Sponsorship deal. (Kind of)

Since the last post I have attended the first and second Academy sessions of the new season. Exciting stuff I know :)

Since summer last year myself and Dad were researching into new gear, in particular a new race bike. We discovered Cielo Rosso a very locally based bike company owned and designed by the one and only Neil Watts.
Neil's name is one that is well renowned at Colchester Rovers CC as he has supplied many with race bikes built and sized to their likes.
Basically, we fired a few emails back and forth and established that Neil has a direct link with a frame manufacturer in Asia who lacquer and paint the frames with the Cielo Rosso branding and send them over to Neil, who then builds them up with whatever components you require. Simple.

With the S Works Venge as a favourite I asked if the manufacture of this frame was possible as Cielo Rosso had never produced such a frame. It was discovered that it was very possible and work began.

I'm very pleased to say that the finished product is a beauty. Have ridden it all season with no problems! Pictured is me and a Belgian wheel hugger at the Nottingham ETU race.

I was in need of a new trisuit that complied with the various ITU rules for the Nottingham ETU race so I suggested that the Cielo Rosso brand logo be printed alongside my name and country code to reach a wider audience.

Here is the finished suit

country sundays

Liverpool No Go

Met gwen! The upside to a disappointing weekend...

The Liverpool BTF junior champs was called off due to shocking weather conditions from an apparent hurricane which originated in America!

I was really gutted that the race was cancelled as I was looking forward to racing and trying to prove myself against the best of UK Juniors!

Above is myself within the athletes lounge with world no.1 Gwen Jorgenson :)

I'M BACK

Right, so after about two years of non existent posting I figured that summer is coming and what better time to start up the ol' blog again 😅

Okay so, a lot has happened since my last post. Most importantly that I am now competing as a Junior athlete in the British Super series and hope to race in the junior World Cup races over the following years!

With my training on course thought the winter I felt confident that I would have a solid start to the season this year but sadly a stupid accident that was pretty much my fault caused a broken elbow in January and training kind of stopped for a couple of weeks.

Nevertheless, I got back to almost full fitness and was due to race at the National Duathlon Champs in Corby but last minute notices of ITU regulations meant that my wheels were not allowed to be ridden in the race and with little time to borrow I decided to miss this one!

Next was the 'call up' back to Hetton Lyons Country Park- the venue of my first IRC Nationals event when I was 14!

I say 'the call up' because the race was a qualifier for the European Youth Relays somewhere in Russia!?

Obviously I was excited to race but a shocking swim getting well and truly battered resulted in a pretty terrible race!

Following this was the National Aquathlon Champs in Hyde park only last week and the first time racing with the 'big boys' of the Junior category!

Nerves and excitement levels were running high but poor nutrition leading up to the race resulted in another terrible swim and a run which I almost blacked out in:/ 

So I had a lot of work to do to build my confidence and energy levels back up for my most recent race (Blenheim Triathlon).

Blenheim has always been an enjoyable race for me but the hills are often what makes or breaks you. Racing with the elite seniors was awe inspiring as i was used to seeing them on TV so racing alongside was amazing.

The swim start was much cleaner than the previous two races and I emerged around mid pack.

Running into transition with this many guys was pretty hectic but I got in and out onto the bike well. The pace was relentless despite the hills but I managed to hold into the bike group and got onto the run feeling fresh whilst leaving my bike group behind and also catching some from the group ahead!

Final position was 24th which I am pretty pleased with against all of the older junior guys but as always there are areas of improvement!

My next race isn't for a few months so I will be posting pictures from races and filling you in on the training until then!

Ellz

Here's a few pics from Hyde park :)