Many of our athletes competed in the Junior Hill Climbing Championships last weekend.  Angus Lyons had a great weekend, winning the time trial and finishing 3rd in road race.  Here is his report:

Time Trial Report: By Angus Lyons

After riding the TT course the night before I was feeling great. The pre warm-up with the rest of the group on Saturday got me focused and ready. I went out fairly hard, with the aim of holding 45km/h until the first hill. I caught the first rider at the top (4km). Heading past the ticket office I was aiming to hold 25km/h until the U15 finish. It was here that I caught rider no. 2. With this mental boost I put everything into the next 3-4km hoping to see rider number 3 at any point but never did. The last kilometre was a crawling sprint which probably gave me the 1.8 seconds over Lucas Hamilton to cling on to 1^st place with a time of 16min41sec.

Road race Report:

The first lap was quite civilised the commissaires message of “if you can’t sort it out in 17km of mountain, you haven’t got a hope” ringing in our ears. Nevertheless, an attack slipped away a few km’s before the roundabout but no one really bothered to chase it down, it disintegrated and was caught within 2km’s of the climb proper.

Lucas Hamilton and I attacked and countered until the was a bunch of 5 including Drew Morey. The attacks continued for the next few km’s, after which the pace settled to a quick tempo. Jordan Stannus managed to claw his way onto the back of the group.

Halfway, Hamilton had another shot at breaking us up with a long fast turn on the front that had us all chewing the handlebars. We were all together with 3km to go.

An explosive blood nose at 1.5km out distracted me just enough for the others to get the jump. With 500m to go I had got myself back up to third but with so little time left, didn’t have a chance to catch the other two and come over the line still in third place.

Please click here for photos provided by Jim Morey.  2012-03-31 Buffalo

And thanks to the photos below provided by Alan Hale.