
13: Abbie Dentus
14: Rebecca Raybould
15: Annasley Park
Ev6 Elite Championship UCI Points Race (30km) Men
1: Jon Dibben
2: Mark Stewart
3: Matt Gibson
4: David Muntaner
5: Elia Viviani
6: Owain Doull
7: Matt Bostock
8: Ollie Wood
9: Gabriel Cullaigh
10: Christian Grasmann
11: Joe Holt
12: Jacob Ragan
13: Joey Walker
14: Angus Claxton
15: Nathan Draper
Ev8 HOY Future Stars Madison – Girls 10km
1: Team USN Jessica Roberts/ Elizabeth Bennett
2: Scotland Burness Paull Jenny Holl/ Rhona Callender
3: Maloja Pushbikers RT Docherty/ Hine
4: Team WIGGINS Russell/ Hilliard
5: ONE Pro Cycling Dolan/ Morgan
6: Team Sky
7: Orica GreedEdge
8: VCUK-Champion Systems
9: Team Pedalsure
10: Telegraph Allstars
11: JLT Condor p/b Mavic
12: The Nab Racing
Ev9 Scratch / Elimination 5Kms Women
1: Laura Trott
2: Kristen Wild
3: Ellie Dickinson
4: Emily Kay
5: Emily Nelson
6: Danielle Khan
7: Leire Olaberria
8: Abbie Dentus
9: Manon Lloyd
10: Elinor Barker
11: Charline Joiner
12: Keira McVitty
13: Annasley Park
14: Megan Barker
15: Monica Dew
Ev10 HOY Future Stars Madison – Boys 10km
1: Scotland Burness Paull Lewis Stewart/ Joe Nally
2: Maloja Pushbikers Hamish Turnbull/ Matthew Shaw
3: The Nab Racing Alex Ridehalgh/ Jamie Ridehalgh
4: Telegraph Allstars
5: ONE Pro Cycling
6: Team WIGGINS
7: Team USN
8: VCUK-Champion Systems
9: Team Sky
10: Orica GrenEdge
11: Team Pedalsure
12: JLT Condor p/b Mavic
Ev12 Revolution Longest Lap – Sprinters
SATURDAY EVENING SESSION:
Doors open at 18:00. Racing from 19:00 to approx. 22:30
Ev14 HOY Future Stars Points Race (5km) Girls
1: Jenny Holl
2: Jessica Roberts
3: Anna Docherty
4: Sophie Williams
5: Rachel Jary
6: Amber Joseph
7: Ellie Russell
8: Rhona Callender
9: Samantha Verrill
10: Charlotte Cole-Hossain
Ev16 Special Event GB v Team Wiggins Team Pursuit (2km) Men
Team WIGGINS beat Team GBR by one second.
Ev17 HOY Future Stars Points Race (5km) Boys
1: Fred Wright
2: Lewis Stewart
3: Conor Davis
4: Matthew Burke
5: Oscar Mingay
6: Jake Stewart
7: Jim Brown
8: Louis Rose-Davies
9: Theo Hartley
10: Jamie Ridehalgh
Ev19 Elimination Race Women
1: Laura Trott
2: Kristen Wild
3: Emily Kay
4: Leire Olaberria
5: Emily Nelson
6: Manon Lloyd
7: Megan Barker
8: Keira McVitty
9: Abbie Dentus
10: Henrietta Colborne
11: Ellie Dickinson
12: Danielle Khan
13: Ellie Coster
14: Elinor Barker
15: Annasley Park
Ev21 Elite Championship Scratch Race (15km) Men
1: Jon Dibben
2: Elia Viviani
3: Matt Gibson
4: Andy Tennant
5: Mark Stewart
6: Joe Holt
7: Christian Grasmann
8: Jacob Ragan
9: Owain Doull
10: Ollie Wood
11: Reece Wood
12: Matt Bostock
13: Simone Consonni
14: Angus Claxton
15: Joey Walker
Ev24 HOY Future Stars 6 Lap Dash (1.km) Girls
1: Jessica Roberts
2: Rhona Callander
3: Jenny Holl
4: Sophie William
5: Ellie Russell
6: Lauren Dolan
7:Elizabeth Bennett
8: Gemma Penman
9: Samantha Verrill
10: Tara Ferguson
Ev27 HOY Future Stars 6 Lap Dash (1.5km) Boys
1: Fred Wright
2: Jake Stewart
3: Chris Heaton
4: Hamish Turnbull
5: Matthew Burke
6: Jim Brown
7: Sam Tillett
8: Jamie Ridehalgh
9: Jacob Vaughan
10: Lewis Stewart
Ev28 Elite Championship Madison Chase (30 mins) Men
1: Maloja Pushbikers RT
2: Telegraph Allstars
3: JLT Condor p/b Mavic
Ev31 HOY Future Stars Scratch Race (5km) Girls
1: Jenny Holl
2: Jessica Roberts
3: Sophie Williams
4: Samantha Verrill
5: Rhona Callander
6: Savanah Morgan
7: Ellie Russell
8: Elizabeth Bennett
9: Rachel Jary
10: Georgia Ashworth
Ev32 HOY Future Stars Scratch Race (5km) Boys
1: Fred Wright
2: Alistair Fielding
3: Jim Brown
