The second weekend of September saw Round Two of the Wessex CX League take place. On the Saturday, a few of our riders participated in a new team relay supporting race.
Eve Carline, Reuben Harrington, Aneurin Gilbert and Billy Dyer represented our youth riders doing one lap each around a slightly shortened race course. They finished fourth after an excellent effort. Following the youths, our adult/junior team took to the course doing two separate laps each. Darren Pike, Benji Pike, Poppy Carline and Phil Carline had a brilliant race, finishing third. A great result prior to race day!
Come Sunday, we had a great many hit the course on a shadowy day. Luckily the rain held off until the m50s but didn’t linger either. The course—a flattish layout with a variety of corners, many bumps and a couple banks and technical features—grew muddier and sloppier throughout the day.
First off, were the U8s. Lucy Greenhalgh came sixth in the females, with Sunni Muriithi and Jordan Riley coming eighth and ninth respectively. In the U10s, Ella Greenhalgh finished third. Flo Boustred came fifth, Amie Williams sixth and Jess Barry in eleventh. Leighton Riley settled the U10’s podium with third. Joseph Lovegrove finished fifth, Joshua Marsden eleventh, Harrison Hough sixteenth, Wilfred Barlow seventeenth and Winston Dimech in nineteenth.
Next, our U12s: Emily Williams finished in sixth, as did Freddie Trosh. Theo Plumb came eighth and Reuben Lewis and James Sutton came eleventh and twelfth. Ruben Davies in seventeenth, Alfie Houghm in nineteenth and Rex Davies rounded off the field in twenty-first.
Then we entered the full course with the U14s and 16s. In the U14s, Eve Carline made the podium in second, with Alexis Barry in fifth and Ruby Boustred in thirteenth. Leeyo Muriithi and Billy Dyer came sixteenth and seventeenth respectively.
In the U16s, Marit Davidse finished seventh. Reuben Harrington just missed the podium but fought well, coming fourth. Adam Koperdan came fourteenth with Aneurin Gilbert not far behind in fifteenth. And that was it for the youths!
Next came the male juniors and M40s. Niclas Olley filled the podium in third, with Samuel Marcade in sixth, Benji Pike in seventh and Stanley Phillips in ninth. Andy Gardiner also made the podium with third place. Pete Boustred came fifteenth and Phil Wilks finished seventeenth. Our women’s race saw an inner-team battle between Emma Harrison and Poppy Carline. Emma came sixth in the U23s, and Poppy finished second junior.
In the M50s, Jon Hall came eleventh, just missing top ten, and Phil Connell finished eighteenth.
Overall, a great turn out last weekend at Fairthorne. We made a few podiums and hopefully we can keep this going.