Ye Old Hutton

Tonights installment of the KVRC time trial league swept into Old Hutton for Round 5 of the club series......
22' Degrees and warm moderate to strong cross winds did damage to the riders times, with every rider digging deep in section to make up time lost in other sections of the course.

Considering the challenging conditions some excellent times were logged across the field of riders and age categories.
Standout female riders Emma Wood and Amanda Howard tonight both logging excellent times and new personal bests.

Thanks again to all time keepers and Marshals 

KVRC Team Tour Day 2

The dawn of day two and the temperatures already rising rapidly and with stages 3 & 4 ahead of the Kent Valleys road team Duncan Orme, Campbell west & Tom Gibson.

The team with their sights set firmly on limiting time loss in the GC focusing their efforts on the team time trial, conditions couldn't have been much better for the stage with a light to fresh warm crosswind.  

Check out this video of the team time trial

                                     


Stage 4 saw only two Kent Valley riders starting as Tom Gibson due to the previous days crash suffered badly during the TTT and retried from the Ilkley tour.

The fast and furious stage 4 with its biting climbs saw some exciting racing in the lead group resulting in a sprint finish for the main GC contenders and the yellow jersey wearer.
KVRC riders Duncan Orme & Campbell West came through unscathed somewhat some time down on the main group.

Sun Cream & Tan Lines

The 2nd installment of KVRC Audax series today was blessed with almost continental conditions 26'C and light winds, true summer conditions.


Today's Audax started from its HQ at Kendal Rugby club and headed out towards Clitheroe, Lancashire before turning and making its way back through the amazing scenery of the Trough Of Bowland.

The next installment of the Audax series takes place on Sunday 5th June, further details can be found at KVRC 

KVRC Team Tour

The warm sunshine and high temperatures this week finally arrived just in time for the Ilkley CC stage race over in Yorkshire or some what a very continental feeling Yorkshire.
Today stages consisted of a short 1.5 mile prologue followed by a tough & challenging road race on the Penny Pot Lane circuit.
Temperatures continued to rise steadily throughout the day, for which may have been welcomed by spectators, but took it toll on a number of riders both on stage 1 & 2
KVRC's Tom Gibson, Duncan Orme & Campbell West all put in excellent performances in the prologue.
Misfortune struck later during the RR with Tom Gibson going down on the steep sweeping descent.
Luckily only to be greeted by a deep ditch thankfully escaping damage & mechanical's, just the loss of skin.

With all KVRC riders making it home safe some with more skin than others sights and thoughts turn towards making time up in the team time trial.