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Nick Hardy Road Race – Report

Race Report from Nick – Nick Hardy Memorial Road Race

Date: Sunday 13th April 2014
Organiser: Angus Bike Chain

Well, it wasn’t really a race for me, just survival. I was a bit worried about riding on those narrow roads in a big bunch, but that didn’t turn out to be much of an issue! It kicked off ok, I was expecting it to be fast, but they just kept accelerating from the gun. I lost Alasdair and Steve at that point.

I saw Pedro sprinting past me and tried to get on his wheel but missed. I don’t even know if it was the wheel I was following that got gapped or me, but it didn’t take long for me to be sitting up and looking behind me for a group. The problem was that there wasn’t one! It was just ones and twos. So I had to catch the people getting dropped ahead and it wasn’t until I caught an Aberdeen wheeler (who promptly vomited on his arm) that I had someone to work with. It was into the wind and used a LOT of energy.

Then I was very pleased to see Pedro and get caught by a slightly bigger group at the end of the first lap (when I took a wrong turn and nearly went home) but we shed most of them on the first rise leaving us with (at most) a group of 5. A deeside guy, two Aberdeen wheelers and us. Well, until about 10k to go when I bonked and the elastic snapped.
Those last 10k were pretty grim. I lost 3 minutes to Pedro in that time. I was pretty sure that I was going to vomit.
I finished 39th, 17 minutes down on the winner.

So it was fun!
Let’s do it again next year…
Right, Paul?

Results can be found on the British Cycling website.

Well done chaps great effort!
COG Velo

 

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Nick Hardy Memorial Road Race

The Nick Hardy Memorial Road Race is an 80km road race around Monikie Country Park by Dundee, over 3 laps of a sporting course, finishing off the public roads within Monikie Country Park.

Nick was a promising young member of the Carnoustie Cycling Club who passed away in his sleep whilst on a training camp in Majorca in 1993. The trophy has been awarded every year since and Nicks parents have attended and supported every edition of the race.

The race is for 3rd and 4th category Seniors and Masters, plus 2nd, 3rd and 4th category Women and Junior riders. 60 places are available online to be selected by the organiser as detailed in the rider information section.

I will retain a further 20 places, pending permission to increase the field size, to be allocated at my discretion to under represented groups, principally women and junior riders, then from the waiting list.

Registration and more information can be found on the British Cycling website. Organisers website Angus Bike Chain CC.

Good Luck for those who were lucky enough to get a place.
COG Velo