4: Sam Tillett
5: Theo Hartley
6: Conor Davies
7: Chris Heaton
8: Hamish Turnbull
9: Ben Hardwick
10: Jake Stewart
Ev33 UCI Scratch Race Women
1: Emily Nelson
2: Laura Trott
3: Emily Kay
4: Leire Olaberria
5: Kristen Wild
6: Elinor Barker
7: Megan Barker
8: Danielle Khan
9: Annasley Park
10: Manon Lloyd
11: Ellie Coster
12: Charline Joiner
13: Rebecca Raybould
14: Emma Cockcroft
15: Monica Dew
The next round of Revolution will be Race 57 the Finale for Series Thirteen.
Round 1: 14/15/16 August Derby
Round 2: 24 October Manchester
Round 3: 14 November London
Round 4: 28 November Glasgow
Round 5: 02 January Manchester
Round 6: 23 January Manchester
Special Thanks to www.facepartnership.com
Official Website www.cyclingrevolution.com
Flickr Photo Gallery Updated Regularly throughout the Winter Season at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23913935@N07/sets/72157623276235092/
Facebook Photo Set (Look)
A nice short film from the guys at Diagonal View with 2 time World Champion and Olympic Medal Winner Shane Perkins, he talks through the intense physical preparation that track cyclists go through to compete, and win at the top level.
Photo Credit for top image and link to Neon Velo: Marshall Kappel
Gabby Durrin Press Release (as one door closes another opens)
A lot has been going on this year for me. I have been away from racing for a little while and I have made some big decisions over the past couple months.
I am RETIRING from professional cycling, and I am very happy to be moving on to the next chapter in my life. I have been racing professionally for the past 13 years, and they were the most amazing years of my life. The memories and friendships I’ve made along the way will stay with me forever.
I have written a blog about what I have been going through over the past couple years with depression and losing the spark for racing. I am very proud of what I have accomplished, and am excited to find that spark in the next adventure and chapter in my life.
http://www.team-awesome.cc/neon-velo/closing-a-chapter-and-starting-a-new/
Neon Velo Announcement
We’re pleased to announce that Gabby Durrin has accepted a full time position as brand Marketing Executive for Neon Velo starting 2016. The role comes with a move back to the UK where both Gabby and Jeremy will work closely with Neon Velo brand at their Hertfordshire based headquarters. Gabby will be using her years of experience in the cycling industry to help grow the Neon Velo Brand, it’s Race Team and Products. Jeremy will continue racing for the team on the road and CX primarily in the UK and Europe. Jeremy and the other team riders will also help to further develop the exciting Neon Velo product range through 2016.
-Neon Velo’s Emma Backhouse stated.
“Gabby has such a wealth of knowledge within the industry and the sponsors who have supported her throughout the years really show the level of professionalism she carries with her. She will be a valued asset to the program on multiple levels and we can’t wait to see what the next year brings!”
-Gabby Stated earlier today.
“We are extremely excited about this opportunity for our next step with Neon Velo. I am very happy to have been offered such a great position and it makes the transition from professional cycling seamless and allows me to maximize my 12+ years of industry experience to the full potential. Neon Velo is an exciting brand with big ambitions and we’re looking forward to 2016”
Gabby Posted the following statement on Facebook earlier today.
