BSCA Regional Cross Champs March 3rd

Kirklees Cycling Academy promoted the British Schools Regional Cyclo-Cross Championships at Spen Valley Sports College on Sunday. Cyclo-Cross is a winter sport so it was quite appropriate for the weather to be cold & wet which made it extremely tough for the 67 riders that competed.

Local riders were in the thick of the action with Dylan Boyes (Huddersfield Star Wheelers) winning the Under 7 Boys race & Henry Hollyman (Kirklees Cycling Academy) matching that result in the Under 9s. In the Under 9 Girls race Ella Hampson (Huddersfield Star Wheelers) was an impressive 3rd place.

 

The Under 11s race was a hotly contested affair with Pedalsport rider Matt Taylor getting the win closely followed by club mate Jenson Young, Holme Valley Wheeler Jim Brown completed the podium positions in 3rd, Ruby Boyes was 3rd Girl.

Isaac Shepherd (Holme Valley Wheelers) was 3rd in the Under 13s which was dominated by Jamie Ridehalgh who led from start to finish, Felicity Gledhill (Planet X) from Shepley was 1st Girl across the line & Tilly Brown (Holme Valley Wheelers) was 2nd in her first ever Cyclo-Cross race.

Full results on the BSCA Blog

Alastair Wareham’s winning form continued with victory in the Hull City Road Club Team Time Trial on Saturday. Wareham & Team Swift team mates Simon Beldon & Joel Wainman clocked an impressive 47min 45sec for the 25mile course at Beverley beating the 2nd place team, We Love Mountains, by almost 3 minutes.

An impressive turn out of local riders made the trip to a very wet Aintree for the Eddie Soens Memorial Handicap race on Saturday. Over 200 riders set off in 4 groups with the Elite group setting off last. Local youngsters Jake Womersley (Sportscover Altura RT) & Jacob Scott (Planet X) were getting stuck in alongside some of the top british based professional riders including former Team Sky rider Russell Downing who took the sprint ahead of Endura Racing team mates Scott Thwaites & Jonny McEvoy. Former Holme Valley Wheelers Stephen Robinson (3RT) was 48th with Womersley in 51st & Scott in 68th. Robinson’s team mate Danny Stocherro was best placed 4th Category rider in 91st

Former Huddersfield Star Wheeler James Sampson (Node 4 – Giordana Racing) was 5th in the CDNW for Elite, 1st, 2nd & 3rd Cat riders on the Pimbo circuit near Skelmersdale, Lancashire on Sunday. Sampson was part of an 8 man breakaway which broke clear of the bunch with 5 laps to go, his team mate Peter Williams won the race on his own after attacking in the closing stages of the 50 mile race.