2016 has a whole new exciting opportunity for me.
Thank you all for all the great years, and this won’t be the last of me you will see around cycling.
I will update you all soon on what my next adventure is, but it’s definitely exciting!
I will be moving to the UK with Jeremy Durrin after accepting a full time position with Neon Velo as brand marketing executive. Jeremy and I will be based in Hertfordshire close to where the Neon Velo HQ is based.
Photo Credit Brad Warren
I am very excited about this huge change in my life. Having over 12+ years experience in the cycling industry I am looking forward to working on the business side. This opportunity will be great in helping me to transition out of professional cycling and into the business world!
Jeremy will still be racing for Neon Velo on the road and in cyclocross primarily in the UK and Europe with an early season USA cyclocross campaign.
2016 is set to be a whole new change and array of opportunities for Jeremy and I. We are both looking forward to the future.
I am very fortunate to have this opportunity and it has come at the perfect time for me. Retiring from professional cycling was a tough thing to do and it is rather scary and unknown, but this move certainly allows me to focus on new challenges and experiences which is really what life is all about!
I now get to write a whole new chapter in my book of life! Follow along…
Happy New Year everyone. May your year be filled with happiness, health and adventure!
On behalf of Cyclingshorts I would like to wish Gabby and Jeremy all the best for the coming year. Remember you can keep up to date with all things cyclocross, sports nutrition, training and cycle holidays at www.cyclingshorts.cc
Sim Parrott
Forget the fireworks bringing in the New Year. The real fireworks begin this weekend on the boards at the penultimate round of the #RevolutionSeries.
Revolution 56 in the National Cycling Centre at Manchester will set the scene for the final push to represent Great Britain at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Big names are beginning show their intent to get on the long-list of potential athletes that will be in with a look at boarding that plane to Rio this Summer, but who will going?
Before we can answer that question, we need to tie up the Revolution Elite Championship.
Team Pedalsure top the table with the final round only a couple of weeks or so away, also in Manchester.
Andrew Tennant and Chris Latham will be defending their lead, but Official TEAMIES Jon Dibben and Owain Doull are hot on their wheels for Team WIGGINS.
Joining the party are last years Champions Christian Grasmann and David Muntaner for Maloja Pushbikers RT sitting in third position at the moment.
Mark Cavendish makes a return to the track for Telegraph Allstars bolstering up his desire to represent Team GB at Rio. He along with Wood, Gibson and Latham will race against Team WIGGINS Tennant, Burke, Doull and Dibben in a special Team Pursuit Challenge.
Fred Wright returns to take up the HOY Future Star Boys competition challenge for the Telegraph Allstars, but he’s going to find it hard to catch series leader Lewis Stewart from Team Scotland who has an eight-two point lead over him.
Meanwhile in the Girls competition, Jessica Roberts, Team USN still holds a comfortable forty-one point lead with two rounds remaining.
Big names in the men’s Sprint competition are set to grace the boards in Manchester once more, none bigger than Robert Fӧrstemann. Joining him to push our lads to their limits are American Dominic Suozzie, Netherland’s Sam Ligtlee and Alex Joliffe.
Pushing our best female Olympic Hero Laura Trott in the Elite Women’s events this time round is no other than the current Scratch Race World Champion Kirsten Wild. Wild finished third place behind Trott’s Silver in the Omnium Event at the Worlds, to be held in two months time in London, and she is joined by Poland’s Gosia Wrotya along with regulars Leire Olaberria, Emily Kay and Elinor Barker.
Another big name for Rio 2016, in attendance at the #RevolutionSeries riding for Team Sky is Italy’s Elia Viviani. We spoke to Elia back at the first stage of the Aviva TOB after beating Cavendish and Griepel. Check out what he said after the win and what his plans where for in 2016, here.
Cycling Shorts unleashes Santa’s Little Helpers.
Yes the panic is setting in, so much to get organised and so little time, so we’ve all got together to give you a list of gift ideas that won’t disappoint the fussiest cyclist or cycling fan in your life.
We’ve split our choices into four perfect price packages, click on the images to be taken to the retailers website.
Wishing you a Merry Festivemas from all at CyclingShorts.cc!
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